University of Montana’s Crown of the Continent and Greater Yellowstone Initiative commissioned a poll that showed widespread support for keeping Wilderness Study Areas as they are.  Daines and Gianforte promptly trashed the results.

CoreCivic, owner of the CrossRoads prison near Shelby, tried to use $30 million of the state’s own money to extort a new contract.  Bullock refused.

Republican Senate candidate Russ Fagg released a horrible campaign ad bashing immigrants and supporting Pres. Trump’s border policy.

Republican candidate for Senate Troy Downing was proud that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn would speak for him in Montana. UPDATE: As it turned out, the idea generated so little interest that the event was cancelled.

Pres. Trump went off the deep end, blaming Sen. Tester for derailing the flawed nomination of Dr. Ronny Jackson to head the Veterans Administration.

University of Montana tried to put lipstick on the pig of laying off over four dozen faculty members.

The Great Falls-Billings Catholic Diocese agreed to pony up $20 million to victims of priestly pedophilia.

The four candidates for Senate pivoted around questions about President Donald Trump.

Testifying before Congress, Secretary of the Interior (and former Navy SEAL) Ryan Zinke piled on another claim to be a geologist.  He’s not.