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Susie Brown deserves a Nobel Prize for Caregiver of Animals!

Susie Brown deserves consideration for Sainthood! Seriously!

Through thick and thin (mostly thin-thin-thin resources), she has crafted a caring-loving safehaven for dogs and cats.

We can not even begin to imagine the personal and professional sacrifices she has made.

Montana takes a comprehensive approach to school safety

Guest opinion

As parents send their children into the new school year and teachers welcome them into the classroom, safety is on everyone’s mind. When it comes to student safety, the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) and Montana schools take a comprehensive approach. Student safety is not just school security, it is also promoting mental health, multi-tiered systems of student support, and building infrastructure.

Your vote, your voice: Don’t waste it

More than a year out from the 2020 presidential election, we’re already starting to see “spoiler” fear-mongering from supporters of America’s two largest political parties and their candidates. Will formerly Republican congressman Justin Amash of Michigan run for president as a Libertarian or independent in 2020? How about formerly Republican, formerly Democrat, formerly independent, former Rhode Island governor and US Senator, now Wyoming Libertarian Lincoln Chafee?

Will the DNC Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Yet Again?

Will the DNC Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Yet Again? by Thomas L. Knapp President Donald Trump faces an exceedingly narrow path to re-election in 2020. In order

Reading Is Fundamental. Congress Should Try It.

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As the US House of Representatives took up the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” in 2010, then Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) famously told her fellow members of Congress “we

Sneering at “Conspiracy Theories” is a lazy substitute for seeking the truth

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On the morning of August 10, a wealthy sex crimes defendant was reportedly found dead in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. “New York City’s chief medical examiner,”

In the mail

Public lands To the editor, Someone named Chuck Denowh, in his praise of Perry Pendley as the acting director of the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), let the cat

Sheila Stearns excellent selection to head redistricting commission

As the Districting and Apportionment Commission begins their work, I am encouraged by the leadership of the Commission’s presiding officer – Sheila Stearns. After speaking with her early on, I

William Perry Pendley’s appointment to lead BLM great news for Montana

The hysterical reaction by the left to the appointment of William Perry Pendley to serve as director of the BLM deserves a response. The chief accusation against Pendley is that

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