Opinion

As a kid, I loved collecting shells on the beach - still do. There is something calming about walking on the sand, listening to the waves and looking for small treasures the tide washes up. I never found a pearl - not many of us do on the beach. You usually have to take a deep dive to find a pearl, but I was always enamored of them. Pearls come from humble beginnings - from a errant grain of sand or some other irritant that finds its way inside the shell of a clam (or mollusk or other shelled ocean creature.) The clam detects the pearl, which at this point can probably be described as a thorn in its side. It hurts, probably intensely so, but the clam has no way expelling the irritant....

Our nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm on federal nutrition policy. They’re right to be concerned. Rates of diet-related diseases -- including obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, and iron-deficiency anemia — continue to rise. Anemia alone affects 10 million Americans, causing...

Editor, I’m just wondering why should the American taxpayers have to pay for the president’s 79th birthday in Washington D.C. on Saturday the 14th of June? During his campaign Trump told the American voters that his administration would look for abuse fraud and waste within the federal governm...

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 rea...

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...