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Rep. Zooey Zephyr looks on from the House floor during a session at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., on April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino)
April 29, 2023
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April 30, 2023 12:05 a.m.
Local legislators react to Zephyr's silencing
Flathead Valley lawmakers had a front row seat last week to a sequence of events that thrust Montana into the national spotlight and ignited a debate about what constitutes legislative decorum.