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Republican/Tea Party political mantra includes phrases like “government is the problem,” “any business regulation is bad,” and we just need to “trust the…
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Here on Thanksgiving Day my thoughts go to my family, which is like the face of America. My Catholic father was mostly Irish with a little Scottish, Welsh…
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Analyzing historical electoral patterns may seem like an exercise for the back rooms of a university political science department. But active…
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Here are some givens, some just plain facts. Public infrastructure investments are for the long-term, they serve both now and future generations. Also,…
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Yesterday would've been my father's 95th birthday. On Monday, my mother will be celebrating her 95th with all six of her sons and some of her…
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I recently dropped in on the annual gathering of the remaining delegates to Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention. The Constitution these heroic…
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In the United States and in Montana, the proper functioning of our democratic form of government requires an active and informed participation by the…
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If there's one thing that Americans and Montanans are proud of it's the fact that our form of government is a democracy.We brag about that around the…
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Happy 4th of July – Independence Day – tomorrow.But the old red, white and blue looks a little more tattered this year compared to the past.For today,…
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I do not accept, carte blanche, the reigning conservative belief that higher taxes directly shrink the economy and reduce economic growth. However, that…