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With reservations gone, shuttles key to Glacier crowd control
This season, no reservation will be required to drive what is considered America’s most scenic alpine highway. Eli…
Legislators in Helena are trying to centralize government
Why the persistent attack on local governments this session?
Glacier ticketed entry unfair and bad for business
As a seasonal small business owner in East Glacier, I’m greatly concerned with the overreach of the Glacier National Park pilot program for ticketed entry.
Stop the war on public schools
I have been a Montana State legislator since 2009 and a public school teacher since 2004.
86th mission lasted 1,881 days
Tom was my grandmother’s favorite relative judging by the clippings she displayed wherever she lived.
Hard conversations about homelessness
There’s been no shortage of opinions on the Flathead Valley’s homeless population since the Flathead County commissioners’ penned a letter in January that ultimately set the conversation into motion.
Letters to the editor April 9
Letters to the editor April 9
Lessening Montanans’ tax burden
The 2023 Montana Legislature began its legislative session with an unprecedented surplus, mainly due to the over-collection of state taxes from Montana taxpayers.
We are failing sexual assault survivors. HB 79 will fix that.
There were 1,524 reported cases of sexual assault in Montana in 2019 — that’s 430 more cases than in 2013.
Letters to the editor April 6
Letters to the editor April 6
Letters to the editor April 4
Letters to the editor April 4
Judicial supremacy does not exist
The Montana Supreme Court, in McLaughlin v. The Montana State Legislature makes the claim that Judicial Supremacy essentially amended the Montana Constitution to confer power and control over the executive and legi…
Letters to the editor April 3
Letters to the editor April 3
The real agenda behind Montana charter schools
Critics of Montana public schools, are recycling student achievement boogeymen and offering charter schools as the solution.
Letters to the editor April 2
Letters to the editor April 2
Billings’ problems aren’t Kalispell’s
Kalispell could bear the brunt of unintended consequences rolled into a Billings senator’s bill that aims to fix a problem exclusive to The Magic City.