From the Editor
From the Editor
Fri, Mar 21, 2025
By Evelyn Pyburn
Unleashing the American citizen — that’s what Trump is doing.
It’s the act that built America — allowing citizens to pursue their own happiness, dreams and ambitions. How some of Trump’s actions will impact our economy and relations with other nations may not be readily evident, but the fact is it cannot be worse than the smothering of citizens by government debt and regulations that inhibit the glorious ability of average everyday citizens to do great things.
Presi...
By Evelyn Pyburn
It must be said. People losing jobs — as many federal government...
By Evelyn Pyburn
The message that is conveyed in the marketplace whenever government funded s...
By Evelyn Pyburn
So Billings, Montana has been noted as a place where people work hard.
Go...
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Monday, April 07, 2025
Pondering what human-made items will look like millions of year from now as our descendants search for “technfossils”, Sci News wondered what wind turbine blades would look like.
They said, “The enormous wind turbine blades . . . are made of m...
Monday, April 07, 2025
Marking the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech.
By Lawrence W. Reed, Foundation for Economic Freedom
In St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, delegates from around the colony gathered to discuss matters that wou...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
By Roger Koopman
At an early age, we taught our kids to learn from others and to think for themselves. I still remember telling one child, “Truth doesn’t fly in flocks. You need to seek and find it on your own. And never be a...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Calling the election results in November, “nothing short of seismic,” Robert Bryce in a substack.com opinion piece, stated, “While this race was about many things, one issue lurked throughout: climate policy.”
Election results “show that...
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Some sales ideas that at first glance may seem counter intuitive were recently recommended in Inc. magazine. The ideas are based upon human psychology and their instinct to assure that they are in control.
For example, right up front, tell the...
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...
