Opinion

Order on e-bikes conjures questions

Published on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 12:00am

A recent secretarial order from the Interior Department classifies electric-powered bicycles as nonmotorized bikes. While seemingly insignificant at first glance, this order could alter the recreational landscape of the West

Through Sanford’s looking glass

Published on Wed, 09/11/2019 - 12:00am
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Once upon a time, Mark Sanford might have been a contender, but there’s too much water under the bridges that stretch from this city of steeples to

Peace Deal

Published on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 4:26pm
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Time to bring down the hammer on the vaping industry

Published on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 12:00am

E-cigarettes have for too long held a unique place in the American regulatory framework. They aren’t tobacco, so the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has no jurisdiction. Though their

Downward spirals of depression can be deadly

Published on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON — There are alarming consequences for the survival of human beings and the success of the society they inhabit when the brain suffers without treatment. And it has become

Taking good money from bad people

Published on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 12:00am
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The now-former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab went from hero to zero in a couple of news cycles. Once heralded for overseeing projects that use technology

Old Faithful, New Faithful

Published on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 4:41pm
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We can build a sustainable future without depending on fossil fuels

Published on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 4:39pm

Editor:

Climate change and global warming are important issues for Montanans. Coming changes will broadly impact our economic sectors and put inevitable strain on state resources. Challenges need to be addressed, especially in agricultural, business and tourism sectors where impacts are already being felt. The unpredictable weather patterns of a changing climate continue to have drastic consequences and Montana needs to be prepared.

New alliance will advocate for CGNF

Published on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 4:39pm

Over many decades, generations of people who value wildlands worked tirelessly advocating for the complete and permanent protection of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. 

Many of those dedicated voices are still waiting. Sadly, others have been lost over time. But as happens in life, new voices have picked up that clarion call to help protect “the last best place.” There was a time when we spoke as one for the protection of the Gallatin Range, the only unprotected mountain range extending outward from Yellowstone National Park. This too seems to have changed.  

NEWS ANALYSIS: US-UK trade deal won’t be so easy post-Brexit

Published on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 4:37pm

WASHINGTON — Britain hasn’t even divorced the European Union yet, and already a new suitor has come calling: the United States.

During a visit to the United Kingdom, Vice President Mike Pence brought word from his boss, President Donald Trump: The United States is eager to reach a new trade pact — one that won’t be possible until Britain completes Brexit and moves out of the 28-country EU trading bloc.