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The Year of the Wolves

Thirty years ago this month, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Today, the people who made it happen remember the mayhem and magic of one of the 20th century’s most controversial acts of ecosystem management.

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Asbestos clinic in Libby forced to close

An asbestos screening clinic in a Montana town where thousands have been sickened dust from a nearby mine has been shuttered by local authorities. The move follows a court order to seize the clinic’s assets in order to pay off a judgment to railroad BNSF. Courts in Montana have said BNSF contributed to the asbestos…

How Foundation for Government Accountability is chipping away at public benefits, one state at a time

Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative policy think tank out of Florida, has worked for more than a decade to reshape the nation’s public assistance programs. That includes SNAP, which federal data shows helps an average of 42 million people afford food each month. It also advocates for ways to cut Medicaid, the federal-state program…

Voters deliver mixed outcomes to levy requests from some of the state’s largest school districts

School districts in Missoula, Bozeman, Helena and Kalispell all won voter approval for modest to sizable increases to their schools’ general operating funds. But in Belgrade, similar bids for additional support at the elementary and high school levels failed, as did the Helena schools’ requested increases for technology funding.

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