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Will Montana’s Leaders Stand Up to TACO Don?

It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring...

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George Ochenski

The Battle for Clean Water: Regulate or Capitulate

The average American would be shocked to know what’s in their water — as well as what passes through both fresh and wastewater treatment plants....

19.05.2025 7

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When ‘No’ Means ‘No’: Selling Public Lands or Taking Over Canada

Every kid has heard “No means no!” when they want something their parents don’t think they should have. This week that phrase got a couple high...

13.05.2025 10

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How Sanders Won Montana Again

How strange that due to the disastrous policies of “their president,” Montana’s all-Republican Congressional delegation and governor are now too...

21.04.2025 9

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Oh, Canada, You’re Not the Enemy…That’s Coming From Within

Perhaps if you grow up in penthouse on top of a gilded tower in the middle of the predatory capitalist shark tank known as “New York City,” your...

19.03.2025 10

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No Way to Run a State or Country

It sure didn’t take long for the chaos that seems to be a trademark of the GOP’s one-party government to flare across the nation. Only one week...

04.02.2025 7

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Beware ‘Unleashing Freedom’ to Plunder and Pollute

In his recent inaugural speech, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte spoke about how we have what the rest of the nation wants, saying: “The American dream...

13.01.2025 10

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Montana is Not “a Product” and Government is Not “a Business”

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has boasted that “Montana is an easy product to sell” and recently referred to himself as our state’s CEO. He’s...

15.10.2024 20

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Time for Tough Questions to Tester and Sheehy

A recent column by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan called into sharp question the “gallingly disingenuous” refusal of Montana’s Democratic...

30.09.2024 5

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What Goes Around, Comes Back Around

Knock, knock!  “Who’s there?” says Donald Trump. “Karma.” “Karma who?” “Karmala Harris.” They say “what goes around comes around” and that surely...

16.09.2024 2

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Collaborators on the Ropes as Wilderness Advocates Fight Back

Somewhere, the industry lobbyists who successfully introduced “collaboration” to the arena of conservation policies and politics are toasting their...

02.09.2024 20

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