Opinion

I respect the importance Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has in ensuring protection of Montana’s environment. We acknowledge Director Livers’ support for Hecla when he…

Reflections from two years of local news This month marks two full years of owning The Montanian. I love every minute of it, but boy…

The U.S. Forest Service issued a Briefing Paper on June 27, 2018 that provided a summary of key points and “clarity of facts.” regarding the…

When critics of the Mining Bad Actors Law attacks Montana’s enforcement of a state law that protects taxpayers from shouldering the clean-up bill for mining…

There’s an old saying that, “If it can’t be grown or raised, it must be mined.” And in Montana—where mining is among our largest economic…

Radical environmentalists funded by out-of-state billionaires would have Montanans believe I-186 is only about clean water, and that Montanans wrote this “citizens initiative”. They would…

Montana’s system of government, as well as the application of our state’s laws, is designed in a very deliberate way—and with one core goal: to…

Bear ID and human mystery stimulate creativity Did you ever have one of those brain summits that was just too good not to share? I…

The Montanian believes in the free discussion of ideas as a necessary element of a free society. We are pleased to provide this open forum…

The Montanian believes in the free discussion of ideas as a necessary element of a free society. We are pleased to provide this open forum…