Voices of Montana

Episode

What to Make of All That Money

Both of Montana’s U.S. Senate candidates, Democrat Steve Bullock, and Republican Steve Daines, raised record-breaking quarterly amounts of campaign money, $7.7 million and $5 million respectively, far surpassing the previous…

Tax Day Doth Come

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government extended the deadline for your 2019 taxes to July 15. Did that extension help? How many of you took advantage of that…

St. Mary Repairs 8 Weeks In

It’s been nearly 2 months since the large concrete structure known as Drop 5 of the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance dropped into the Milk River. Since then, local, state,…

Guidelines for Schools

We’ve wondered since late March, when Montana’s schools were first closed, what the future would look like for our students in the face of a lingering viral pandemic. After two…

Blaine Amendments and All

Montana’s school choice advocates didn’t pick this fight (Senate Bill 410 – the Tax Credit Scholarship Bill) to knock out the Blaine Amendments, but in the end that’s the high…

Affinity Fraud

Affinity Fraud – what is it? It’s the kind of fraud that targets groups and organizations you have some affinity with, such as ethnic groups, military groups, religious, professional, social…