Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Dear Editor, Lynch and Bidegaray will protect our freedoms. Montanans have an opportunity to elect two experienced and independent justices to the Montana Supreme Court who will respect the Montana Constitution and protect our constitutional rights. They are Jeremiah Lynch and Katherine Bidegaray. Jeremiah Lynch, a Butte native and federal court magistrate for 13 years, is running for the Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court. He has what it takes to be our Chief Justice, having served as...
Dear Editor - this letter is directed to Tim Sheehy. Mr. Sheehy: One of your ads, which promotes demonstrably false and dangerous misinformation on Social Security, is airing on Montana television. The ad, paid for by the Tim Sheehy Campaign for U.S. Senate, features Nora Fouhy of Billings, and misrepresents the truth about Social Security, using terms like raids and cuts. Big Sky 55+ respectfully calls on you to immediately cease and desist airing this dangerous misinformation. Thousands of...
Social Security is secure, solvent and here for the long term. Those who claim that it is not are just plain wrong. If you repeat something even if it’s wrong often enough, people begin to believe it. The fiscal foundations and future of Social Security, so important to so many of us, have been subject to a blizzard of misinformation. Every year the Social Security Trust Fund Trustees report to Congress on the long-term financial health of Social Security. The reports provide our elected officials with the information they need to secure and en...
Fourth of July celebrations mark the middle of Montana's short, sweet summers. Inevitably, fall follows with cooler weather and shorter days. But before we tuck summer delights into our memories, we celebrate another big community event, the 40th Annual Jefferson County Fair and Rodeo, August 22-25, at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Boulder. The fair and rodeo are more fun if you participate, for example, by volunteering, entering exhibits or competitions, or marching in the parade. Many...
"Neither cold nor rain can keep us from our work," joked Bryher Herak, Basin, co-chair of Jefferson County Democrats. The group met recently to clean up trash along Highway 69 in front of the fairgrounds south of Boulder. "We Democrats live all over the county but we came together to get this done, and we had a good time doing it!" she said. About 30 people braved the blustery forty-degree afternoon, donning orange vests and carrying black trash bags, as they picked up items big and small along...
Dear Editor, Republican legislators just passed the biggest tax cut for the wealthy in Montana’s history, a whopping One Billion Dollars. That’s a billion, not a million. Meanwhile, the needs of regular Montanans, like affordable housing, care for the elderly, and child care for workers, are pushed aside under the pretense of “we just can’t afford it.” At the same time, this Republican legislature wants to create a new system of private schools for their kids that you would have to pay for. These private schools would not require certified...
Dear Editor, In the early 1970s, frustrated with the corporate boot that dominated and bullied Montanans, the state’s people rose up. Led by ordinary citizens like Pastor George Harper of Helena, local historian and mother of six Louise Cross of Glendive, and League of Women Voters leader Dorothy Eck of Bozeman, they crafted what is now recognized as a world-renowned Constitution. Among many important motivations was their conviction that in order to free Montanans from corporate dominance at the expense of workers, farmers and ordinary c...
Calling all parents and grandparents! Time to get your kids’ exhibits ready for “A Fair of the Heart,” the Jefferson County Fair, August 25-28, at the Jefferson County Recreation Park one-half mile south of Boulder. Every exhibit gets a ribbon and there are cash prizes for purple, heart, and best in show ribbons. Fair events and contests include: · Art, photography, crafts, cooking, sewing, canning: you name it, we have a category for it or we will make one up. See the fair book for entry ideas. People can enter exhibits in the fair no matter w...
The 2022 Jefferson County Fair and Rodeo, "A Fair of the Heart," is August 25-28 at the Jefferson County Recreation Park, one-half mile south of Boulder. Jefferson County Fair Board member Megan Dawson urges people to bring their exhibits. "We work hard to make it easy to be in the fair. We encourage people to enter exhibits, and are excited that 4-H animals will be entered again this year," Dawson said. The Jefferson County Fair is open to exhibitors from all over and is no longer limited to...
Dear Editor, Why are Montana Republicans attacking local control? Montanans cherish local control. Our treasured state constitution puts power in the hands of those who are elected in our communities, people like school board members and city and county commissioners. A most troubling example comes from Elsie Arntzen, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction. Montana’s schools are governed by locally elected school boards, people who serve because they want the best for our students. Instead of supporting their thoughtful decisions, A...
Love them or hate them, most Americans pay their fair share of taxes into the government’s coffers as a basic duty. In return, we get roads, schools, law enforcement, health services, clean air and water and other public goods that benefit everyone. But for too long, the rules that apply to most of us have been shirked by the richest households and corporations--those who can afford to pay their fair share, but thanks to loopholes, lobbying and preferential treatment, seldom do. Every year, dozens of Fortune 500 corporations manage to avoid t...
