Is this a back door approach for statewide sales tax?
Dear Editor: I have used tobacco products and understand the increased medical costs. However, I-185 does not guarantee the money generated will go to medical costs, also, is suppose to reduce tobacco sales. Let me get this straight: I-185 will tax tobacco, which will not cover the cost of current tobacco medical expense and will diminish […]
Absentee ballots on the way
BILLINGS — Registered voters can expect to receive absentee ballots in the next few days. Bret Rutherford, Yellowstone County elections administrator, said county officials will mail 70,000 ballots on Friday. That’s about 5,000 more than ever before, an increase he attributes to the 2017 Montana legislation that keeps voters on the absentee voter list until […]
The Outdoors by Carl Wolf
It was not only dark, but cold and a bit windy. People came anyhow. Sitting on a bench in the shadow of the Pompey’s Pillar museum, I wondered if they would come. Two young women, then an older couple, then some more folks. They were bundled up, but had binoculars at hand or hanging around […]