Opinion

Easter - take a moment to think about life and death

Easter is an exciting day for Christians around the world. Churches around the globe look forward to celebrating the resurrection of Christ. Clergy persons look forward to a one day

Legislature: the laying on of hands

It was January 1991. I was a second term legislator who, for a reason I can’t remember, wanted to take on a leadership role and sought and won the position

Legislature missed chance to improve access

Polls consistently show that Montanans support public lands and access to them. And yet, the 2019 Montana Legislature consistently opposed bills that improve access and supported bills that reduce it.

Time to get educated about e-cigarettes, JUULs

I am quite certain that by now you have heard about the epidemic of teens using vape or e-cigarettes but you may still be unsure of what these contraptions are.

Cow country residents don’t need a hug, but they do need a nap

Calving heifers and sleep deprivation are buddies. Decades back, my older brother, Dana, and his wife, Alice attended evening childbirth classes during calving season thanks to bad timing or bad

For a pork industry selling trust, USDA inspections are key

One tried-and-true tool politicians use to deflect public criticism directed at them is as old as politics itself: beat up the press. Someone in Secretary Sonny Perdue’s U.S. Department of

Forget about surviving, God made us to thrive

Although my kids think differently, I don’t consider myself to be that old. However, I do find myself saying things like “When I was kid” and “Back in the day.”

Technology and calving a good combo

This year at the MATE show, we became enthralled with the booth selling camera surveillance systems for calving barns and lots. Of course, calving was upon us, so we had

One of time’s reluctant elders

On an April Sunday afternoon a year ago, the last ancestral connection to the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth was severed when my mother died quietly and peacefully.

Remembering Lincoln’s legacy

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was killed by an assassin’s bullet and our history, at the end of the Civil War, was re-written for generations to come. What

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