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Opinion

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Updated 2 months, 1 week 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 1 year, 4 months ago
What to know about summer swimmer's itch

Here in Montana, itchy skin has always been an unavoidable consequence when enjoying the great outdoors. From peeling sunburns to mosquito bites, many of the inflamed epidermal threats we experience are widely know…

Updated 1 year, 4 months ago
Montana Republicans expanded access to affordable health care

The United States’s health care system is a mess of complex regulations and layers of bureaucracy. It’s also expensive. But Republicans in the Montana Legislature have made great strides in recent years to address …

Updated 1 year, 4 months ago
Running for new Senate district

I am very excited to announce I filed as a candidate for the newly formed Senate District 45 for the upcoming 2024 election.

Updated 1 year, 4 months ago
Divisive rhetoric drives Montanans apart

Newspapers recently ran a column written by right-wing Montana politician, Sen. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, hitting the standard left/right divisive talking points about “woke” politics and tying any Montanan further lef…

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Food bank facing higher costs than ever

The Community Food Bank of Mineral County would like to thank Mineral County Residents and those who partner with us in our efforts to “End Hungry Tomorrows, Today."

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Lincoln-Reagan Dinner

With about 112 in attendance, the Mineral County Republican Central Committee held their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Saturday evening at the Mineral County Shooting Sports Building.

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Who's WHO?

Who's WHO?

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Plains students raising funds for Skills USA conference

Many students from Plains High School recently participated in the Montana Skills USA state competition.

Updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Democrats deliver; Republicans waste session

The 68th session of the State Legislature has ended, but the harm done by a Republican supermajority drunk on power will continue to be felt for a long time.

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
GOP plan addresses the looming debt crisis

There’s dignity and honor in work.

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Laws as reminders of the reason they exist

Every little once in a while I am reminded that laws are created to protect us from ourselves, or more particularly from our faulty memories, or from forgetting history.

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Letters to the editor April 19

Letters to the editor April 19

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Hunting, fishing and trapping part of Montana heritage

As it currently reads, Montana’s Constitution states “the Opportunity to harvest wild fish and wild game animals is a Heritage that shall be forever preserved.”

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Legislative update from Rep. Loge

We are down to the crunch time this week. By the time you see this, all appropriation bills, revenue bills and referenda will have had to pass to the other chamber.