July 2025
Will we ever see a non-motorized multi-use pathway between Bozeman and Belgrade, or is this merely wishful thinking? As a passionate cyclist and longtime resident of Gallatin County, I find it very hard to believe that some kind of trail has still…
June 2025
Letter to the Editor
In a scene reminiscent of the hit TV show Yellowstone, a modern land battle is brewing in the small town of Clyde Park, Montana (pop. 332).A developer is pushing forward with plans to build an ultra-exclusive private golf club on a historic ranch…
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…
April 2025
Bozeman’s Water and Housing Future
Bozeman has many attributes that make it a desirable place to live and work. It’s not surprising, then, that Bozeman’s population increased from 39,800 in 2013 to 57,300 in 2023. Such massive growth highlights two major challenges Bozeman…
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…
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…
October 2024
Can you imagine a Bozeman with less plastic pollution? It would be a city without plastic bags catching on trees, floating down creeks, and clogging storm drains—as well as a city without polystyrene foam fragments in the bushes and street…
September 2024
Alison Sweeney
As I drive around town and see one after another, of these vapid five-story box buildings taking over neighborhoods of diverse hand-crafted homes, I notice the signs for the design build firms that are responsible. A quick google shows that a…
August 2024
I know a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet here these days. It doesn’t come up often in daily conversations in my circles because of a confluence of societal pressure, feelings of shame in admitting you’re struggling to get…
July 2024
Ken Walcheck
As a retired wildlife biologist, I am quite concerned with the extent and magnitude of the world-wide shift of a changing and warming climate and collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution now occurring. I am also concerned that a segment…
