From the Editor
From the Editor
Wed, Sep 13, 2023
By Evelyn Pyburn
I just read a reference to “the power of the boycott” – suggesting that people are just discovering it.
It’s kind of amusing that this should be a surprise to anyone. The power of a boycott is nothing more than consumers making choices. It is the very foundation of a free market system that we should all know and understand. Any one in business who doesn’t know that the ultimate decision-maker is the consumer is not long to remain in business.
A boycott is just a lo...
By Evelyn Pyburn
Save us from those who want to protect us.
The 12-year-old girl from Red ...
By Evelyn Pyburn
As jobs go begging in Montana people are often asking why. Where are the wor...
By Evelyn Pyburn
The news recently held a report that fossil fuels are not good for human lif...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
By Ronda Wiggers, Montana State Director for National Federation of Independent Business
Montana Main Street businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs have endured a lot the last three years. More than 90% of Montana’s businesses are considered ‘s...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
By Lawrence Reed
One hundred years ago—on August 2, 1923—President Warren G. Harding died suddenly while on a trip to America’s West (which included a stop in Butte, by the way). A few hours later, while vacationing at his family’s farm in Ply...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
By Victor Skinner, The Center Square
Rising interest rates and construction costs, along with demand for more affordable options, pushed new home builders to shift focus in 2022, according to recent analysis.
Microdata from the Survey...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
By Lawrence Reed, Director of Frontier Institute
“On this important question, the verdict is in and it is definitive: The one ingredient that makes the most difference in educational outcomes is parental involvement.”
Of all the i...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
By Jim Atchison
As the Executive Director of Southeastern Montana Development (SEMDC), I wanted to state that in my opinion, Colstrip is Changing – – – Not Closing! At least if Common Sense had a vote. As an economic developm...
Monday, May 22, 2023
By John Hines, NorthWestern Energy Vice President, Supply/Montana Government Affairs
The facts don’t lie. Rhetoric disputing those facts doesn’t add up.
That fact is NorthWestern Energy doesn’t have enough 24/7, on-demand generation to serv...
Monday, May 22, 2023
By Lawrence Reed
“His name was John Bozeman. His short life is a tale of frontier entrepreneurship.”
One of the most interesting exports from the state of Georgia to Montana was the namesake for the Treasure State’s fourth largest cit...
Monday, May 22, 2023
By Tu-Uyen Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota
This year’s construction season is expected to be leaner for a significant number of construction firms in the Ninth District compared with last year’s, according to a recent Minneapolis Fed s...
Monday, April 17, 2023
By Senator Steve Daines
Over the past two years, Montanans watched the President’s attack on oil, coal and natural gas bring our nation to the brink of an all-out energy emergency.
Gas prices rose to more than $5 a gallon and man...
Sunday, April 16, 2023
By Lawrence W. Reed
“Montanans can be rightfully proud of the state’s direct connection to James J. Hill, one of American history’s greatest entrepreneurs.”
When Canadian-born James J. Hill died in 1916 at the age of 77, he left a monumenta...
