Frontier Institute

One of the Montana Legislature’s blockbuster proposals to boost school funding received universal, bipartisan acclaim during its debut hearing this week.

A district court judge earlier this week partially stalled state lawmakers’ plans to set up a new system of charter schools in Montana. The decision does allow the newly formed commission in charge of charter schools to begin meeting.

HELENA - A new bill in the Senate would allow doctors to sell prescriptions directly to their patients, building off legislation passed earlier this month giving providers the option to circumvent insurance companies by creating “direct care agreements.”