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Montana Connections

Monica Tranel

Montana issues that affect us all: land, water, natural resources, extreme concentration of wealth that closes us out from our public land and hurts our communities.

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SNAP is now restricted with a naughty list

In the fall of 2025 about 77,000 Montanans eligible for SNAP received their food assistance late. These households average $332 a month in benefits. SNAP benefits support families across the state:

Source: Montana Budget and Policy Center...

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The People’s House, then and now

On November 2, 1800, John Adams wrote to Abigail, on her way to the People’s House in Washington, D.C.

President Adams had spent his first night in the building. He called it habitable. He wrote:

“I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Bl...

5 days ago
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From JFK to Warm Springs

On Oct. 31, 1963, John F. Kennedy signed the last major bill of his presidency. The Community Mental Health Act promised that people with serious mental illness would be treated near home instead of in state institutions that could be as fa...

9 days ago
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Hunter’s Moon People’s Land

Today is the full moon sometimes called the Hunter’s Moon.

It’s also hunting season.

On May 13, Lieutenant Governor Kristen Juras told the Montana Environmental Quality Council that corner crossing amounts to trespass. The Montana Fish, W...

12 days ago
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Vote for our country

J.D. Vance says, ignore the policies, vote for the party.

Elections are our moment to hold the people making economic policy accountable.

Martin Wolf describes this in The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Penguin, 2023). Wolf argues that...

16 days ago
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