The Winter Olympics are here, and I’d like to congratulate our three Montana athletes who will compete and represent our state and nation, as well as many other athletes with Montana connections who will be competing. The Olympics represents a unique opportunity for all nations to come together. (more…) Continue Reading →
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America gets a mulligan
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Will somebody please give me a mulligan? I know my life hasn’t been everything it ought to be. I have procrastinated, drank to excess, used illegal drugs and jaywalked. I have used foul language, lost my temper and indulged in gluttony. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Donald Trump, Family Research Council, Tony Perkins
Montana Viewpoint: The Murdochs—maybe it’s in the genes
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In Australia the name of Keith Murdoch is revered as the man who had Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops (known collectively as “Anzac”) saved from further annihilation in the World War I bloodbath which was the battle for Gallipoli. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Anzacs, Gallipoli, Murdochs
7 certain signs of clickbait — No. 5 will shock you!
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Editor’s note: Occasional correspondent Bruce Lohof typically writes about politics and international affairs. Today he turns his attention to a more mundane but no less maddening subject. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Clickbait
Opinion: State law needlessly limits abortion access
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If you are like a lot of Montanans, your primary healthcare provider is an advanced practice clinician, not a doctor. But under Montana law that same clinician may not be able to provide an abortion, a safe and common medical procedure. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, abortion, ACLU, Supreme Court
Feels like a desert coming on
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Newspapers may be in their death throes, but they aren’t dying quietly. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Billings Gazette, Great Falls Tribune, T.J. Gilles
Opinion: Here’s how you can help stop domestic violence
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Montana is pretty cool. Montana is a state that values independence, hard work and rugged individualism. And there are a lot of things we get right. But, we need to not shut our eyes to the things we get wrong. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Beth Hoover, Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Zinke: Trump’s worst Cabinet member?
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Henry David Thoreau said, “That government is best which governs not at all.” Our nation’s experiments in minimalist governance show that Thoreau may have been right: We could be better off with no government than with the one we’ve got. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Department of the Interior, National Park System Advisory Board, National Parks Conservation Association, Ryan Zinke, sage grouse, wild horses
Opinion: Time to bridge the broadband gap in Indian Country
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The digital divide is real and it’s widening. Nowhere is this more true than on our reservations around the country. The vast majority of those living on tribal lands have no options to access broadband internet, and the longer this problem persists, the further they get left behind. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Federal Communications Commission, Indian Country, Jason Small, TV white spaces
Montana Viewpoint: Once, patriotism trumped politics
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When I read the news that the United States government had shut down, my first thought was, “How can they tell?” Then I read that there was some worry that the national parks would be closed during the shut down, but since I thought we were going to close the national parks anyway, that hardly seemed like news. (more…) Continue Reading →
