Editorial

Trump, a Harley and the law

Editor, the IP: I’m sorry I have to write this. This is about former President Trump, the sheriff’s department, an $8,000 Harley Davidson bike and the law.

Vote to defend Montana’s constitution

Letter to the Editor: What do you picture when you think of Montana? Is it the huge swaths of hikeable nature? Our varied individual liberties? The nation’s best fishing and hunting? Or is it privacy from the chaos and prying of more populated states like California? Fifty years ago, Montanans decided that these things were important enough to our culture to be enshrined as rights within the state constitution. The product was the creation of the greatest constitution in the nation; one chock full of rights that average Montanans see the fruits of each and every day.

States leading the way in cannabis policy innovation

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Innovation in public policy has always started at the state level. For example, voting rights for women and minorities were state reforms before being adopted nationally. That's how the United States was set up to function, with states serving as the 'laboratories of democracy' to experiment with public policy and let the best ideas emerge from the bottom up.

Mack Truck v. Motor Scooter

Judicial independence is a matter of Constitutional law and American tradition. By the strict design of our founders, our separate court system has been independent of party politics, and therefore not guided by party platforms and party leaders as are the other two branches of our government.

The dark dawn of a new day

The dismantling of our public schools by design

Flat tires on rural roads

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Like many people with rural roots, I learned how to change a tire when I learned to drive. And when we buy a vehicle I take time to find where the spare and the tools are located and look at the tire-changing instructions in the owner’s manual.

Bicentennial Library

We had 137 individuals register for the summer reading program. Thanks to our teacher/leaders we had 238 individuals participate in all the activities. We are so grateful to you Mrs. Baer, Mrs. Charrette, Mrs. Dahl, and Ms. Nikki. You made this year’s summer reading program possible, and we are grateful for you contribution.

Montana Dateline

July 15, 1805

Life With Lois

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Trauma is a scary word. It usually means something has gone wrong. In my experience, there can be terrifying trauma or tiny trauma. And we each have a threshold of what is terrifying and what is tiny.

Menthol rules will save lives; Montana needs to do more

When it comes to tobacco, it’s been said that “menthol helps the poison go down easier.”