Opinion

Thanks to voters across the state, we sent more Democrats to the Montana Legislature this session. Democrats came to the legislature to put Montanans first, and we did. Democrats showed up with clear priorities and a commitment to deliver: lower costs, strong public schools, access to health care, and real solutions for housing, property taxes, and child care. We worked across the aisle when it made sense, and we stood firm when core freedoms were on the line. The result? One of the most productive and balanced sessions in recent memory because Democrats were at the table and ready to govern. Let’s talk about what we delivered: Health Care: Thanks to Democratic leadership, Me...

The 2025 Montana legislative session got off to a rocky start on day one in the Senate when a group of nine Republicans defected to collude with Democrats in a surprise maneuver to change the Senate’s rules and committee assignments giving themselves and Democrats more power. For the entire legislative...

Editor, Our president, Donald J. Trump, has been living a life involved in practicing and promoting human negative attitudes. These involve behavior involving anger, fear, launching personal attacks, and blaming others for your own problems. We the People have the ability and power to counter all this ...

Boulder, Montana kept my dad alive. So did the government. My father never quite understood how I could live in New York City. He preferred Montana, open rather than dense, prairie rather than concrete. Great Falls was his birthplace, and later he stayed in Carter and Plains, before living his last years ...

It starts as a slight twinkle in the eye, nothing more than a spark of an idea, the beginning of grand plans. Vacation: It’s more than a word. It’s a destination. The typical vacation lasts about a week, but the trip itself is frequently a multi-stage event. Stage one involves planning and can...

A new tracker revealed that the Trump administration is blocking or freezing more than $430 billion in federal funding owed to communities across the country — including nearly $316 billion for national programs that support Indian Country and Native communities. The data reflects just how widespread t...

Montanans are being crushed under the weight of skyrocketing property taxes. Longtime residents are watching their tax bill soar as wealthy out-of-staters scoop up land and inflate home values across Montana. Families, seniors, and working people across the state are pleading for relief. This session a gr...

In this column I want to address a topic most of us avoid. Growing old. Or more specifically, the people living around us who are senior citizens - aging professionals, if you will. I want to talk about this greatest demographic of all time. We expect a lot of them.  After all they’ve ...

Editor, In our rural state, public broadcasting is extremely popular - and important. Many of us make long drives and do our work to NPR programming: music, talk shows, history and science shows, a variety of podcasts, local programming, local weather, balanced and informative news - whether state, local ...

 Editor, Today’s Valley Journal (May 7) mentioned “infrastructure investment at MT State Prison.” To my way of thinking an investment is something that gives you returns of some sort in the future. It might be money, it might be saving money, it might be preventing problems down the...