Opinions

Montana businesses are in an untenable position

On Thursday, President Biden announced the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the coming weeks will issue an “emergency temporary standard” that will mandate all employers with 100 or more employees to require their workers be vaccinated or undergo weekly Covid testing. This rule is estimated to impact 80 million private-sector workers, with businesses facing fines of up to $14,000 per violation.

Limit expression

To the editor,

APR’s proposal to BLM would set a terrible precedent

An important deadline approaches for Montanans fighting to stop the American Prairie Reserve from decimating the agricultural economy of Eastern Montana. The Bureau of Land Management will take public comment until Sept. 28 on APR’s proposal to “rewild” their federal grazing allotments by removing them from agricultural production. The stakes of this proposal are high due to the precedent it would set.

Montana Farm Bureau comments on Waters of the U.S.; Urges agencies to consider agriculture’s concerns

The Montana Farm Bureau Federation, the state’s largest general agricultural organization, has urged the Environmental Protection Association and Army Corps of Engineers to strongly consider the concerns of farmers and ranchers when rewriting the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule.

Thoughts of peace

To the editor,

Be Aware

To the citizens of the Dillon area,

Congress is a deadly extremist organization

“What Drove 9 Moderate House Democrats To Hold Up Their Party’s Agenda?” Nathaniel Rakich asks at FiveThirtyEight. “[N]ine moderate Democrats threatened to vote no on moving forward with Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution, unless the House first voted to pass the Senate’s bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure package.”

Unnecessary war

To the editor,

Missionaries

To the editor,

DCI provides statement on Missoula officer-involved shooting

Bryan Lockerby, Montana Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) administrator, provided the following statement today regarding the officer-involved shooting that occurred on Thursday, Aug. 12 in Missoula: