I bet most of you feel like taxes (and fees) are just a giant Kabuki game of baiting here and switching there. You’re right! So, here comes some more ballot bait, this CI-121, which promises �...
Dang it, this was supposed to be my final Beacon column, but guess what? After holding the “Send Dave Packing” contest open to all comers for what Beacon editor Kellyn Brown agreed would be a...
Last time, I took a little victory lap. Now let’s share a walk of shame. When I was growing up, fully half the jobs in Flathead County were forestry-related. In one form or another, half of us ...
Since I’m on my way out (aren’t you excited!?!?) at the Beacon, I’ve decided to indulge my ego and take a victory lap this week. For years, I’ve mucked around in America’s ever-growing ...
As I’m writing this, the United Nations COP26 “Conference of the Parties” climate change gathering is underway in Glasgow, Scotland, a follow up to the “Paris agreement” five years ago....
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/11/10/glasgows-brave-new-world/
Last week I went to Helena to watch, and testify before, the Montana Reapportionment Commission regarding how Montana’s two U.S. House districts will be drawn out. Because Montana is pretty muc...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/10/27/ugly-reapportionment-may-not-matter-much/
Here it comes! Oct. 13 will see mail and absentee ballots sent out for the Flathead municipal elections on Nov. 2. Yeah, I know you’re just quivering with anticipation, especially in Columbia F...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/10/13/our-nonpartisan-elections/
Used to be I was a pretty moderate guy, downright reasonable. In fact, when Clinton Administration Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt presided over the 1994-or-so reintroduction of gray wolves into...
I started this column about six months ago, shortly after the death of Dave Cano, an admired friend. Ironically, I had to set it aside when I was first waylaid by a stroke (hopefully my last), th...
What crisis has your attention these days? The Delta variant, fire season, housing shortage, ammo shortage, labor shortage, fuel prices, food prices, wokeness? Inflation has mine. Remember being ...