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Candidate playing fast with truth

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Gustafson the right choice for Montana

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GOP reforms have improved medical care for Montanans

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The 2021 Montana Legislature passed major health care reforms to empower patients, reduce red tape for doctors, and provide access to more affordable care. We’re now seeing those changes have a major positive impact, and as the sponsors of the bills enabling this progress, we couldn’t be more excited.

Group launches ‘No Rancher Left Behind’ campaign

Billings — R-CALF USA has announced the launch of “No Rancher Left Behind,” a rancher/farmer conversation and awareness campaign. The campaign is a collaboration between R-CALF USA and Coy Young, a Missouri cattle rancher who recently testified before Congress about the stresses he faces as a cow-calf producer during this time of chronically depressed cattle prices and high input costs.

Bicentennial Library

So, we are going to visit a little bit about accountability: What is great is that the hotspots are really popular, this is also what makes it difficult. Currently, there is always a waiting list for hotspots. So, when you choose to return your hotspot late or drop it in the drop box after hours, you are choosing to have your hotspot hold privileges taken away. (The staff calls it grounded) for two weeks.

Montana Dateline

The River Press at Fort Benton announces the discovery of gold in the Sweet Grass Hills north of the present Shelby. For the next five years, a prosperous mining camp named Gold Butte thrives at the base of the middle butte. The three main buttes of the Sweet Grass Hills are visible as a person looks north while traveling along US Highway 2. In the days before the coming of the white man, the Sweet Grass Hills are regarded as sacred places by the Blackfeet who travel to the area to scout for buffalo or to participate in vision quests.

Life With Lois

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Sometimes to get to the beginning, you have to start at the end. My Grandpa Bohleen, an avid reader, did it when he read a book. He’d read the last chapter first, as he told me, “to see if it was worth reading.”

Custer refutes claims, defends record

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Spring comes in the fits of storm

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This month has been a master class in the perils of ranching. We spent the first half of last week getting ready for a major winter storm, the second half weathering it, and now we are digging out. I can’t remember when I’ve been this physically or emotionally exhausted before (and this comes from a woman who had two children in the span of 18 months.)

Our constitution is clear – let people vote

My grandfather Melvin Running Wolf was only 36 years old when all Native Americans finally gained the right to vote in the United States. Imagine that. Only three generations ago, not all Native Americans could vote in elections due to frivolous state laws that acted as barriers to the ballot box. Although Natives gained their citizenship in 1924 and states were allowed to determine voting rights, many states created laws with the intent to interfere with many people's right to vote. People like my grandfather, who served in the military, was a proud U.S. citizen, a hard-working family man, and a productive member of society, were targeted with these laws.