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A bridge in Bigfork is just as important as Baltimore
For hours after the tragic accident that took down a bridge over the Pabsco River in Baltimore, our nation sat tog…
Letters to the editor Jan. 28
In Helena, the Legislature is just starting to gain some steam. Bills are beginning to move through the House. Of note last week was the K-12 school funding bill which had a hearing in the House education committee…
Letters to the editor Jan. 27
I had a lot of errands to run yesterday so I was in and out of a lot of businesses. I decided, at the beginning of the day, to keep count how often someone told me to “have a nice day”. Thirty-six times during the …
America's working people finally get attention
If you want to get the attention of the powers that be, you have to do something radical to call attention to yourself. A couple of years ago working-class Americans did that by electing Donald Trump as president. …
Wildlife conference is an American Prairie Reserve slideshow
The American Prairie Reserve (APR) is presently engaged in a major publicity effort to advance its acceptance in the Lewistown area by supporting a conference to teach area landowners how to live with wildlife.
Focused on getting the people's work done
The 66th Montana Legislative Session began Jan. 7 and based on the 3,101 bills that have been submitted so far, lawmakers will be working in overdrive. For Democrats, top priorities include keeping health care acce…
Letters to the editor Jan. 23
In a not-so-subtle rebuke to Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Jon Tester told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell recently that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can end the government shutdown by sche…
Letters to the editor Jan. 20
Just a few days ago, the Daily Inter Lake’s “100 Years Ago in the Flathead” remembered an article in the Inter Lake from 1919 that lamented the number of frivolous laws proposed during the Montana Legislature that …
Do you know where your beef is from?
Let’s start with a question. Where are you sitting right now? Are you reading this newspaper in your office or your home? Now, pick up any object around you. Chances are good that whatever you have in your hand — p…
Change of attitude needed to lower health-care costs
My critique of the KRMC goal for health care that maximizes revenue rather than lowering costs used the Digestive Health Institute and the Orthopedic Clinic as examples. I thank Dr. Jaffe for the content of his res…
We can lower the cost of medication - here's how
Everyone agrees that the high cost of prescription medications is a huge issue, but there hasn’t been a serious attempt to solve the problem in Montana. We’re changing that by bringing forward legislation we estima…
Letters to the editor Jan. 17
Sen. Scott Sales calls $8 million “trivial” the amount he thinks Montana’s taxpayers should contribute to President Trump’s border wall. So let’s do the math. If $8 million is “trivial,” then $16 million is “someth…
Preserving free elections is everyone's business
Free and fair elections are not partisan issues. Whether it’s imposing poll taxes in the Jim Crow South or rigging voting machines in Richard Daley’s Chicago, whenever public officials use the powers of government …
Letters to the editor Jan. 14
The proposed CSKT Water Compact (S. 262 bloated up in Sen. Tester’s Senate Bill 3013) violates the U.S. Constitution, Montana Constitution, and CSKT Tribal Constitution. Citizens should just shut up.
Montana businesses can't afford inaction on LWCF
In Montana, the business of outdoor recreation is big business. Whether you are REI or a local main street operation selling gear and goods to communities who thrive on our outdoor amenity lifestyle, you are contri…
Get our government operating again
As all of us are too painfully aware, we are in the midst of another government shutdown to the immediate detriment of about 800,000 individuals — 420,000 working temporarily without pay and 380,000 on furlough who…