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Over the past two decades both parties in the U.S. Senate have threatened to repeal the century-old filibuster by use of the so-called “nuclea…
Unlike many other bills being excreted by the Legislature these days, Senate Bill 110 is very subtle in the way it reveals the dysfunction in …
Montana is currently undergoing its 67th legislative session. How invested are you as a resident of Montana in the decisions being made in you…
With all the debate about guns, the 2nd Amendment, people’s gun rights, assault weapons, etc.,etc., I have to come out of the shadows and expr…
Opinion: Censoring free speech is antithetical to the purpose and long-standing tradition of college campuses.
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Guest view: We need common sense applied to gun laws
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Guest view: Legislature working to protect constitutional rights of Montana college students
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Guest view: Legislature is not qualified to manage wildlife
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Remember, the swizzle stick must be pink
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Guest view: Don’t force Montana police to utilize a flawed federal tool
House Bill 223 would compel Montana cops to utilize a flawed federal tool, immigration detainer requests. This bill has been flying through th…
As the government closest to the people, local governments can often serve the public best. But local governments can also impose the most dir…
I retired from my job as a University of Montana faculty member at the end of last month. I did so with a heavy heart, having thoroughly enjoy…
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
Episode 8: Also discussed is whether boycotts are an effective tactic to get companies to change their policies and why we should consider inc…
Selena Not Afraid. Ashley Heavyrunner Loring. Kaysera Stops Pretty Places.
From Ohio, I have been watching the extremist anti-labor bills that have been introduced in the Montana Legislature with great concern.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Back in 1986, that’s what Ronald Reagan considered “the nine most terrifying words in the Engl…
So-called right-to-work bills introduced in this lamentable legislative session meant to maim or kill public employee unions are not really ab…
Ochenski opinion: Montana is still paying the price for its own experience with Texas-style deregulation brought to us by the Republicans abou…
Walter Schwietzer had a problem with his tractor in the middle of last year’s haying season. It wasn’t a complicated issue, but because softwa…
Twenty-six days. That’s how long it took legislators to resuscitate legislation that supports transferring public land to the state, an idea M…
Congresswoman Deb Haaland is the right person to lead the Department of Interior.
Since winning the Legislature in 2011, Republicans have introduced multiple pieces of legislation undermining Montana’s great hunting and fish…
I volunteer with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan, non-profit, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address …
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Medicaid is working for Montana. This is the key finding from two recently released reports by ABMJ Consulting and Manatt Health.
The Montana Legislature is proposing a bill that will put our youth at risk. Senate Bill 99 will make sex education in the schools an opt-in p…
It was a “hazy shade of winter” kind of morning. The Civic Center sign on Harrison showed -6. Twenty-five of our parishioners and I arrived to…
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin on a Saturday night in 2013. The next morning, I went to church wearing a hoodie.