Political parties liable for the damage they cause A political party that backs a candidate is like a business that brands a product. The brand is an implicit guarantee of the product’s quality. When a brand-name product causes harm, the business becomes liable for damages. Consumers then become leery of anything that business markets. America […]

Montana voters recently voted in an extreme anti-wildlife and public lands Legislature. They also voted in Greg Gianforte as our next governor, thus ending the checks and balances we had enjoyed over the past 16 years. What this action will allow can be seen by the past history of the new governor. With a lifetime […]

World waiting on Congress to understand emergency People struggling here and around the world have been waiting for months for Congress to pass an emergency COVID-19 response bill. What is Congress not understanding about this emergency? Projections are that global hunger will double, and thousands of infants will suffer or die of severe malnutrition. An […]

It began with the Y2K conspiracies. Followed by 9/11. The longest war. Tea Party righteousness. A half-white president. A delusional president. A plague. Then the Montana Republican party’s win-at-any-cost surrender to wealthy out-of-state candidates buying personal legacies. The fact is: Our state government is about to be run by a decidedly bent-to-the-right pack of contrarians […]

If I have learned anything the last four years it is how peer pressure makes people do the dumbest things. For example, many Republican state legislators showed up at the Capitol without masks even though similar actions by Trump’s supporters landed several people in the hospital, and even killed Herman Cain. Do Montana’s Republicans think […]

This letter is in regard to the article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on Nov. 19, “Local lawmaker shares controversial social media posts.” State GOP Rep Kerry White is busy posting false statements about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in which President-elect Joe Biden won. He is also calling for all Democrats to […]

For most vulnerable, we have to do better Montana This is an open letter to those community members, business owners and especially, elected leaders who are ignoring the recommendations and regulations of our state’s public health experts. The greatest burden of sacrifice during this public health crisis is being placed upon: • Our health care […]

As a lifelong Democrat, I would like to congratulate Sen. Daines on his reelection. Although I did not vote for him and have fundamental differences of opinion on policy, I recognize that the people of Montana voted him into another six-year term in the U.S. Senate. It is the fact that we have free and […]

Between Trump and virus, nation has learned nothing If we have learned anything in this past year it is that we have learned nothing. Millions of Americans have chosen to put more faith in ridiculous improbable lies than in the harsh truth of reality. Don’t like the COVID pandemic? Call it a hoax. Don’t like Democrats? […]

By MIKE GARRITY AND CHAD HANSON Guest columnists Dr. Chad Hanson and his colleagues conducted an ambitious scientific study on wildfire behavior and trends — one of the largest ever to analyze the factors that drive such fires. The study involved three decades of data and tens of millions of acres of forest fires across […]