Expiring drugs, staff turnover and more and more regulations Health care costs keep going up, and the future of health coverage is anyone’s guess. And in rural areas, the challenges are even tougher. We love open spaces and small communities....
On Monday, more than 100 people showed up at the Capitol in Helena to protest and to testify against proposed cuts to the Department of Public Health and Human Services. These cuts could directly impact the lives of developmentally disabled...
Lawmaker questions whether violence against nurses is really a problem after hearing directly from nurses The recent violent arrest of a nurse in a Salt Lake City hospital, caught on police video, reminded the world what a dangerous job it...
Montana History Conference looks at a time of trouble and change One hundred years ago, the nation was at war, and Montanans answered the call. In Montana in 1917, two-thirds of the people here were either immigrants or children of...
We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends It’s been a rough fire season for Montana. We’ve had more than 1,500 fires. And depending on the source, they’ve burned somewhere between 937 and 1,380 square miles. Basically, we’re...
Finding common ground while talking on water A Democrat, a Republican, a farmer, a developer and a couple of artists walk into a bar. Last Tuesday at the Filling Station -- one of those odd Bozeman bars where you’re not...
But there may be a LGIT way for them to get found again Montanans shouldn’t have to spend as much time tracking down our representatives as we do tracking down an elk. But if you are trying to find your...
Montana Legislature dishonors history, research, education, preservation “To be honest with you, we’re having a pretty lousy summer.” That’s the update from Bruce Whittenberg, the director of the Montana Historical Society, to a legislative committee last week. The Montana Historical...
Hot mic reveals PSC strategy to eclipse solar development of Billings project Energy independence has always been a trait of Montana. We have a long history of using our natural resources to power our homes and communities. It’s important to...
Montana’s $7 billion economic juggernaut deemed “nonessential” by Speaker Austin Knudsen Montanans expect our government to be smart and fair with taxpayer dollars. We believe that our politicians should be accountable to the folks who write their paychecks -- us....
Lawmaker questions whether violence against nurses is really a problem after hearing directly from nurses The recent violent arrest of a nurse in a Salt Lake City hospital, caught on police video, reminded the world what a dangerous job it...
Ruby Valley Produced Upset Winner; Bets Taken Now on Bolt D’Oro Before tractors, hydraulic combines, dirt bikes, and trucks, we Montanans relied on horses for every aspect of life: combining wheat in the fall, tilling the land in the...
The stories of a strong ranching community in Eastern Montana after the Lodgepole Fires Photographs and Writing by August Schield Just above the 47th parallel, directly east of the Musselshell River, the wide open prairie landscape of Garfield County has...
These days, you can easily drive from Billings to Glendive without stopping. At 80 miles per hour, the plains are a blur. But should you choose to slow down, you may be struck by the nuance of the country before...
The Value of Agriculture: Welcome to the Ruby Valley Story and Photos by August Schield In Montana, people are bound together by a common landscape. It is the single most underlying substance that all life shares. Air and animals. People...
Photographs and writing by August Schield On September 4, a strong easterly wind event helped the Rice Ridge Fire, just east of Montana’s Seeley-Swan Valley, consume 48,000 acres of timber in a single run. Nearly doubling in size, the fire...
Hard Work, Ambition, and Community I’ve lived in Montana my entire life, and the first thing from Montana I ever heard mentioned on TV was Butte. It was mispronounced (as “Butt, Montana”), but it still was on television. I was...
RANCHERS : THE LOCAL CONSERVATIONISTS Story and Photos by August Schield Ranchers are the local conservationists in the Ruby Valley. Here, conservation isn’t only a part of the culture, but also a part of the community. Meet Rick Sandru and...
