US Freedom Level Drops
By Ian Vásquez The United States has slipped in its ranking as a free country from 7th in 2000 to…
Category: Opinion
Montana Court Oversteps And Makes a Mess
By Chris Cargill, Mountain States Policy Center Typically, courts provide clarity. They do not exist to make or enforce law…
Turn off the politicians and Listen to yourself
By Roger Koopman I wonder if it ever dawns on all those well-paid, city-bred consultants who come in to run…
Agriculture Faces a Continued Decline in 2024
Joe Mahon, Director, Regional Outreach Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis After turning south in 2023, agricultural producers in the Ninth…
What Kamala Harris Doesn’t Get about Food Costs
By Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute, In North Carolina, Kamala Harris called for a new federal law to ban “price gouging on…
Letter to the Editor – Shilhanek
Dear Editor, I read the article about Montana suing over Obama care for noncitizens. I own Maaco Collision Repair. Before…
Nobody talks about freedom anymore
By Roger Koopman “The Divine Knowledge has ebbed out of us, and we do not know enough to be free.”…
Montana Families Deserve Choice School Options such as Charter Schools
By Chris Cargill, Kendall Cotton, and Derek Oestreicher The Center Square Families across the country have long benefited from the…
Judicial Activism or Judicial Restraint?
By Roger Koopman Some may consider it mere coincidence that over the past forty years, the Montana Supreme Court has…
‘The American Crisis;’ 250 years after Thomas Paine
By William Haupt III, The Center Square “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of…