The Montana media has done a very sloppy job of telling the story of the Montana Democrat Party’s (MDP) extreme effort to remove the Green Party (GP) from all Montana ballots for the 2020 General Election. The misreporting of this story, if it was not just unforgivably sloppy, was a deliberate effort to spin the…
Here’s the list of candidates in Cascade County/Great Falls who will be on the ballot in November competing for seats in the Montana State Legislature, followed by E-City Beat’s invitation for each candidate to answer some questions for voters. We encourage our readers to contact the candidates and encourage them to respond so that voters…
Donald J. Sterhan is the President and CEO of Mountain Plains Equity Group. He has previously served as Chairman of the Montana Chamber of Commerce, President of the Montana Chamber Foundation, on the White House Conference on Small Business, and as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors. Rosendale’s plan will…
After we published our two opinion pieces from this week (Should Lewis & Clark’s Names & Statues Be Removed? and Pastor Collins Responds To Lewis & Clark Statue Question) concerning statues and monuments memorializing Lewis and Clark, a reader posted in our comments section this link to an article in the online Oregonian dated June…
E-City Beat emailed local Montana legislative candidates who are in primaries requesting responses to three questions, which you’ll see below. Ballots for the June primary are currently arriving in mailboxes. Today we are publishing responses from GOP candidates for SD 10, Steve Fitzpatrick and Jeni Dodd. Ms. Dodd didn’t include a photo with her response….
Montana Governor Steve Bullock has announced that the state will begin easing restrictions put in place due to COVID-19 starting this coming Sunday and Monday, April 26 & 27, with churches and retail businesses allowed to re-open. This will be followed by bars and restaurants having the green light to open up on May 4….
Not too long ago, we wrote about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Whitney Williams’ massive fundraising efforts, and the fact that more than three quarters of her haul originates from big money donors outside of Montana. Given the extreme disparity between Williams’ out-of-state donations compared to the other candidates, I decided to take a deeper dive into…
Legislator Ed Buttrey, the incumbent in HD 21, will once again face a competitive primary. Black Eagle resident Sally Tucker filed to run in HD 21 as a Republican today. Buttrey trounced Republicans John Abarr and Rickey Linafelter (winning over 75% of the vote) in a three-way primary in 2018, before ultimately defeating Democrat Leesha…
Montana Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Whitney Williams is a fundraising tour de force. Williams, the daughter of former U.S. Representative Pat Williams and former Montana Senate Majority Leader Carol Williams, has amassed a campaign war chest that leads the Democratic field. According to the Montana Free Press, Williams has raked in $431,768, but with only…
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