Category: Opinion
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USDA report on beef prices good first step, but…
The Montana Farm Bureau, which along with state Farm Bureaus, had called for investigation into price disparities between prices paid to ranchers and beef prices at the grocery store, was pleased to see the USDA has released a report on the issue. However, the state’s largest agricultural organization is still awaiting the Department of Justice’s…
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SBE Comments on Freeloaders of US Innovation
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) president & CEO Karen Kerrigan issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) regarding an International Price Index (IPI) for drugs, which imposes foreign-based price controls on U.S. pharmaceuticals, along with the move to develop rules to allow for drug importation: “Many countries across…
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Letter to the Editor – Paulson
Rosendale stands for life It is critical that our lone representative in Congress be a voice for the voiceless and stand up for the most vulnerable in our society—especially the unborn. Matt Rosendale has a long track record of being unabashedly pro-life. In the Montana legislature, he was a vocal advocate for pro-life legislation, and stood for the rights of the unborn…
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Endless Litigation
By Aaron Johnson, Western Energy Alliance Last month, we reported that Judge Morris in Montana and Judge Bush in Idaho vacated leases in Wyoming, over the objections of the State of Wyoming and Western Energy Alliance who intervened in defense of the Interior Department. Another month, another ruling by activist Judge Morris vacating yet more lease…
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Andrew Glynn is Feeling Proud.
May 8 at 8:59 pm Chef’s log day eleventy four, day 5 post quarantine. Parking lot is full, guests are dining 6′ apart, social distancing is being adhered to, my dining room is full, and the take away meals keep on coming. 45 days of plating in styrofoam boxes and aluminum half pans has been…
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$2 Trillion to the Rescue
By Dan McCaleb, Center Square The U.S. House approved a historic $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that will send billions of dollars directly to Americans and provide hundreds of billions more for businesses, health care systems and others impacted by the pandemic that has crippled the economy. It is by far the largest relief package…
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Op-Ed: Not a happy birthday for the First Amendment
by William Haupt III, The Center Square “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” – Martin Luther King, Washington D.C., 1964 The right to petition for redress of grievances was the most…
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More Jobs
By Bethany Blankley, Market Square The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in November according to the latest numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The joblessness rate also reached another 50-year low. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November. Job growth has averaged 180,000 per month so far…
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Montana Ranks 16th: Freedom, Base of Economic Strength
By Bethany Blankley, Central Square Montana’s economic freedom demonstrated the very slightest of improvements over the past year, according to the 2019 Economic Freedom of North America report. Historically, economic freedom has been declining in North America, according to a new report published by the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute in partnership with…
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Medicaid Expansion = “Medicare for All Lite”
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square A new report by the nonpartisan think tank The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) says that Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act is like “Medicare for All Lite,” which has created nothing but “disastrous results.” If the remaining non-expansion states were to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, FGA argues,…