July 2026
American Democracy At A Crossroads
Steve McGann
This year, 2026, marks the 250th birthday of the United States. There will be many celebrations throughout the year, especially on the 4th of July. We already know that one person, aided by his legion of lackeys, will try to preempt these events to…
July 2026
What’s Up With Landlords and Property Managers Nixing Section Eight Vouchers?
When a culture is healthy, with a decent level of credibility, affluent people are honored in their integrity and purpose by grasping the struggle of the impoverished and what they can do to raise up those who struggle to exist in poverty. Assuredly…
June 2026
After years of fever-pitch building, talk of Bozeman’s desirability has been quieted by a loud reality: rental concessions in Bozeman are now leading the nation. Rental Beast’s Q1 2026 report identified an astonishing…
April 2026
Ready to end dark money and corporations swaying our elections? The Montana Plan is here—protecting free and fair elections for Montanans by restoring transparency! Beginning mid-March, The Montana Plan began collecting signatures from voters…
October 2025
The Bozeman Water Adequacy ballot initiative (aka WARD) is a citizen-driven effort to link the critical issue of housing affordability with water availability. If passed, WARD would amend the Bozeman Municipal Code to allow developers to pay cash in…
May 2025
In response to the City of Bozeman’s Unified Development Code (UDC) update, Bozeman residents necessarily became more informed and engaged about the big changes coming their way. Addressing a basic need like housing must also consider public…
March 2025
Shortly before Senate Taxation took executive action on Senate Bill 2 to revise the treatment of tax increment financing, its bill sponsor (and Senate Taxation Committee Chairman) Senator Greg Hertz (R-Polson), circulated an article in…
March 2025
Steve McGann
This opinion was contributed after our editorial deadline had passed, we included here in the Recreation section.
The United States of America is being dismantled in plain sight. The new administration has authorized unelected, sometimes even…
February 2025
Steve Kirchhoff
If history truly does repeat itself, as it seems to, this fact argues for time’s being nonlinear. Instead, time is probably circular, like a spiral or a wheel, and you and I, and our lifetimes, are like spokes on a wheel of time so large that…
January 2025
Rendering of "The Guthrie" at 5th and Villard presented by Home Base at Bozeman City Commission meeting July 9th 2024
I live in an old house on the north side of Bozeman, and this winter I find myself in a bit of pickle.Six weeks ago, I…
