How hard has the pandemic hit Montana’s tourism industry? As Executive Director of the Montana Outfitters & Guides Association, Mac Minard heads an organization that is feeling an immediate impact.…
Voices of Montana
Take the Census – Avoid the Scams
The U.S. decennial census is taken only once every 10 years. It may be new, and it may be unfamiliar to some, and that’s where scammers and fraudsters will try…
What’s It Like Back in the Gym?
Trainers and athletic club owners are playfully calling it the COVID-15 – that extra 15 lbs you may have put on during the coronavirus lockdowns. Well, those lockdowns are lifting…
Faithless Electors Allowed
Are the 538 presidential electors in the Electoral College able to choose who they wish, or are they bound to vote in accordance with election results? It’s an important question…
St. Mary’s Diversion Failure
The century-old St. Mary’s Diversion Works has failed. Hydraulic Drop 5 collapsed May 17. It was the last piece of the 29-mile long mishmash of dams, siphons, head gates, tubes,…
Issues and Answers – Follow up to the Supreme Court Candidate Series
What’s the importance of following precedence, or setting precedence when it come to Montana’s Supreme Court decisions? Why have rulings from the state’s highest court caused concern for judicial watchdog…
The COVID Stakes
This one’s just for fun, but it does bring home the point that all the Who, What, Where, When, and Whys of the COVID-19 pandemic is enough to spin you…
AARP Voter Guide: Day 5
Broadband access solutions from GOP gubernatorial candidate Dr. Al Olszewski. Prescription drug plans from democratic gubernatorial candidate Whitney Williams. Five candidates, five questions, five days. The AARP Montana Voter Guide…
“Butte and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic”
Austrians, Fins, Serbians, Germans, Italians, Chinese, Englishmen, and of course, the Irish. Butte, America is Montana’s melting pot, and a microcosm of the U.S. at the turn of the century…