Voices of Montana

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Garfield County’s Clayton Phipps has made a living off the land in more ways than one. For years it was as a cowboy, which he still is, but now-a days…

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…

From the rooftop garden to the archery center below – The Andrus is once again a working hotel. One of Montana’s historic treasures, The Andrus Hotel in Dillon, built in…

Your government has spent a lot of money on the pandemic. Still, after $3 trillion from the federal government, and trillions of dollars more through the Federal Reserve’s assets, public…

It might be easy to overlook with all that is going on around us, but the 2020 U.S. Census is underway, and Montanans are lagging behind the national average (and…

It’ll cover about 11-hundred acres northwest of Baker when done, and add 150 Megawatts of renewable power to the energy grid. A solar farm known as Cabin Creek is set…