Opinion
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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....