Opinion

Preparing for the new year

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It is that time of year when I feel compelled to make my New Year’s resolution to eat healthy, lose weight, and exercise more. I usually stick to that resolution

Howard’s gift

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The Christmas tree was a scrub cedar hacked from the edge of the woods that bordered the farm. Big-bulbed lights, strung in barber pole fashion, generated almost as much heat

Believing we are right makes us feel secure and in charge

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How can two different people have totally opposite opinions on the same thing? Well, it’s pretty easy as we can see, for instance, in the impeachment hearings going on in

MT Dyslexia Screening and Intervention Act provides additional opportunities for students

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Senate Bill 140 (the Montana Dyslexia Screening and Intervention Act) was signed into law on May 1st of this year after receiving overwhelming bipartisan support from the Montana Legislature. This

Merry Christmas Keto

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I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas filled with feasting as part of the celebration. Even though intermittent fasting is all the rage in diets right now,

Sledding tales of broken tails

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Moon boots. A one-piece bright yellow snow suit. A ski mask that would terrify any modern bank teller. This was all the armor needed for a typical 9-year-old to survive

Call to justice and truth

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If you think history plays no part in your life it is because you choose to ignore it. We can’t escape history; we can’t run away from the past. We

How the gas tax came to be and how it benefits Eastern Montana: Part 1

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One of the most difficult votes I have had to take in the three sessions I have served in the Montana Legislature was the vote to increase gas tax. I

Jesus, regular Joe and God with us

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As we approach the Christmas holiday, I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of a different sort of angle to approach the old tried and true article of “the

Further fallout from ‘Mount Tariff’

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No major American daily newspaper features sharper, more poisonous pens than the market-focused writers at the Wall Street Journal. When these opinion peddlers go after you in print, they hit

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