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Tribes move to join lawsuit challenging Montana election laws
A group of Montana tribes and a Native voting organization moved to join a lawsuit that challenges new election laws. The tribal plaintiffs argue that changes to Election Day voter registration disproportionately harm Native Americans in rural and tribal communities who already face significant barriers to voting.
Trump to rescind Roadless Rule, ending protections for 58 million acres nationwide
The proposal could open road construction and logging to about 30 percent of Forest Service land, including about 37% of Montanas U.S. Forest Service acreage, 45% of Idahos and 35% of Wyomings. But it could also leave the Forest Service in a quagmire of interlocking policies and plans that have shaped everything from local economies
State budget includes new investments in tribal colleges, repatriation
The states budget includes a historic increase in funding for tribal colleges and appropriates more than $367,000 to a team at the University of Montana dedicated to repatriating cultural items to tribes.
GOP plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules
A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling public lands in the West to
For massive Great Falls data center proposal, energy supply is crucial to push project forward
Montana has about 540,000 housing units, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A proposed data center in Great Falls may require enough electricity to power 88% of those homes for a year.
Has Bozemans rental market finally flipped?
Not long ago, tenants in Bozeman leveraging cheaper rent would have been unheard of, unthinkable even, but real estate experts largely agree that a glut of newly built apartments in the city is driving down rental prices across the board.
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