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Montana Capitol building. This week, Montana lawmakers gaveled into the second half of the legislative session. Republicans are advancing major conservative priorities, including a tax cut package. It harkens back to the last time the GOP controlled both the Legislature and governor’s office. “During the session people will put out buttons for their bills sometimes," says retired 43-year government reporter Chuck Johnson as he rummages through drawers and drawers of political buttons in his Helena home. “This was a button that came out memorializing the passage of deregulation in a bad ...

Theatre and arts programs trying to bounce back after a hard year of adjustments Theatre and arts programs trying to bounce back after a hard year of adjustments By Chet Landry | March 9, 2021 at 7:52 AM CST - Updated March 9 at 7:53 AM BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Among the hardest hit industries during the first year of the pandemic are the theatre and the arts. The places that people usually turn to for a departure from the stresses of the world were forced to shutter. As the one year anniversary of Mississippi’s first COVID case, theatre officials are reflecting on the last year and ...

February 16, 2021 Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently decided the national anthem would not be played at Mavericks’ home games, citing his desire to listen to voices of “those who feel that the anthem doesn’t represent them.” But to me, a Chinese immigrant, Cuban’s decision did not feel inclusive, but ignorant of what the anthem does represent. I never went to a professional sports event when I was growing up in China. At the time, all professional teams were run by the Chinese government, and athletes were treated as state employees. Most of them beg...

Shortly after this article was published, Steve Schmidt, another co-founder of the group, resigned from the board after controversy over the public disclosure of a private Twitter direct message between former Lincoln Project co-founder Jennifer Horn and a reporter. "That direct message should never have been made public. It is my job as the senior leader to accept responsibility for the tremendous misjudgment to release it," Schmidt said. In a letter announcing his resignation, Schmidt apologized to Horn, who recently quit the group, and revealed he had been sexually molested by a medic whil...

Shortly after this article was published, Steve Schmidt, another co-founder of the group, resigned from the board after controversy over the public disclosure of a private Twitter direct message between former Lincoln Project co-founder Jennifer Horn and a reporter. "That direct message should never have been made public. It is my job as the senior leader to accept responsibility for the tremendous misjudgment to release it," Schmidt said. In a letter announcing his resignation, Schmidt apologized to Horn, who recently quit the group, and revealed he had been sexually molested by a medic whil...