Articles with the Tag: government
News from the office of the Governor MONTANA — Governor Steve Bullock issued a directive to ensure all eligible Montanans can safely vote in the 2020 November general election by allowing counties to expand voting by mail and early voting. Whether or not they provide mail ballots, all counties wil...
News from the Office of Indian Affairs MONTANA — Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Sweeney announced the opening of the third of seven offices established under the Operation Lady Justice Task Force to investigate cold cases involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska...
Cooney to speak on his economic plan for Montana News from the office of Lt. Governor Mike Cooney Lt. Governor Mike Cooney and his running mate, Casey Shreiner will be guests of the Lake County Democrats for a Zoom event to be broadcast on Monday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. Lt. Governor Cooney ...
MONTANA — Montana Department of Agriculture announced that over $7.5 million in grant funding has been awarded through the Montana Meat Processing Infrastructure Grant programs. The grants are designed to aid small and medium-sized meat processors in responding to the COVID-19 crisis through the adapta...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – A Montana water rights bill that would end a years-long debate was passed by a congressional committee on July 29, the next step in ensuring irrigators and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes can avoid lengthy and costly adjudication of irrigation rights. Members...
Amid all the controversy surrounding Senator Steve Daine’s “Montana Water Right Protection Act,” two facts have become abundantly clear: there will be no disclosure to taxpayers and the public as to how the $1.9-billion-dollar figure attached to the act was arrived at nor, once the money is...
News from the Office of Senator Tester U.S. Senate — U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced that Montana is set to receive a shipment of 12 cases of the antiviral drug remdesivir to help treat Montanans hospitalized with cases of COVID-19. According to the Food and Drug Administration, adminis...
News from the Office of the Governor MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock and First Lady Bullock, in partnership with Montana No Kid Hungry, announced a total of $212,500 in grant funds awarded for continued operation of food support programs in the wake of COVID-19. Local organization...
POLSON – U.S. representative Greg Gianforte presented his plan for bolstering the state economy at an event at Lake City Bakery on July 15. Gianforte is the Republican candidate for governor. His running mate Kristen Juras also attended the event. The visit was part of Gianforte’s &ldquo...
News from the Montana Wildlife Federation Washington, D.C. — On July 22, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the Great American Outdoors Act in a vote of 310 to 107. The bipartisan legislation, which will soon head to the President’s desk to be signed into law, would ful...
