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Tariffs Hurt Montana
On November 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the President’s tariffs. The President’s legal team does not address the constitutional authority of the executive to impose unilateral, unchecked tariffs. Instead they claim the tariffs have raised “trillions of dollars, as President Trump has leveraged the IEEPA tariffs into negotiated framework deals
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Time For The People
This month my friend Staci died. At her funeral in Malta, Montana, Fr. Pete, who went to Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where my dad went to college, connected the Book of Ecclesiastes to homesteaders proving up their ground. In May of 1862 President Lincoln signed the Organic Act making Montana a territory. That same month Lincoln also signed the Homestead Act of 1862 that
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Flathead Lake’s Yellowstone Club
Flathead Lake is the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. Formed by glacial retreat, the lake sustained Native American tribes for millennia, including the Séliš, Ql̓ispé, and Ksanka people. The name Flathead is an early European misinterpretation of tribal identity. The lake and the water flowing south out of the lake are on lands reserved to the tribes: 25 miles south of
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Crazy Golf Water
The Yellowstone Club markets itself as “one of the most exclusive destination residential developments in the world. The club and community occupy approximately 13,400 acres, representing the world’s only private ski and golf community.” In 2024, Yellowstone Club hosted a fundraiser for the republican presidential candidate; tickets were between $100,000 and $844,600. The YC expanded into the Crazy Mountains in 2021 by
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Check for Ticks
Growing up in the country in eastern Montana, my Mom’s last three words to us as we left the house in the morning were “watch for snakes.” After long spring days outside, her first three words to us when we cam in were “check for ticks.” When one escaped our search, and buried its head
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Tariffs from Congress
Congress can stop the tariffs. Today. If Congress doesn’t act, they are raising costs for everyday Americans through tariffs to allow tax cuts for the very wealthiest. Congressional rolling over and playing possum is irresponsible and a violation of the Constitution. Congress does not have the “choice” to hand all its power to the executive
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Resources for Workers
On February 28, 2025, a Court entered an order explaining the mass terminations of federal employees. The chaos is from the scale (more than 2,000 in Montana alone), and the lack of information: As many as 200,000 probationary federal employees are at risk of termination. Those already terminated rank somewhere in the tens of thousands.
