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Of pockets, legs, and polarization

“For the people who actually study the origins of civil wars, not just in the US, but as a class of events,” says Dr. Timothy Snyder, who does just that as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, “America doesn’t look good right now, with its high degree of polarization, with its alternative reality, with the celebration of violence.”

A modest proposal: Pandemic Saving Time

It’s only early January, and already this 2022 thing is obviously not working out. With the “omicron variant” of COVID-19 upon us, politicians and public health authorities are already off on their next round of COVID-19 Hokey Pokey:

Sen. Tester questioned Fed Chair about the state and strength of the American economy

U.S. Senate, Jan. 11 – At today’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s nomination for a second term leading the U.S. central bank, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester spoke with Powell about the importance of having an independent Fed and about Powell’s commitment to resisting political pressure.

On foreign policy, Biden should have taken golf lessons

When Joe Biden took office as the 46th President of the United States, those of us who desired a more peaceful foreign policy had reasons for both hope and doubt.

No COVID restrictions yet at UMW events

The UMW’s women’s basketball team is set to play its first home game of 2022 on Saturday, starting at 2 p.m. against MSU- Northern in Straugh Gymnasium on the UMW campus in Dillon—where the Bulldog men’s basketball team is set to take on its counterpart from MSUN at 4 p.m.

EXPRESS YOURSELF IN THE DILLON TRIBUNE

Let other people know how you feel and what you think with a letter to the editor. Letters are subject to editing for libel and good taste, and should be limited to 400 words or less.

Holiday season sprinkled with special Dillon spirit

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From Thanksgiving through Christmas, the holiday season in Dillon proved to again be a tribute to the spirit and compassion of the community-minded citizens of Dillon and Beaverhead County. The large number of folks that jumped in and made all of these moments possible reminds us that Dillon is a special place.

Democrats’ reckless tax and spend spree will exacerbate inflation crisis hurting Montanans

Montana families across the state are feeling the pain in their pocketbooks from inflation and higher prices on everything from gas to groceries to heating their homes. What’s causing this? President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ wasteful spending problems, and their multitrillion dollar reckless tax and spending spree bill will only make matters worse.

No, President Biden, we’re not your ‘customers’

“Today,” the White House announced on Dec. 13, “the President is taking decisive action to promote fiscal stewardship by improving the Government’s service delivery to its customers, the American people.” Joe Biden’s latest executive order “includes 36 customer experience (CX) improvement commitments across 17 Federal agencies.”

Let’s open our eyes to the illusion of “beneficial spending”

We’ve all heard the saying, “it’s easy to be generous with someone else’s money,” and we know how adept our big spenders are at moving money around from the politically plundered to the politically favored. We know instinctively that government creates no wealth, no jobs, no prosperity. It can only redistribute that which was produced by another person’s ideas, initiative and labor.