As of this writing there are more than 380 bills passed by Congress this year sent over to the Democrat-controlled Senate for passage, but sit on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's desk dead on arrival

If you favor reasonable school funding and the disclosure of political contributions, and the willingness to work across party aisle, consider a Democratic candidate for the Legislature

She knows better than anyone that the “so-called refusal” was the result of the inability of Ryan Zinke and John Lewis to find a mutually acceptable time and place

In a time when identity theft and fraud is increasingly common, Montanans should welcome the REAL ID Act standard

Coal demand, like all economic demand, is not a fixed immutable number

What would happen to the price of lumber if all that talk to bring timber harvests on public land back to the boom year levels becomes reality?

If you plan to vote this fall, you need to consider how each candidate is searching for support

I want the best possible representatives in place when the decisions have to be made to protect Montanans and other Americans

Mitchell seems clearly confident that he can rely on Flathead voters to dutifully elect whomever has the “R” after their name on the ballot

It’s time for industry to quit crawling too far out on a limb and then trying to blame someone else when it breaks

Often, a candidate will avoid attending debates for strategic reasons. I have always detested this as an outrageous disservice to voters

By omitting the fact that wolves naturally recolonized Northwest Montana, readers may conclude that wolves in this area are from those reintroductions

A key vision of our founding fathers was that voters would consider the person over the party when electing our leaders

It is vital to national survival that we have a strong and determined Congress

We believe that rejection would lead to years of litigation