By BOB WALKER and MATT BOWSER Guest columnists Montana voters know that we’ll lose our outdoor way of life if we don’t fund it. Some lawmakers, though, seem fine with letting our parks, trails, working lands, access, and outdoor way of life go belly-up regardless of what voters want. To defend our outdoor way of […]

I am very concerned about the potential passing of HB 279 by our Legislature. I am a parent, teacher and have experience in both the public schools and private schools. My children have been enrolled at times in both public and private schools, and there is no reason why any individual sending their child to […]

Legislating bounties to kill wolves or trap them inhumanly is bad for Montana’s $3.7 billion tourist economy. Visitors spend $10 million dollars daily on average, generating over $265 million in state and local tax revenues. Yet legislators in Helena are considering eight bills that would severely reduce Montana’s wolf population—a reason many tourists visit our […]

Have I got this right — there is proposed legislation which will force the rate payers (customers) of Northwestern Energy (NWE) to guarantee unlimited future liability of the company should NWE go through with the purchase of the Colstrip Plant. This is like buying a Chevy and finding out you are responsible for future debts […]

Lawrence Rutherford said it would be interesting if all the T haters would take a moment to express their happiness. Well, it didn’t take long for me and here it is. Firstly, I don’t have the space to respond to the litany of ills that you are apparently blaming on the Biden administration, so let’s […]

White displacement is slow but real. White folk can either fight it or welcome our non-white successors with trust and optimism. Rather than filling integrated swimming pools with dirt, deliberately breaking up minority families, denying broad swathes of citizens their constitutional rights, throwing up barriers to education, health care and justice and perversely deploying our […]

By GARY BUCHANAN Guest Columnist Senate Bill 379 is a bill that is anti-jobs and anti-economic development. For a legislature supposedly focused on the governor’s rightful concerns for entrepreneurship, it’s a real step backward. Higher electricity bills will harm efforts to attract businesses to Montana. I support helping Colstrip, but not at the expense of […]

Unlike the current administration, the Trump people (still around we hear) are indeed responsible for the four year “totalitarian nightmare” mentioned in a beyond belief recent letter. They are for sure those who recently embraced “the matrix of delusion and blissful ignorance.” Senate Majority Leader Schumer rightly said that President Biden “inherited a mess on […]

Bozeman Health is a nonprofit tax exempt hospital and is required to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years to identify major health problems and gaps in services. In 2020, the CHNA again identified mental health as the number one priority health need locally. The lack of inpatient psychiatric care at the […]

By AMANDA CAHILL and KRISTIN PAGE-NEI Guest columnists An overwhelming number of Montana voters are concerned about tobacco use. So why do some members of the Montana Legislature continue to push bills on behalf of tobacco companies and against the wishes and health of Montanans? For example, Senate Bill 398, sponsored by Sen. Jason Ellsworth, actually […]