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Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Chairlift: Six little words

Last Wednesday was one of those sublime days on The Big.

Updated 3 days, 13 hours ago
Montana’s Nuclear Future

Montana has historically played an important part in US energy transitions throughout its one hundred thirty-five-year history.

Updated 3 days, 13 hours ago
Whitefish Council compensation could be funded by a tax increase

If you voted “yes” to city council compensation on the November ballot, did you ever consider it would have to be funded with a tax increase?

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
Letter to Montana citizens and businesses that rely on Amtrak

On Jan. 20, the Federal Railroad Administration released a report to Congress titled, “Amtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study.”

Updated 1 week, 3 days ago
Save our wolves

Wildlife management has no place in politics.

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Create Youth Advisory Council to engage young people

During last week’s Whitefish Community Development Board meeting, students from Mr. Webb’s A.P. Government class presented solutions to problems facing Whitefish as part of the Vision Whitefish Growth Policy Update…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Welcome to the Senate

Following my fourth term in the Montana House, I faced either political extinction, as term limits in Montana limit the number of terms served for legislators and state office holders, or a run for a newly configur…

Updated 3 weeks, 3 days ago
The sickness of wolf trapping

Wolf trappers and their supporters share in their hatred, cruelty and violence toward wolves.

Updated 3 weeks, 3 days ago
CFAC: three ways EPA’s decision fails us all

While the EPA’s Record of Decision recently issued for the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. Superfund site is dismaying, EPA’s failure to do so without actionably considering public concerns and numerous technical issue…

Updated 1 month ago
Proud to have put students first

Serving as your state superintendent has been an honor.

Updated 1 month ago
Chairlift: Automotive appreciation

I'm in a minority of sorts.

Updated 1 month ago
A dirty manger

I applaud County Commissioners Randy Brodehl and Pam Holmquist for standing strong against any further encroachment of socialism in Flathead County operations.

Updated 1 month ago
Seek and ye shall find

The only control I have in life is over myself.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
President Jimmy Carter a moral compass for our times

My wife and I took our daughters to Disney World in 1997, and after doing so took a quick side trip into southern Georgia to visit the Andersonville Stockade where our Civil War ancestor was held in the rebel priso…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
County commissioners should reject funding

Our county commissioners have been under a lot of public pressure to accept money that could be used to help people, who would otherwise not be able, to attain home ownership.