Healthier Forests Mean a Healthier Planet
Healthier Forests Mean a Healthier Planet
There’s no way around it: you simply cannot claim to support addressing climate change on the one hand while opposing proven and practical forest management to help reduce the risk of massive forest fires on the other.
By Kendall Cotton
Responding to Myths About Housing Regulation
Responding to Myths About Housing Regulation
The research consensus is clear that strict regulations discourage affordable housing by adding thousands to costs and stifling development.
By Kendall Cotton
Residents Want a Well-Rounded Approach to Affordable Housing
Residents Want a Well-Rounded Approach to Affordable Housing
"Residents appear to understand that subsidies will fall short if they are not accompanied by regulatory reforms that reduce barriers to housing supply. Local leaders ought to take note."
By Kendall Cotton
A Bucket List for New Montanans
A Bucket List for New Montanans
For those just moving here, I offer a warm welcome to Montana. Spend a little time going off the beaten path, get to know the state and its people, and I’m sure you’ll fit right in.
By Kendall Cotton
Regulations Crush Environmental Innovation
Regulations Crush Environmental Innovation
The Cahoons’ story is a stark reminder of how excessive red tape can crush the dreams of entrepreneurs and stifle innovative solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.
By Kendall Cotton
Turning to Taxpayers Should be Politicians’ Last Resort
Turning to Taxpayers Should be Politicians’ Last Resort
By focusing on enabling citizens to control their lives, governments will provide the maximum freedom for innovators, disruptors and entrepreneurs to do what they do best and solve society’s problems.
By Kendall Cotton
Slashing Red Tape Will Grow Montana’s Workforce
Slashing Red Tape Will Grow Montana’s Workforce
In addressing Montana’s workforce shortage, Gianforte is right to focus on making apprentice-to-journeyman ratios more flexible for employers.
By Kendall Cotton
The Conservative Case for Affordable Housing
The Conservative Case for Affordable Housing
By rejecting progressive era urban planning regulations like single-family zoning, minimum lot sizes, setbacks and parking requirements, conservatives favor restoring the original vision of property rights and economic freedom held by America’s founders.
By Kendall Cotton
Time To Draw The Line On Facial Recognition
Time To Draw The Line On Facial Recognition
As the faces of more Montanans are logged in government facial recognition systems, lawmakers need to be looking at how to better protect our privacy.
By Kendall Cotton
Making A Difference After Election Day
Making A Difference After Election Day
From my experience, average Montanans who engage with their local representatives directly and peacefully can truly make a difference.
By Kendall Cotton
There’s Nothing Fair About Inflation
There’s Nothing Fair About Inflation
Given the disproportionate harm done to lower-income people, fueling inflation by adding trillions to the national debt hardly seems fair to working Montanans.
By Kendall Cotton
Pandemic exposed the flaws of one-size-fits-all education
Pandemic exposed the flaws of one-size-fits-all education
Let educators choose how to teach and parents choose the best education for their kids.
By Kendall Cotton
How Montana Is Revolutionizing Healthcare—With Markets
How Montana Is Revolutionizing Healthcare—With Markets
If direct pay models became commonplace, they would empower and liberate both patients and doctors and do more to bring down costs than other healthcare reforms.
By Lawrence Reed
More Work Needed To Expand Access To Health Care
More Work Needed To Expand Access To Health Care
"Reducing the red tape and burdensome regulations imposed on the health care system has proven an effective and cost-conscious way to expand access in Montana, but more needs to be done."
By Kendall Cotton