Opinion

Is your insurance company doing what its suppose to do?

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Is Your Insurance Company Doing What They’re Supposed To?

The boys of summer arrive in April

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I was very young—I had just turned eight—to begin a torrid love affair but the St. Louis Cardinals made it easy. It was 1963, Stan Musial’s last year in baseball, and the young team began the season hot and stayed hot through July.

COVID research: when the scientific method gets caught up in opinions

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“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” ​Chico Marx

SB 379 is bad for business

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Senate Bill 379 is a bill that is anti-jobs and antieconomic development. For a legislature supposedly focused on the Governor’s rightful concerns for entrepreneurship, it’s a real step backward. Higher electricity bills will harm efforts to attract businesses to Montana.

Stop legislators from acting like Putin’s pups

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I didn’t study political science in college. I’m a soil scientist. So when people sling political terms around, I have to look them up in Webster’s Dictionary.

Meatpackers fillet taxpayers again and again

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Like many global meatpacking companies, JBS SA, the giant Brazilian meat and poultry packer with extensive operations in North and South America, Europe, and Australia, spent most of the last six months buying its way out of trouble with U.S. customers and the American government.

The people suffer as the rich get richer

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Scripture speaks to us of the “cornerstone”of our faith. The cornerstone is, of course, Jesus. But the Apostle Paul goes on to suggest that that cornerstone causes people to stumble and fall when they are not watchful about what they are constructing. That insight is helpful in looking at the recently proposed infrastructure plan.

What happens when everything happens at once?

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At our best journalists watch out; we keep an eye on what’s happening and sometimes report to our readers the unforeseen implications of otherwise good ideas.

Evidence of resurrection is insurmountable

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The gospel writer John speaks to the philosophers of old, and to men and women of all ages when he opens his gospel with these words: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. John 1:1-4 NIV

Big Agbiz’s big ‘pricefixing’ settlements need a big fix

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In a now too-common story in U.S agriculture, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) last month agreed to pay farmers $45 million to settle what the March 13 Wall Street Journal described as “pricefixing allegations leveled at its peanut processing division.”

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