The 2021 Montana Legislature passed major health care reforms to empower patients, reduce red tape for doctors, and provide access to more affordable care. We’re now seeing those changes have a major positive impact, and as the sponsors of the bills enabling this progress, we couldn’t be mor…
I spent the past week in Yellowstone National Park. I was grateful to the people who had the courage and foresight to establish Yellowstone in 1872.
It’s standard strategy in Republican primaries. Every GOP candidate suddenly sounds like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman. They all embrace classic Republican philosophies, which in the economic realm, include a strong belief in private initiative and competitive free enterp…
"Is there a direct relationship between what you see on the streets in Denver, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco with legalizing marijuana?"
I have spent nearly 20 years guiding anglers on Montana rivers and streams in Southwest Montana. After 10 years as a guide, I became an outfitter in 2015 and have been operating my small business ever since. Montana, and its waters, are treasures.
On April 14, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) issued a draft decision to approve a proposal by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) to repeatedly poison 46 miles of Buffalo Creek in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Montana for five years. FWP then wants to plant hatchery-raised Yellowst…
A week after the murder of George Floyd, Richmond police tear-gassed peaceful protesters at the Robert E. Lee monument.
A week after the murder of George Floyd, Richmond police tear-gassed peaceful protesters at the Robert E. Lee monument.
My neighbor is famous.
As we continue the process of looking at the best way to manage Metra in the future there continues to be a lot of rhetoric that is outright misinformation and lies. A lot of this is originating from Commissioner John Ostlund, a bureaucrat with over 30 years as an employee of Yellowstone Cou…
Last week we learned about the Supreme Court’s impending decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and overturn half of a century of legal protection from the government interfering in our most personal and private decisions. As access to abortion becomes a state-by-state patchwork, we have work t…
Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State University, joins host Lawrence Eppard to help us understand the collapse of the Conger Ice Shelf in East Antarctica and its implications. Plus: Climate Investing with Zach Stein from the Carbon Collective!
The recent opinion editorial (April 20) extolling the benefits of nuclear energy sounded very familiar, and Senator Duane Ankney contends that nuclear energy is the key to Montana’s energy future. But let me provide a few words of caution from Utah, a neighboring state where six large munici…
People who know me well, know that I am not a politician. I’m about as far removed from power trips, lying and the political game-playing as a person can get. I’ve been called authentic, humble, hard-working — but never political.
Episode 38: Richard Kyte and Scott Rada also discuss the similarities between Florida's so-called Don't-Say-Gay law and a high school football coach who wants to pray with his players.
Commentary: The biggest decisions we make in life are whether to say “yes” or “no” to new opportunities.
Metra has been under assault by two members of our county commission.
"If the court is stripping away rights, why would it stop at a woman's body autonomy?"
The April 26 article on sex parlors masquerading as massage parlors quotes the mayor without quoting local massage therapists. “Some” massage therapists opposed the ordinance? We polled all of them. 95 responded. ALL opposed the ordinance. Another 22 signed a petition. That’s 117 law-abiding…
My grandfather Melvin Running Wolf was only 36-years-old when all Native Americans finally gained the right to vote in the United States. Imagine that. Only three generations ago, not all Native Americans could vote in elections due to frivolous state laws that acted as barriers to the ballo…
For women, our life course is determined by deciding whether we have children, how many we have, and with whom we have them. Obtaining a degree, having a career, volunteering in our communities, taking care of elderly parents, or raising kids are pursuits — what the Founders called the pursu…
We celebrated Montana State University Billings’ Commencement Saturday, May 7. I always look forward to this special occasion as it signifies the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and grit for our students. I am so proud of each one of them for sticking with it and completing th…
Just weeks ago, Yellowstone County Judge Michael Moses blocked four recent Montana voting restriction laws from taking effect for this year’s elections. A full decision on the laws’ constitutionality is yet to come, but Republican plans for a special legislative session (largely to promote f…
On April 18, FWP announced that a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus was detected in wild birds and at domestic poultry farms in Montana. In its cautionary release, FWP explained that "HPAI viruses are extremely infectious and fatal to poultry and some species of wild birds."
What I do know is that one of the landscapes they have focused on — the Gallatin Range — is a world class gem that would be considered worthy of national park status anywhere else in the country.
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