Letters to the Editor
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Montana’s legal disciplinary body can avoid becoming a tool for partisan politics
Montana’s Commission on Practice is the regulatory body of the legal profession here, tasked by the state Supreme …
Judicial activism or judicial restraint?
Some may consider it mere coincidence that over the past 40 years the Montana Supreme Court has struck down almost every conservative ballot measure (referenda and initiatives) that has come before it, while uphold…
Letters to the editor June 27
Letters to the editor June 27
Housing the rich in one town, the workers in another
I live in Victor, Idaho — one of Jackson, Wyoming’s, bedroom communities. Every day, roughly 3,400 Idaho residents drive over Teton Pass to work in Jackson. Only about 11,000 of us live on this side of the pass—2,0…
Innovators think outside of the box
We have not met yet, but we will, as we are both candidates for Montana Senate District 3.
Letters to the editor June 25
Letters to the editor June 25
Misleading rhetoric undermines nonprofit sector
As the executive director of the Montana Nonprofit Association, a membership association that supports more than 850 organization across the state, I’m dismayed by multiple recent incidents of political leaders and…
Letters to the editor June 24
Letters to the editor June 24
Letters to the editor June 23
Letters to the editor June 23
Gianforte raised your property taxes and gave himself a tax cut
Gov. Greg Gianforte raised your property taxes. And he did it deliberately, in order to give the wealthy and corporations huge tax cuts. That’s a simple truth that our governor doesn’t want you to hear, but it’s im…
Montana energy isn’t ready for forced EVs
Last month, the Biden administration published their finalized tailpipe emissions rule, an electric vehicle (EV) mandate which will upend the daily lives of Mo…
Sheehy is a threat to Montanans’ reproductive rights
Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, gutting protections for reproductive health care that had been in place for women and doctors for nearly 50 years.
Letters to the editor June 20
Letters to the editor June 20
Support the Freedom to Vote Act
Having proudly served as former Secretaries of State in Montana, we understand how important democracy is to the people of our state. It’s not a matter of what side of the aisle you stand on – it’s a matter of what…
You go to your church, I’ll go to mine
A few years ago I was talking with a man who raised an interesting question; “There’s only one God, why do we need so many different churches?”
Republicans trying to undermine courts
Republicans in the Montana Legislature can’t seem to figure out whether they want to give legislative power away or try to grab more of it. The only consistent thing about their behavior in past weeks is their desi…