Opinion
When President Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States this week, it marked a new day in America. Voters rejected Joe Biden’s policies that led to unaffordable prices, open borders and weakness abroad, and together with a Republican Congress he is already delivering on his America First agenda. The President nominated an all-star cabinet, including Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to run the Interior Department and energy executive Chris Wright to head up the energy department, Pam Bondi to reform the Justice Department, Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense and Kash Patel to run the FBI. The Senate is already hard ...
Editor, Young people in our local communities have historically supported the Ronan Bread Basket through sponsoring food drives, donating garden produce and the yield of 4-H projects. This past holiday season offered the Bread Basket so many opportunities to be grateful for and celebrate the community ...
To provide a better understanding of what climate change means for Montanans, we are hosting a new monthly series, entitled Montana Climate Matters. Each month, you’ll hear from experts knowledgeable about climate science, impacts, and solutions. Our goal in this endeavor is to facilitate unders...
Property taxes in Montana are an incredibly complex issue, but that isn’t stopping Senate Republicans from working hard to reform them this legislative session. On January 22, the Senate Tax Committee heard SB 117, a bill I’m sponsoring that reforms how local governments in Montana calculate thei...
Montana’s property taxes are out of control. That’s why our top priority this session is passing permanent property tax relief for Montanans. And we’re not alone: Governor Gianforte signaled property tax reform is at the top of his to-do list this session in his recent State of the State ad...
Senate Republicans have numerous pieces of legislation to consider during the 2025 session, but few are as important as bills to reform Montana’s overreaching courts. The state’s judicial branch has ventured into the realm of making laws instead of interpreting them, endangering the system of che...
I read something on grief the other day that struck a chord. The person writing lamented the fact that losing your spouse causes you to lose not only the person dearest to you, but in the aftermath you also lose most of your friends as well. I can personally attest to this. And that is not pointing any fi...
Editor, Human extinction should be a “hot topic” for our world today. Right now, especially with the extremely good example our Middle East crisis is showing us, our world is watching the extreme devastation and killing capabilities of weapons of mass destruction. Add to this the threats of...
Of all of the work we have accomplished at the Department of the Interior under the Biden-Harris administration, one of the most significant has been the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. In October at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, I listened as President Joe Biden issued a historic...
Editor, It’s clear that the US needs a better immigration system. That said, let’s see if I have this right. The incoming administration wants to deport most immigrants. But that’s not exactly it. They want to deport some of them, ones who work in jobs that Americans won’t work, su...
