Sometime soon, you may be asked to sign a petition to put the Montana Locker Room Privacy Act on the ballot in November 2018. Caution: Cogitate before signing. (more…) Continue Reading →
Decks clear for Montana bathroom battle
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Opinion: Free market health care, anyone?
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Steve Daines, Montana’s junior U.S. senator, has voted—again—to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He’d voted for repeal on three dozen earlier occasions so I presume that he’s against the ACA. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Affordable Care Act, Congress, Steve Daines
Opinion: What really matters in the healthcare ‘debate’
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“You guys, I just left the doctor’s office and I’m freaking out.”
Thus began my daughter Molly’s announcement to my husband and me last September that the baby she had long wanted and expected in February would in fact be three babies. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Affordable Care Act, Healthcare
Daines a shy flower in healthcare debate
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I was complaining to a friend, as is my wont, about Steve Daines, Montana’s media-shy representative in the U.S. Senate. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Donald Trump, Jon Tester, Obamacare, Steve Daines
Montana Viewpoint: Calling foul on unlawful ‘forfeiture’
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As a young man, I remember seeing highway signs in the South that said, “Warning, Speed Trap Ahead.” These were not put up by the highway departments. They were paid for by the American Automobile Association. Typically, and quite legally, the speed limit would suddenly change from 60 to 25. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Civil forfeiture, Jeff Sessions, Kelly McCarthy
Bias hides in eyes of biased beholder
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If you are among the dwindling few who still believe journalism is an honorable profession, proceed with caution. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Donald Trump, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tim Groseclose
Opinion: Tax reform? How about giving Plan B a try?
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I wonder if, earlier this month, Montana’s congressional delegation was listening when Steve Bannon, disrupter-in-chief in the Trump White House, suggested raising taxes on the wealthy to defray the costs of substantial middle- and working-class tax cuts. Bannon’s balloon was quickly pricked by others in the White House: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he’d “never heard Steve mention that,” adding that, in any case, a higher top tax rate isn’t on the table. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Donald Trump, Forbes, Steve Bannon, Tax reform
Sinclair brings conservative bias to Montana
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If you are fed up with liberal bias in the news, take heart. Conservative bias is on its way. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, KCFW, KECI, KTVM, Marist, Pew Research Center, Shorenstein Center, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Montana Viewpoint: Remembering Uncle Davey
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I don’t know if you need a break from politics, but I sure as heck do, so this is about my mother’s Uncle Davey. My mother’s parents were Canadian, from southern Ontario, but her father had somehow wound up owning a hardware store in a small town in North Dakota, so that’s where she was born. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, North Dakota, Ontario
Going for fresh start in new America
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The Fourth of July. Time to focus. (more…) Continue Reading →
