Key Points Classroom teachers hold the most important positions in Montana public schools because they are the ones educating students every day. Montana teachers experience persistent low pay and even layoffs despite public school funding steadily increasing the past 6+ years. Since 2017, administration costs for Montana public schools have increased by 4.7% while money...
"Policy should improve the lives of citizens by increasing and upholding the individual’s freedom and dignity. The system should not be superior to the individual."
"Bitcoin mining breaks the scarcity mindset in energy generation by enabling utility companies to dispose of excess amounts of power without suffering a loss."
"All of us should be proud of what Nicky Winton did to save so many, and proud of Montana’s Jewish heritage too."
"Providing clear definitions should be a primary focus of any MEPA reforms."
"Regardless of perspective, our current permitting process and the litigation it fosters undoubtedly led to the demise of the Coyote Wind project."
"I don’t think the ‘Montana Miracle’ is a one-time fluke. I think it can represent a new paradigm of politics in Montana, where the left and right join together in common belief that Montanans must be free to build, innovate, and progress in order to overcome the biggest challenges facing our state."
Key Points Critical minerals are essential to modern technology and energy production, particularly for clean energy and semiconductors. Despite their importance to the global economy, the critical minerals supply chain faces major bottlenecks due to reliance on adversarial foreign nations with few environmental protections, in addition to significant barriers to utilizing our own domestic supply. ...
Key Points: Right now, 90% of Montanans, especially educators and parents, do not have the liberty to educate their own children free of prescriptive regulations. While Montana Public Schools spend around 57% of their total funding on instruction and student services, innovative private and micro-schools in Montana spend 80% or greater, and also have been...
"Now is the perfect time to nurture Montanans’ entrepreneurial spirit to have this technology be home-grown right here. Montana is a great place to live – it’s time we make it a great place to build decentralized innovations."
"Fort Benton, Montana, is right to take pride in the man for whom it is named."
I haven’t met a single Montanan who feels comfortable with our state’s current tax system. Just about everyone wants tax relief and is looking for answers. And unfortunately, there are no silver bullets to reform. I’ve tried to keep the following truths in mind as I’ve considered my own views about tax reform in Montana.
"The Middleman Project is a textbook example of how our federal and state environmental permitting processes are broken and fuel litigation that harms our most critical projects, even those that will ultimately be good for our environment."