After campaigning for Governor, then again for Congress, on a promise (an obviously false one) to protect public lands, he’s just gone and done the exact thing he said he wouldn’t do. Shock! Gianforte last week introduced not one, but TWO bills to get rid…
It’s been a bad week for Senator Daines. In an attempt to secure a win for his corporate overlords and circumvent his constituents Daines announced a new piece of legislation that would release nearly 500,000 acres of Wilderness Study Areas (WSA). Daines claims that this…
A political cartoon from Paul Seccomb Outside Magazine wrote a profile on our former Congressman chronicling his journey from moderate Whitefish legislator to looney-tune Interior Secretary. But it ends with a conclusion this blog has held for a long time: Regardless of Zinke’s ever-changing policy…
Never did I think the Ravalli County Commission would be the place to call out extreme Republican views, but hey it’s 2017–things just keep getting weirder. This week, Ravalli County Commissioners rejected a plan from land transfer advocate Rep. Theresa Manzella (R-Hamilton) to have Wyoming attorney and…
I wonder what former Congressman Zinke’s been up to… I hope he’s making Montana proud… Oh.Dear.God: CNN: What’s Up with Ryan Zinke? Newsweek: LIKE QUEEN ELIZABETH, TRUMP’S ZINKE HAS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FLY SPECIAL FLAG JUST FOR HIM New York Post: Ryan Zinke’s ‘official business’…
It’s hard being Interior Secretary. Ryan Zinke is learning that. Montana’s former Congressman turned Trump Cabinet Secretary is currently under investigation for the alleged threats he made to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski during the GOP’s failed health care boondoggle. He is seeing wide-spread opposition to…
We all remember Ryan Zinke. The once moderate state legislator turned right-wing nutjob LT governor candidate, turned SEAL TEAM SIX PATRIOT AND IF YOU QUESTION ME JOHN ADAMS I WILL STARE YOU DOWN Congressional candidate, turned Speaker of the House candidate, turned Interior Secretary. Mr….
This Saturday, August 19th at 6pm at the Bunkhouse Brewery in Bozeman, Montanans are holding a Town Hall for Senator Daines. The question is will Steve Daines show up to the Town Hall that his hometown Bozeman neighbors are holding for him to ask him about…
This video of two burly Canadian security guards manhandling a Montanan trying to defend his private property started circulating around the internet recently. Wasn’t sure what it was for a while, then a tipster pointed out that this was a local rancher who lives along…
by David R. Montague
Mr. Montague was raised in Billings, where he wrote a column for the Gazette for 6 years. He’s the author of two books and has written for Northern Lights Magazine which gave many now-famous writers a start, including Mark Spragg, William deBuys and Terry Tempest Williams. He is now retired and lives in Potomac near Missoula with his wife.
In an essay about what he calls “normalized ignorance,” Professor Henry Giroux observes that “successful political campaigns are now dependent on an uninformed public.”
How accurate is his observation when it comes to the issue of climate change?
You Won’t Believe Who’s Writing All Those Gazette Stories The Last Best News will tell you anyway. Great stuff from this site as usual. Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters An ominous bellwether for the Montana GOP. …
by Josh Manning Manning is a combat veteran and serves on the leadership team of Common Defense, a group of progressive veterans joining together to affect political change. You can follow him on Twitter @joshuamanning23 Far from Montana, members of the House of Representatives are…
by Justin Robbins By now, you may have still not heard of the Standing Rock protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which hopes to transfer oil produced in the Bakken oil fields to Illinois and beyond. Without speculating on motive, I’ll just say it hasn’t…
One of Montana’s remaining investigative news stalwarts, the Bozeman Chronicle has broken the story today of an ethics investigation involving a handful of right-wing GOP muckety-mucks. The Montana Attorney General is investigating an alleged ethics violation by Gallatin County Commissioner Steve White, a TEA Party Republican and hobby drone aficionado…
