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Opinion

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Updated 2 weeks ago

Walt McDonald, Jean Turnage and the human history of Public Law 280 on the Flathead Reservation

I remember my first day in District Court. The case involved a tribal youth who had gotten in trouble for someth...

Updated 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
Legislators need to fully fund senior long-term care

Legislators passed and the Governor signed bills to spend $1 billion, most of it going into the pockets of our wealthiest citizens who earn over $500,000 a year. We can certainly afford to do the right thing for o...

Updated 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
Who’s behind push to change selenium standards?

There are no benefits to Montana to be gained from weakening our water quality standards. The mining company is Canadian. Its mines are in Canada, its taxes are all paid to the B.C. and Canadian governments. The ...

Updated 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
Bond would help prep PHS students for the present and future

According to the U.S. Department of Education, a “skills gap among jobs that require either a high school diploma, postsecondary certificate, or associate’s degree ... presents a barrier to American economic comp...

Updated 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
Montana Viewpoint: Institutions and Constitutions

You will hear people say that we need to protect our “institutions” in America. What on earth does that mean?

Updated 1 day, 20 hours ago
Montana Viewpoint: Institutions and Constitutions

You will hear people say that we need to protect our “institutions” in America. What on earth does that mean?

Updated 1 week ago
Ice arena benefit "overwhelming community endorsement"

We’d like to thank everyone who helped make our March 10 Mission Valley Ice Arena Fundraiser at Glacier Brewery such a success.

Updated 1 week ago
SB 458 comes with moral, financial cost

For over an hour and a half, over 40 Montanans – overwhelmingly young Montanans – showed up to the Capitol to express in detail the suffering and pain that SB 458 will cause them.

Updated 1 week ago
Bond will give Polson’s elementary students space to flourish

Did you know that students of Linderman Elementary have not had a full-size school library since the old gym’s roof collapsed in 2018?

Updated 2 weeks ago
Protect our visionary constitution

Montana’s Constitution has served us well for over 50 years. It is one of the reasons we have the amazing state that we and our families are blessed to enjoy.

Updated 2 weeks ago
Polson Schools: The trouble with mods

In case you hadn’t heard, residents of the Polson High School and Elementary School Districts will have the opportunity to vote in an election on school bonds this spring, and the Polson School Improvement Commit...

Updated 2 weeks ago
Proposed amendment amounts to constitutional witchcraft

A Montana state representative is interested in this witch hunt business, too, and is proposing a change to Montana’s Constitution to help it along. It differs from the witch hunts of the 1600s a little bit, but ...

Updated 3 weeks ago
Elementary mods pose safety hazards

When an organization – a business, a non-profit, a family – gets too large for its space, the most logical thing to do is move to a bigger space or build an addition on the existing space. For Polson School Distr...

Updated 3 weeks ago
Republican roots and the politics of party

“The Democrats killed two of my brothers.” That was the reply my nine-year-old father received from his great grandmother on her rural Iowa front porch when he asked her why she was such a strong Republican.

Updated 4 weeks ago
Malice, lies and market share

In a Montana Viewpoint article a month ago called “Marketing Anger,” I wrote about the prevalence of anger as an economic force as well as a political force....