Columns

Watch out for falling rocks

Published on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — Don’t breathe a word, but President Trump is up to something. His insulting, too-dumb-tofail comments about four freshmen female members of Congress has the civilized world’s trousers in

Going slow turkey from Donald Trump

Published on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:00am
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This summer, I’m taking a tip from the Chantix turkey. You may have seen the ads for Chantix, a drug claiming to help people stop smoking gradually. The turkey character

Public demands protection of the Smith River

Published on Wed, 07/17/2019 - 12:00am

“I believe this proposed mine will be another catastrophic event in the history of Montana hard rock mining,” said Curtis Thompson, a Cascade County resident who owns property on the

The news cycle without Trump’s tweets

Published on Wed, 07/17/2019 - 12:00am
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Let’s pretend President Trump didn’t tweet. Let’s live in a universe where the president of the United States didn’t see fit to insert himself into every controversy, to comment on

Gagging investigators

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am
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Recording events from public land shouldn’t be a crime. Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a public road, filmed farmworkers pushing a cow with a bulldozer, the farmer

Trump never takes a vacation from provocation

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — For many, summer is the literary season of lighter novels at the beach or pool. For me — exhausted by the quickening pace of President Trump’s moral and

Ross Perot, truly one of a kind

Published on Mon, 07/15/2019 - 12:00am

As someone who was lucky enough to cover the 1992 presidential campaign --involving Republican incumbent President George W. Bush, Democratic challenger Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and the independent maverick, Texas

Reducing collisions between wildlife and vehicles in Montana

Published on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:00am
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It can happen on just about any road or highway in Montana. You are driving along enjoying the lovely Montana countryside. When out of nowhere a deer, antelope, elk, maybe

To defeat Trump, Democrats should nominate Bennet

Published on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40% of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing

Acosta needs to go

Published on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 4:47pm

Alexander Acosta, as the U.S. attorney in Miami, was responsible for cutting the deal that allowed notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to get away with a slap on the wrist. In yet another example of the vital importance of old-fashioned investigative journalism (aka “fake news”), the Miami Herald in February detailed the agreement that allowed Epstein to escape any federal charges for his wrongdoing. Instead, he slept at a state prison for 13 months and only had to be there one day a week. When the secret deal was finally made public, outrage ensued.