By Joel Krautter First published in the Missoulian on July 12, 2025 When a decision can impact your life, whether it’s your freedom, your constitutional rights, or how much you’re going to pay in taxes when you go out for dinner or go shopping, wouldn’t...
By Mae Nan Ellingson, 1972 Constitutional Convention Delegate First Published in The Missoulian June 14, 2025 Montana’s 1972 Constitution has been described by some as “progressive” and it was indeed written to move our State forward for “this and future...
By Dorothy Bradley, First Published in the Montana Standard and Helena Independent Record on May 3, 2025 Bob Brown and I are the only two living former legislators who served both before and after the passage of Montana’s new Constitution in 1972. Republican and...
By Bob Brown, Published in The Daily Montanan on April 17, 2025 and in The Western News on April 22, 2025. Only a handful of us who served in the legislature under the old 1889 Montana Constitution still survive. That constitution reflected the dominant power of the...
March 18, 2025: A Guest Column by Six Living Delegates to the Montana Constitutional Convention Mae Nan Ellingson, Gene Harbaugh, Jerome Loendorf, Lyle Monroe, Marshall Murray, & Lynn Sparks Keeley As six of the seven living delegates to the 1972 Montana...
