GOP candidate for the Senate, Troy Downing, has multiple citations for illegally purchasing resident hunting licenses.

Three members of the State Land Board voted to postpone the long-negotiated and well vetted conservation easement on the Stenson Ranch near Glendive.

When Delta Airlines eliminated its discount for NRA members, Sen. Steve Daines swore to find alternative transportation in and out of Montana.

Secretary of the Interior (and former Montana congressman) Ryan Zinke has trotted out a plan to exile D.C. bureaucrats to the badlands.

Gov. Bullock has been coy about his political plans when he terms out.

Not a Montana topic, but I couldn’t help it.

In fairness to Daines, he wants to reduce Wilderness Study Areas, not eliminate them. Tester’s bill proposes to designate as wilderness 79,000 acres in the Blackfoot-Clearwater drainages.

Heh.

With services for disabled and impoverished Montanans tanking, there’s no shortage of finger-pointing.  Sen. Llew Jones sponsored SB86, the budget-busting bill of 2017. However, he blames Gov. Steve Bullock for mismanaging the state budget.

Black Butte is a controversial proposed copper mine in the Little Belt Mountains. The bit coin “mining” site in Butte has now gone online.