From the Editor
From the Editor
Mon, May 22, 2023
By Evelyn Pyburn
In reporting about the media misrepresentations, regarding Representative Kerri Seekins-Crowe’s experience in discussing the transgender issue of SB-99 during the state legislature, she said that after asking one reporter about why he wasn’t interested in her side of the story, he told her that while he didn’t want to lie, since the issue was “politics” he could basically “portray any truth he wants to.”
Although the statement is stunning, because he was so forthright ...
By Evelyn Pyburn
The concept of non-partisan is nonsense.
It’s to say that a person doesn’...
by Evelyn Pyburn
As someone coming from farm life, I fully know the urgency farmers face duri...
By Evelyn Pyburn
Billings representative, Katie Zolnikov has introduced House Bill 337, which...
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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...
Thursday, April 06, 2023
By Dr. Timothy G. Nash
The U.S. economy is not as good as President Joe Biden has stated over the last year — nor is it as bad as many Republicans would argue it to be.
The U.S. unemployment rate is at a multi-decade low while job growth co...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023
By Rob Natelson
Preliminary note: Public discussion within Montana about the merits of that state’s 1972 constitution is dominated almost entirely by those who benefit from its terms. Many of their depictions of the constitution are imprecise ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Warm greetings, Representative .
Thank you for allowing me to share a few critically important and objective facts concerning HB 284, aka, The Blackmail Bill.
I do not use the term blackmail loosely. I chose it very carefully. F...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Once upon a time, in a land where our leaders tended to have more concern for their constituents then they do now–-though nothing as per their job descriptions in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense–-established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022
By Roger Koopman
They called him Reinhart, but he would one day change his name to Ralph to sound more American than German. Huddled with his parents and three siblings in steerage class, he arrived at Ellis Island at the age of one.&nbs...
