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Polling data
February 27, 2023 / News

Latest Polling Data

Above is some highlighted information about a public poll that includes a number of questions about the Montana Constitution … ...
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February 19, 2023 / News

Roger Wagner, 80, Montana ConCon Delegate from Nashua Passes

The world lost a beloved Montanan on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 when Roger Wagner of Nashua passed from congestive heart failure. He was a family man who loved celebrations and was dedicated to making his community a better place.
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February 15, 2023 / News

Bill to make nonpartisan races partisan draws opposition

Lewis and Clark County Justice of the Peace Mike Swingley told Montana Senate State Administration Committee that he cannot imagine what adding partisan politics to nonpartisan races would do to his job. He has had to avoid the pressure of his own mother, who once called to tell him to go easy on a man in jail because she knew the man’s mother.
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February 15, 2023 / News

UM Unveils New Online Resource About Montana Constitution

February 10, 2023 cholars from the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center and Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the...
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February 11, 2023 / News

Chair breaks with Democrats to pass a legislative map, completing redistricting process

Redistricting Commission Chair Maylinn Smith broke with Democrats to pass Montana’s legislative map on Saturday, marking the end of over three years of work from the commission. Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission voted 3-2, with Republicans opposed, on a map to divide the state into 100 house districts, with 50 senate district pairings after accepting recommendations from the legislature on their tentative map proposed in December.
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Opinion

Emily Cross
March 10, 2025 / Opinion

Montana’s 1972 Con-Con Delegates: Citizens, not Copper Kings

By Emily Cross, Published in the Missoulian on March 8, 2025 Fifty-three years ago, Montana underwent a remarkable transformation that...
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Governor Marc Racicot
February 13, 2025 / Opinion

Invasion of the Judicial Branch

By Marc Racicot, published in the Daily Inter Lake on February 13, 2025.  Before entering upon the duties of his...
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February 8, 2025 / Opinion

Getting to Know the Montana Constitution

By Susan Byorth Fox, published in the Missoulian on February 8, 2025 I am honored to chair Friends of the...
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February 2, 2025 / Opinion

‘Gubernatorial Privilege’ decision yet another barrier to transparency in Montana

By Addie Slanger, Published in the Daily Inter Lake on February 2, 2025 In its second decision of the new...
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January 21, 2025 / Opinion

The Jewels of the Montana Constitution

By Jon Ellingson, published in the Helena Independent Record, January 21, 2025 Last month the Montana Supreme Court issued two...
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