Guard Your Turf

Yesterday two hearings took place that exemplify our misplaced priorities. The first was Senate Bill 44, a bill to provide a process to hold patients harmless from balanced billing by air ambulance companies. The hearing was large enough to move the Senate Business...

Defunding Planned Parenthood

There’s an old saying, “Good or bad, elections have consequences.” Well, I’m happy to report that after years of trying, we’re finally succeeding cutting off federal funding to America’s largest abortion provider. Recently, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that the...

A Cut is Not a Cut

As President Ronald Reagan once said, “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” For those who enter politics, the very first rule of government is that there’s never enough money,...

I’m Just a Bill

As of yesterday, 256 bills have been introduced in the Montana House and Senate. That may seem like a lot, but when it’s all said and done, that number will rise to about 1600. Many people know how a bill becomes a law because we’ve all seen the old Schoolhouse Rock...

True Hope

by Jeff Laszloffy             As 2016 draws to a close and we look forward to Christmas, I find myself filled with hope for several reasons. First, politically. For some, it’s the main reason. Their hope rises and falls depending on who wins the election. For me,...

Happy Chanukah

Yesterday in a conversation with a Jewish friend of mine, I was reminded of the ongoing struggle of the Jewish people, a struggle that found its way into the news twice in just the past week: First, when Neo-Nazis called for an anti-Jewish march in Whitefish, Montana;...