From the Editor
From the Editor
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
By Evelyn Pyburn
The message that is conveyed in the marketplace whenever government funded subsidies are applied to any commodity is so glaring it is hard to imagine how so many – apparently learned experts – miss it so completely. Government subsidies scream to the high heavens that a product has no market viability. That is to say it is a money loser. It does not serve the market – consumers – in a profitable way – it costs more to produce than the value it generates. It is the very es...
By Evelyn Pyburn
So Billings, Montana has been noted as a place where people work hard.
Go...
By Evelyn Pyburn
It was quite disappointing to read the Governor’s Housing Task Force report ...
By Evelyn Pyburn
So, how dare a political candidate even mention the concept of privatization...
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
By Roger Koopman
If you happen to be at the state capitol during the coming session, you are likely to encounter Mutant Elephants in the hallways, restrooms and chambers. Although their footprint on the legislative process is immense, th...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
By Ian Vásquez
The United States has slipped in its ranking as a free country from 7th in 2000 to 17th in the tenth edition of the annual Human Freedom Index, which is co-published by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute. The 2024 repor...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
By Chris Cargill, Mountain States Policy Center
Typically, courts provide clarity. They do not exist to make or enforce law but rather interpret what the law says. Nothing more, nothing less.
But a week of tumultuous rulings in Montana has,...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
By Roger Koopman
I wonder if it ever dawns on all those well-paid, city-bred consultants who come in to run most of Montana’s major campaigns, that nobody is listening anymore? Oh, sure. There are the political junkies, left and ri...
Monday, October 21, 2024
Joe Mahon, Director, Regional Outreach Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
After turning south in 2023, agricultural producers in the Ninth District saw their earnings decline further through the middle of 2024, according to results from the F...
Monday, September 16, 2024
By Scott Lincicome,
Cato Institute,
In North Carolina, Kamala Harris called for a new federal law to ban “price gouging on food.” Such a law might be popular, but it would have, at best, no impact on grocery prices and might even make the p...
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Dear Editor,
I read the article about Montana suing over Obama care for noncitizens.
I own Maaco Collision Repair. Before Obama care, I could insure a whole family for under 600.00 a month for top of the line benefits.
Now, as you can se...
Friday, September 13, 2024
By Roger Koopman
“The Divine Knowledge has ebbed out of us, and we do not know enough to be free.”
Daniel Webster
Have you noticed? When the election season rolls around, nobody talks about freedom anymore. Sure,...
Friday, August 23, 2024
By Chris Cargill, Kendall Cotton, and Derek Oestreicher
The Center Square
Families across the country have long benefited from the ability to attend a public charter school if they determined that was the best option for their children. Mon...
Monday, July 22, 2024
By Roger Koopman
Some may consider it mere coincidence that over the past forty years, the Montana Supreme Court has struck down almost every conservative ballot measure (referenda and initiatives) that has come before it, while upholding ever...
