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News & Press
April, 25 2024
Shooting the Messenger
Missoulian - Mary Sheehy Moe - retired educator and former state senator
Read ArticleApril, 18 2024
SORRY. Climate science is not a plot to put computer chips in your brain
Lake County Leader - Jeffery Smith
Read ArticleApril, 6 2024
Yet another ‘Reform’ committee!
Missoulian - Jim Nelson of Helena is a retired Montana Supreme Court justice
Read ArticleMarch, 27 2024
The Great Tax Shift Benefits Wealthiest
Valley Journal - Montana Budget & Policy Center by Rose Bender
Read ArticleFebruary, 2 2024
Republican Supermajority’s Abuses of Power Threaten to Cost Montana Taxpayers Millions of Dollars
Montana Democrats
Read ArticleFebruary, 24 2024
Wrapped in the Flag and Waving the Cross
James C. Nelson, a retired Montana Supreme Court Justice, published in CounterPunch
Read ArticleFebruary, 17 2024
Different rules for different folks
Daily Montana - James C. Nelson is a retired lawyer and former Montana Supreme Court Justice. He lives in Helena.
Read ArticleFebruary, 16 2024
Trump’s chaos engulfs the Montana Republican Party
Daily Montanan - GEORGE OCHENSKI
Read ArticleFebruary, 14 2024
Majoritarian democracy or minority tyranny? The choice is ours.
Daily Montanan by JAMES C. NELSON
Read ArticleFebruary, 10 2024
An Ex-Gun Industry Executive — And Democrat — Looks To Become Montana’s Next Governor
Huffington Post - Chris D'Angelo
Read ArticleFebruary, 8 2024
Governor still mum on tribal law enforcement in Lake County
Montana Free Press - Justine Franz -County officials frustrated with Gov. Gianforte’s silence over pending changes to reservation law enforcement.
Read ArticleFebruary, 5 2024
Rosendale ad repeats false claims on Covid in Montana
Ravalli Republic - KATHERYN HOUGHTON KFF Health News
Read ArticleFebruary, 7 2024
Tim Sheehy Not Qualified to be a Senator
Missoulian - Letters to Editor - Dick Mangan
Read ArticleFebruary, 7 2024
Sheehy Campaign Offers Nothing On Issues
Missoulian Letter to Editor - Gary Brooks
Read ArticleJanuary, 23 2024
Ryan Busse shares gubernatorial goals
Montana Right Now - Ryan Busse shares gubernatorial goals
Read ArticleJanuary, 23 2024
Ryan Busse discusses policy points of his campaign for Montana governor
Independent Record
Read ArticleJanuary, 24 2024
Gubernatorial candidate Ryan Busse outlines his policy goal
Montana Public Radio | By Shaylee Ragar
Read ArticleJanuary, 23 2024
Democrat Busse outlines policy priorities in campaign for Montana governor
Daily Montanan - Blair Miller
Read ArticleJanuary, 18 2024
Guest view: Daines’ next public meeting will be his first
Missoulian - Zach Angstead is federal legislative director at Wild Montana. Jocelyn Leroux is program director at Montana Conservation Voters. Becky Edwards is executive director at Mountain Mamas.
Read ArticleJanuary, 18 2024
Letter to the editor: Words of comfort?
Missoulian - Stephanie Brancati, Big Arm
Read ArticleJanuary, 18 2024
'Montana is an easy product to sell,' says Gov. Gianforte
Missoulian - Guest View: George Ochenski
Read ArticleJanuary, 13 2024
Missoulian editorial: Does Trump want his supporters jailed, or killed?
Missoulian
Read ArticleJanuary, 16 2024
Missoulian Letter to the editor: Don't be duped by Initiative 193
Shelly Fyant, HD 91 candidate, Arlee
Read ArticleJanuary, 16 2024
Current leaders are not good fit for public service. Missoulian: Guest View
C. Burt Caldwell is a U.S. Marine, retired director of manufacturing in the automotive and space industries, a member of local boards and councils, and has been active in Montana politics for over a decade. He lives in Missoula.
Read ArticleJanuary, 16 2024
Guest view: Missoula legislators: Priorities for 2024
JONATHAN KARLEN, KATIE SULLIVAN, MARILYN MARLER CONNIE KEOGH and 10 other signers
Read ArticleJanuary, 11 2024
Letter to the editor: Fend off dictatorship
Sheila Bell, Polson - Missoulian
Read ArticleJanuary, 11 2024
Letter to the editor: The Copper Kings aren’t gone
Rex Koenig, Missoula - Missoulian
Read ArticleJanuary, 6 2024
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson is an American academic historian, author, and educator. She is a professor of history at Boston College
Read ArticleJanuary, 4 2024
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson is an American academic historian, author, and educator. She is a professor of history at Boston College.
Read ArticleDecember, 11 2023
Sheehy’s ads and history just aren’t adding up
Peter Fox - Daily Montana
Read ArticleNovember, 28 2023
Trump's own words provide a wake-up call
Jim Nelson - Bleeding Heartland Blog
Read ArticleNovember, 22 2023
Open letter to Sen. Daines, Rep. Zinke
Valley Journal - Stephanie Brancati
Read ArticleOctober, 18 2023
Whoops: Montana GOP Senate Candidate Steps On Third Rail With Public Lands Position
Chris D'Angelo - Huffington Post
Read ArticleNovember, 10 2023
Gianforte asks for federal grant for Butte veterans cottage after vetoing use of only state funds
DAILY MONTANA - BY BLAIR MILLER
Read ArticleNovember, 8 2023
Reminder: Tim Sheehy and Matt Rosendale Would Take Away Montanans’ Reproductive Freedom
Montana Democrats
Read ArticleNovember, 10 2023
Gianforte’s Feet Held to the Fire on Rising Property Taxes
Montana Democrats
Read ArticleOctober, 31 2023
Just Another Day in Paradise
Honorable James C. Nelson - Independent Record
Read ArticleOctober, 27 2023
Multimillionaire Tim Sheehy Took COVID-19 Relief He Campaigns Against
Montana Democrats
Read ArticleSeptember, 14 2023
Former firearms exec Ryan Busse announces bid for governor as Democrat
Independent Record - Seaborn Larson
Read ArticleSeptember, 30 2022
I couldn't stay quiet': Ryan Busse's one-man crusade against gun, NRA 'radicalization
Independent Record
Read ArticleSeptember, 6 2023
Two GOP candidates, one Dem, running for Superintendent of Public Instruction
Keila Szpaller is deputy editor of the Daily Montanan and covers education. Before joining States Newsroom Montana, she served as city editor of the Missoulian.
Read ArticleSeptember, 6 2023
Two GOP candidates, one Dem, running for Superintendent of Public Instruction
DAILY MONTANAN by Keila Szpaller is deputy editor of the Daily Montanan and covers education. Before joining States Newsroom Montana, she served as city editor of the Missoulian, the largest news outlet in western Montana.
Read ArticleSeptember, 5 2023
What stays in the litterbox - Daily Montanan
James C. Nelson is a retired lawyer and former Montana Supreme Court Justice. He lives in Helena.
Read ArticleAugust, 26 2023
GOP homeowner tax program in mailboxes soon
Ann Brodsky is a retired attorney. She has owned homes in Helena since 1980 and has lived in her current home since 1998. She served as Governor Schweitzer’s Chief Legal Counsel for 8 years and, before going to law school, worked 5 years for the Legislature as a bill drafter and researcher.
Read ArticleAugust, 16 2023
Attorney General suggests Planned Parenthood of Montana abets human trafficking
Montana Free Free Press - Mara Silvers
Read ArticleAugust, 12 2023
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS HEALTHCARE Voters rejected an anti-abortion measure. Montana Republicans passed a similar bill anyway.
Daily Montanan - Mike Dennison
Read ArticleJuly, 26 2023
ig corporations get tax benefits, while Montana resident get higher property taxes
Ken Toole * Daily Montanan
Ken Toole served on the Senate Taxation Committee 2001 and 2003 and was the vice chair of that Committee in 2005. He also served on the Revenue and Transportation Interim Committee in 2005. He was elected to the Montana Public Service Commission in 2006. He was the founder and Executive Director of the Policy Institute, a Montana Non-profit group that worked on tax and energy policy in Montana. He now has a small farm outside Cascade and writes occasionally for WTF406.com a political blog in Great Falls.
Read ArticleKen Toole served on the Senate Taxation Committee 2001 and 2003 and was the vice chair of that Committee in 2005. He also served on the Revenue and Transportation Interim Committee in 2005. He was elected to the Montana Public Service Commission in 2006. He was the founder and Executive Director of the Policy Institute, a Montana Non-profit group that worked on tax and energy policy in Montana. He now has a small farm outside Cascade and writes occasionally for WTF406.com a political blog in Great Falls.
July, 2 2023
The Montana GOP’s Favorite F Word — Freedom?
James C. Nelson of Helena is a retired Montana Supreme Court justice.
Read ArticleJune, 27 2023
Paperwork is no excuse to not feed hungry children
MONTANA LEGISLATURE DEMOCRAT
CAUCUS
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June, 11 2023
Gianforte is driving Montana into the ditch
Sheila Hogan is the executive director of the Montana Democratic Party
Read ArticleMay, 28 2023
In search of better angels
Mary Sheehy Moe is a retired educator and former state senator, school board trustee, and city commissioner from Great Falls. Now living in Missoula, she writes a weekly column for the Lee Newspapers.
Read ArticleMay, 25 2023
Gianforte takes veto scalpel to infrastructure bill
ERIC DIETRICH DEPUTY EDITOR - Montana Free Press
Eric came to journalism in a roundabout way after studying engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman (credit, or blame, for his career direction rests with the campus's student newspaper, the Exponent). He has worked as a professional journalist in Montana since 2013, with stints at the Great Falls Tribune, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and Solutions Journalism Network before joining the Montana Free Press newsroom in Helena full time in 2019.
Read ArticleEric came to journalism in a roundabout way after studying engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman (credit, or blame, for his career direction rests with the campus's student newspaper, the Exponent). He has worked as a professional journalist in Montana since 2013, with stints at the Great Falls Tribune, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and Solutions Journalism Network before joining the Montana Free Press newsroom in Helena full time in 2019.
May, 12 2023
Shoot the Messenger: Montana Supreme Court Preserves the Right to Privacy and Abortion
James C. Nelson a retired Montana Supreme Court justice. He lives in of Helena.
Read ArticleMay, 21 2023
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian, author and educator. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.
Read ArticleMay, 22 2023
Rosendale’s outdoors bills are unnecessary and disrespectful to Montana
This column was written by Dave Chadwick, authority on federal public land legislation;Zach Angstead, legislative director at Wild Montana; Marne Hayes, director of Business for Montana’s Outdoors; Becky Edwards, executive director of Mountain Mamas; Anthony Licata, communications director, Montana Conservation Voters; Frank Szollosi, executive director of Montana Wildlife Federation.
Read ArticleApril, 30 2023
Smart stuff
Mary Sheehy Moe, Missoula, is a retired educator and former state senator, school board trustee and city commissioner from Great Falls. Now living in Missoula, she writes a weekly column for the Lee Newspapers.
Read ArticleMay, 10 2023
Montana, the last best place
Jim Goetz, Bozeman, lawyer and columnist who has committed to a weekly column over the course of the legislative session.
Read ArticleMay, 15 2023
Negotiating Medicare prescription prices is win-win
Stephanie Brancati, Big Arm
Read ArticleMay, 6 2023
Missoula Current - Montana Democrats: We delivered while Republicans wasted session
Senator Pat Flowers (D-Belgrade) is Minority Leader in the Montana State Senate
Read ArticleApril, 26 2023
Lowering the cost of a service, while still providing the same service, is a savings, not a cut
Stephanie Brancati
Read ArticleMay, 5 2023
The People's Rejection
Max Cummings is an organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America
Read ArticleApril, 23 2023
'Packing' and 'Cracking'
Nancy Liefer, President of the League of Women Voters of Montana and Mary Laporte, is president of the League of Women Voters of Missoula
Read ArticleApril, 23 2023
Battling Boogeyman
Mary Sheehy Moe, Retired educator and former Montana state senator
Read ArticleApril, 18 2023
Red Poppy Music Night Social -Lake County Dems
Friday, April 21st, 6:30pm to 9pm
SEE PRESS RELEASEApril, 2 2023
Headlights on the Gumbo
Mary Sheehy Moe, Retired educator, and former state senator, school board trustee and Missoula City Commissioner
Read ArticleMarch, 15 2023
Minority Leaders to Montanans: talk to legislators about priorities
Legislative Notes: Rep Kim Abbott (D-Helena)
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