Montana is fighting the Supreme Court's logic-defying Citizens United in a lawsuit filed by a corporation, not a person, that wants to maintain its right to interfere in Montana state elections with unlimited and anonymous campaign donations. Twenty-two states have…
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Sure, we can trust oil companies... to spill oil, pollute our waterways, keep it quiet, and not clean it up. A week before the Exxon Silvertip pipeline spilled oil into the Yellowstone River, a smaller pipeline operated by FX Drilling…
Erdöl über alles! ...and all over everything. The challenges Montana faces in holding Exxon accountable for its Yellowston River oil spill serve as a warning to South Dakotans and others facing TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline expansion. Exxon has been so…
State Senator Russell Olson thinks having more big oil pipelines running through our fair state is just great. Those oil companies pay lots of property tax and buy lots of electricity, don't ya know? Maybe Russ would like to spend…
Columnist Jonathan Ellis referred to raising taxes as South Dakota's nuclear option. Nuts to that: let's go for a real nuclear option. As I learn from Montana Cowgirl, Montana Teapublican and new state legislator Derek Skees wants to lift Montana's…
If you think the 48,000 acres proposed for the Tony Dean Cheyenne River National Grassland Wilderness is a big deal, check this out: Mr. Kurtz reads about an ambitious conservation project proposed by our friends at the U.S. Fish and…