The 2020 Public Service Commission (PSC) race is an opportunity to end the corruption inside of Montana’s PSC. Our current PSC has allowed the energy monopoly, Northwestern Energy, to double its profits in the past 5 years at the expense of Montana consumers. With the subservience of the current PSC, Northwestern Energy is neither investing in renewable energy nor allowing … [Read more...] about Candidate: PSC ignores ratepayers by allowing NW Energy to hide costs of Colstrip

The abuse of presidential power for personal gain or revenge is nothing new, but its use has always been kept from public scrutiny because it was rightly considered, both by the perpetrator and the public, as dishonorable, slimy, underhanded and wrong. Lyndon Johnson was a master at using it without getting caught and Richard Nixon used it but did get caught. When Sen. … [Read more...] about Montana Viewpoint: Revenge is mine, sayeth the politician

On a cold, icy afternoon about a year ago, a 4-year old and his mother hung a notice on my front door. Rebecca and her son, Frances, are my neighbors from just a few blocks over. They had navigated the disconnected network of sidewalks in our neighborhood, known as “Franklin to the Fort,” to let folks know about an upcoming community conversation around housing. A week … [Read more...] about Health Beat: Community connections foster health and wellbeing

For decades Montana has been the envy of hunters who pursue elk. Our state has healthy elk herds because of our incredible habitat on public and private lands. We enjoy the longest season in the West with a six week archery season and a five week rifle season. No other state comes even close. With our strong elk herds comes challenges in their management. Landowners at … [Read more...] about Voices: Montana’s elk hunting traditions worth preserving, but need work

https://youtu.be/VSrEEDQgFc8 The State of the Union (SOTU) speech was less a report to the nation than a well-produced reality show and well-staged campaign rally. But what really offends is that most of the substance Trump advanced was not true. Unsurprisingly, the President who has spit out more than 16,000 false or misleading claims in his first three years, played fast … [Read more...] about Evan Barrett: Truth, Trump and the U.S. economy