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ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL: $8M of Montana money for border wall? No thank you!

The Butte Weekly recently ran an editorial cartoon that depicts a dazed and confused Montana Sen. Scott Sales (R-Bozeman) with a bone protruding from his noggin. 

The cartoon is fitting after Sales proposed sending $8 million of your Montana taxpayer money to the Mexican border to help fund President Donald Trump’s proposed $5.7 billion border wall.

It’s a bonehead idea that most certainly won’t gain any traction during Montana’s 66th Legislative Session, which kicked off earlier this month in Helena.

Confirm Barr — and hold him to his pledge of independence

“In the current environment, the American people have to know that there are places in the government where the rule of law, not politics, holds sway,” William P. Barr said

Hello, Dolly

She was my daughter’s godmother. She was my friend. We knew her from politics, not Hollywood: She was close to “Lady Bird” Johnson and her legendary press secretary, Liz Carpenter.

End the shutdown and get back to work

There is a reason why the Congress has an 18 percent approval rating. One of the least popular political ploys in recent memory is the government shutdown, something that is

On drug prices, Americans are the real suckers

Drugmakers rang in the new year by raising prices on hundreds of products — American prices, that is. Americans focused on the celebrations weren’t paying attention. Allergan led the parade,

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Don’t send our Montana tax dollars to fund border wall Editor: The real news has been buzzing this week about the border wall. This is not how we Montanans want

Are we truly one paycheck from disaster?

The partial government shutdown has forced some federal workers to move money around to pay for food and rent. No surprise there. What’s shocking is the many who don’t have

Give Trump airtime, but listen with critical ear

There was some debate recently about the television networks’ decision to air President Trump’s speech about the border wall. Reminds me of decisions I had to make about a city

Shutdown ‘Crisis’

This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.” “Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!” says The Washington Post. “Pain spreads widely.”