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

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Basically, candidates for higher office should get used to having the rest of their public – and sometimes private – lives filmed

Asking Montana to sit out the opportunity to supply our coal to meet the world’s energy demand will cost our state billions of dollars

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

If you can't explain the ROI of your stuff to a random person in your prospect's lunch room or warehouse, it's going to get picked to shreds.

Too often, I wonder if my America, where proud people think things through and make awesome things happen, is gone

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

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No matter what opinions we may have of labor unions, it was organized labor that created this holiday and a couple of other observances that we may take for granted

Have a great year students. But here’s some advice I can offer with some authority

People need compelling reasons to change what they're doing, even if they're not doing anything.

The only way Amanda Curtis ever becomes a U.S. senator is if young voters, if women voters, and if middle-class voters say that this is their time.