Montana Zoning Atlas Roundup
Montana Zoning Atlas Roundup
"Our leaders can adopt pro-housing reforms that give landowners the freedom to build new homes where they are needed most."
Pro-Housing Reforms
Pro-Housing Reforms
"Of the cities examined, 70% of primary residential areas either outright prohibit or penalize affordable multi-family housing development."
Making Montana a Home For Innovation
Making Montana a Home For Innovation
"Montana leaders have a choice to make: Either welcome crypto entrepreneurs or watch the economic activity generated by this fast-growing industry move elsewhere."
Securing Montanan’s Right to Privacy
Securing Montanan’s Right to Privacy
"So far, the committee has confirmed our suspicions: Montanans who apply for government benefits or receive a driver’s license are vulnerable to law enforcement searches of their biometric information with little legislative oversight."
Viewpoint: What About the Poor?
Viewpoint: What About the Poor?
"Lowering costs and improving quality is actually now happening without mandates and laws, and in spite of bureaucratic obstacles."
Introducing Frontier History
Introducing Frontier History
"This one sided narrative leaves out many of the compelling stories of Montana’s historical trail blazers that bucked that notion and sought out ways to improve Montana without relying on the government's favor or their purse."
Support For Facial Recognition Restrictions Grows
Support For Facial Recognition Restrictions Grows
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle now recognize that Montana’s lack of uniform and transparent restrictions on how government agencies can use facial recognition poses a serious threat to the privacy of Montanans.
Restoring The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Restoring The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Unencumbered by third party intervention, Fee-For-Service describes the physician-patient relationship as one that is based on the principle of mutually beneficial exchange of value between the physician and patient.
Montana Cities are the Problem, and the Solution to Housing
Montana Cities are the Problem, and the Solution to Housing
City governments are the problem with Montana’s housing crisis, but they could be part of the solution
Montana’s 2022 New Year’s Resolution
Montana’s 2022 New Year’s Resolution
Rule notices indicate the Red Tape Relief Initiative has already spurred large reductions in the state’s regulatory burden.
Viewpoint: What Is So Special About Direct Primary Care?
Viewpoint: What Is So Special About Direct Primary Care?
What makes Direct Primary Care special is that it is subject to real market forces, not legislated contrivances, and that the patient is a real customer, causing excellence and value to prevail.
Gallatin County and the Bozeman Fiber Boondoggle
Gallatin County and the Bozeman Fiber Boondoggle
Instead of trying and likely failing to get in the internet business themselves local officials should be focused on eliminating government barriers to hasten buildout.
Montana leads the way on forest projects
Montana leads the way on forest projects
Oftentimes the best stewards of the land are those directly affected by the outcomes of its management.
Good Neighbor Authority
Good Neighbor Authority
Over just a few years, Montana has proven a capable leader in conducting forest restoration work on federal lands under a Good Neighbor Authority agreement.