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Friends of the Black and Gold Award Scholarships
The Friends of the Black & Gold is proud to award $500 scholarships to Alaina Barger and Sydney Gutierrez, Badger Cubs Youth Basketball Program The scholarships were awarded to Cascade High School...
By Week Nineteen Update
This week is the nineteenth week of the 2023 Montana Legislature. This week will be the last week of the session. Last week, the Senate passed a series of key bills which are the final pieces of legislation necessary to bring the 2023 Legislative...
Certainties
I saw a clip from the old show All in the Family. Meathead is putting on his socks and shoes. He puts on one sock then puts on that shoe. Archie, who is watching, goes ballistic because he believes...
Week Eighteen Legislative Update
This week is the eighteenth week of the 2023 Montana Legislature. As of last Friday, we have completed seventy-nine out of a possible ninety days. Depending on how things proceed, this could be the last week of the 2023 Legislative Session. As we...
Possibles Bag
Many years ago, I attended an event that was a failure. A sizeable number of people were involved but success or failure rested on the leadership of one individual. What followed was an utter abdication of responsibility. It was obvious no...
Rosendale Statement on Riots at the Montana Capitol
HELENA – Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) issued the following statement in response to the April 24 events at the Montana State Capitol: “I’ve participated in many spirited debates during my time in Montana’s state legislature — lively civil dis...
Grief and Relief
A friend put in a request for a column addressing a sensitive subject. Over the years numerous folks have expressed similar emotions and there’s always guilt in their voices when they’ve told me abo...
Where to allocate weed tax revenues?
Two proposals with competing visions for the tens of millions in taxes that Montana collects annually on the sale of recreational marijuana are still making their way through the Legislature as lawmakers work to set a two-year state budget. One measu...
Along the way...
A reader, who clearly didn't care for columns devoted to science, said, "You know, science gets things wrong." She was, of course, correct. Science does get things wrong sometimes. The difference...
