Voices of Montana

Voices of Montana

How Do You Know Who To Trust From The Media?

Is America media illiterate? A Montana film producer and an Oscar-nominated director have teamed up for a timely documentary showing how biased media and sensationalism is undermining trust. “TRUST ME” explores the need for better “media literacy,” in an information […]

DPHHS Update On The Montana State Hospital

The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs has been rolling over rough waters of late, with difficulties maintaining staff, a COVID-19 outbreak that claimed the lives of four patients, and, most recently, a loss of Medicare funding. Listen to the […]

Are We A Step Closer To Energy Independence?

You almost don’t want to call it a win-win, since it may sound too good to be true. But a new pipeline that just opened in Southeast Montana will simultaneously extract untapped oil in the Cedar Creek Anticline by using […]

How Is Rural Montana Making The Most Of New Federal Funding?

Montana has received billions of federal dollars in recent years. The question now is how exactly it’s being spent? The USDA Rural Development program in Montana is taking major steps in updating communities’ broadband, mental health and meat packing development […]

Wading Through The Montana Waters

It’s been said that whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting, and we’ve seen plenty of fighting across Montana in recent decades. Montana’s rural water systems recently received over $100 million of new bureau of reclamation funding while the conflict […]

Catalyst for Change – A Model for Rural Mental Health

How can you help your rural community overcome mental health challenges? First, ask people how they are doing and get “Beyond The Weather.” Second, listen in as we talk to Amber Martinsen-Blake, Founder and Executive Director for Catalyst for Change. […]