Yesterday, the Great Falls Tribune’s Kristin Cates featured a story about one of the first Montanans that signed up for health coverage and are now starting to get health care, including Holly Blouch, a plucky young woman from Kalispell Montana who can finally get the kidney…
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by Justin Robbins
Robbins is a frequent and popular contributor to the Cowgirl Blog. You can follow him on Twitter at @JustinRobbins15
Whether you are a full-on buff, a hobby historian or you just glance at the occasional documentary while surfing channels, you will have noticed the story of the human race is nearly inseparable from the history of religion. Where human civilizations arose and fell again, there lie the remnants of idols, the signs of ritual, and the fragments of the stories through which they understood their world. You can start literally wherever and whenever you want. In any corner of the globe you can find humanity’s first and flailing efforts to explain what we now know to be natural phenomena; including the fact there are no corners on the globe.
TEA Party Sen. Jennifer Fielder New Head of Extremist Group The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting this week that TEA Party, militia affiliated state Senator Jennifer Fielder will replace Ken Ivory as head of the ludicrous public land takeover quacks known as the American Lands Council. The…
Greg Gianforte met with the Ed Board of the Helena IR last week. It was recorded on video. Here are the highlights. Gianforte believes Bullock manages the state’s finances well. When asked what savings measures he believes are necessary, or whether there are any state…
Instead of getting to work on Flint’s water crisis that is endangering the health of its citizens, GOP Governor Rick Snyder has hired a self-described “high stakes public relations” firm that specializes in “crisis management” to treat his public relations problems. The local water supply in Flint, a town…
by Justin Robbins
Robbins is a frequent and popular contributor to the Cowgirl Blog. You can follow him on Twitter at @JustinRobbins15
I’ll offer the obvious disclaimer that “I wasn’t there”, but not without the qualifying claim that I didn’t need to be. The revolution, such that it was, was televised; or streamed, as the case may be.
By Jim Nelson, Montana Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) “Transparency.” Montana voters are likely to hear that pledge time and time again in the coming months. Campaign finance law is complicated, with more loop holes than a Swiss cheese, and the voters and the media should…
In the last three months of 2015, Ryan Zinke raised $601k for his 2016 re-election campaign. That would be an impressive haul had he not spent every dime of it during the same time. In fact, according to his latest FEC filing, Zinke spent more…
by Sen. Mary Sheehy Moe (D-Great Falls) Sen. Moe can be reached at moe.mt.senate@gmail.com Follow her on Twitter @MaryMoeMT
We’re off! After lo, these many months of “exploration,” Greg Gianforte’s campaign for governor has officially begun. And so has the spin cycle.
Last week came the long awaited and grandiose announcement of Greg Gianforte’s candidacy for Governor, with big thematics about low wages in Montana. But on his first full day as a candidate, he decided to play small ball, showing up to the state Capitol and…
by Jim Nelson, Montana Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) Helena, Montana On the sixth anniversary of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, one of the most far reaching and pernicious decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States, it is important to review the…
by Ben Lamb Ben Lamb is an avid fly fisherman, big game hunter, and author who loves to spend as much time as possible in wild country. Follow him on Twitter @BenLamb1 There are few issues in the west as complex and convoluted as public land…
After months of exploring uncharted waters of evasion and avoidance Greg Gianforte, finally, today, our nails not exactly bitten to the quick, has told Montanans whether he was going to run for Governor. Surprise! He is running.
The announcement seemed to come as a genuine surprise, even if only to
Robbins is a frequent and popular contributor to the Cowgirl Blog. You can follow him on Twitter at @JustinRobbins15
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “the sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” For him, this sentiment was part of a reflection on literary fame in one’s own lifetime called The Crack-Up, published in Esquire magazine in 1936. In context from such a profound writer and intellect, it is consummate artistic prose. It is the elegant demand for perseverance in the face of perceived futility.
