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Opinion

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Updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tester's attacks on veteran-run business are shameful

Bridger Aerospace started with four veterans in a barn in Montana. Our next mission became using battlefield techn…

Updated 6 days, 10 hours ago
Pause on federal funding impacts local services

The Montana Community Action Network (MCAN) represents the 10 Community Action agencies who carry out programs aimed to help Montanans experiencing economic hardships, including the elderly and disabled.

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
The legislative process

We have completed week three of the legislative session with bills on the move in both houses.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Loge stands ground on rules debate

Greetings from Helena. While being new to the Senate, I am a more senior legislator. I've spent my life clearing paths, literally plowing snow on our highways, mending fences on the ranch, logging and attending imp…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The case for prescribed fire

As forest research shows, the Rocky Mountain region’s natural history reveals a pattern of fire occurrence extending from time immemorial, meaning before human memory, with drastic curtailment in the early 1900s wh…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
I’m honored to serve; here’s my mission

Montana, earning the chance to serve you as your next U.S. Senator is truly the greatest honor of my life. To those who voted for me, thank you. To those who did not, I’m ready to serve you too. In the military, I …

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Thanks to all who have supported MCCF

First, I’d like to thank the many volunteers and donors to an organization I’ve been involved in for over thirty years, the Mineral County Community Foundation (MCCF).

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Teacher talk: 'What is the best thing about being a teacher?'

Superior schoolteachers share “What is the best thing about being a teacher?”

Updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Elena Evans for PSC

We are retired Montanans living in all seven counties within District 4 of the Public Service Commission. Most of us are on fixed incomes. Some of us are Republicans and some are Democrats. But all of us are voting…

Updated 4 months ago
Tranel represents the Biden-Harris economic failures

It’s the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Updated 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Judge endorses Wilson for Supreme Court justice

It is a common refrain that voters know little to nothing about judicial candidates. It is for this reason that I am sharing my experiences with Judge Dan Wilson, candidate for the Montana Supreme Court.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
U.S. health care system is broken

It’s clear that Sen. Jon Tester is a desperate man doing desperate things, including spreading outright lies, fearmongering and misleading Montanans — particularly on health care.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Sheehy’s plan hurts rural hospitals

I am a retired CPA and former CFO of hospitals in Whitefish, Dillon and Miles City. In addition I am a past president of the Montana chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Heath care workers support Sheehy

As health care providers, hospital leaders, nurses, and support staff who serve or have served rural Montana communities, we condemn the recent television ads and full-page advertisements by Jon Tester’s campaign a…

Updated 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Montana Viewpoint: Respect

I asked a friend of mine if he had ever known a man named Bat O’Callahan who lived in Trout Creek years ago and was married to my good friend Jessie O’Callahan. Whether that marriage ended because Bat left town or …