Guest Opinions

Guest Opinion - Give Montana’s students the gift of hope this holiday season

 

 

Guest Opinion - Don’t touch that snow shovel – it could kill you

 

 

It’s hard to know what to make of a recent Montana news item.

Guest Opinion - Local FARMS Act feeds rural economies

 

 

Where our food comes from matters – for our health, for the vitality of our communities, for our wallets, and for the environment. One of the Center for Rural Affairs’ goals is to connect the local people who grow and make food with the local people who eat it.

Big game for... how long?

By Don Thomas

 

Hunting, fishing and wildlife are important to Montanans. These are the reasons many of us live here, and tourism and outdoor recreation are now the state’s largest economic driver. Support for these values helped make Steve Bullock a blue governor in a red state, and politicians took notice. No matter what their ultimate intentions, Greg Gianforte and Ryan Zinke both took pains to portray themselves as allies of Montana sportsmen. So did Senator Steve Daines.

Guest Opinion - Stand up for national monuments

 

 

On Dec. 4, President Trump signed two proclamations dramatically reducing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah.

Northern Plains responds to Bureau of Land Management suspension of methane rule

On Dec. 7, the federal Bureau of Land Management finalized the delay of much of its Methane and Waste Prevention rule until January 2019. In response, Northern Plains Resource Council issued the following statement:

Congress: Consumer Bureau’s payday rule aligns with Montana values

gnoring the voices of families and communities who have worked for many years for relief from the harms of predatory payday lending, a handful of members of Congress have introduced a bill that would nullify an essential rule finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month.

Deficit hawks fly the coop

 

 

Where have the deficit-hawks flown to? Are their heads in the clouds?

If you look at the tax plan that just passed the Senate, it’s clear they have flown away from Washington.

Unfortunately, some folks in Congress turned their back on future generations and passed a so-called “tax reform bill” that sells off the futures of our kids and grandkids in exchange for tax giveaways to wealthy out-of-staters.

Guest Opinion - The ‘thrill’ of Central Montana being home to a pot dispensary

 

 

Guest Opinion - Balancing state budget helped by Montana State Fund fee

 

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