From the Editor

From the Editor
Wed, Nov 06, 2024
By Evelyn Pyburn So Billings, Montana has been noted as a place where people work hard. Good job! For all the things we are noted for this is perhaps the best. It’s been my observation over the years that human beings in general seem not only to like to work, but we are hard-wired to work. Whether we intend it or not, hardworking people thrive better than those who don’t, can’t or won’t work. And, not only do we as individuals do better — in our standard of living, mentally and p...
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...
By Evelyn Pyburn The price of something conveys a message. Looking at the price of a can o...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2024 Press Room
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 Press Room
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 Press Room
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 Press Room
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 Dennis Pyburn
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 Press Room
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 Press Room
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...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024 Press Room
 By William Haupt III, The Center Square “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.”     ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Press Room
Dear Editor I recently heard that Yellowstone County is considering increasing the size of the Board of County Commissioners from three (3) member to five (5). This was done in Ravalli County, through our Local Government Review process in 200...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Press Room
Much of the growth in Bozeman is due to the influx of illegal migrants, which makes it impossible to get an accurate account for the growth of the Spanish-speaking community in Bozeman because the majority of people are undocumented, reports a Sp...