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Across the United States, communities are facing an acute housing affordability crisis. Rents and homelessness are rising while home ownership feels increasingly out of reach for millions.

What’s driving that crisis? Increased corporate control over our housing market — by billionaire investors and their for-profit entities. Their ability to purchase large swaths of homes with cash, is driving these trends and placing significant barriers to the preservation and creation of permanently affordable housing.

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In 1976, Montana voters said they had enough of Montana elected and appointed officials not being accountable to the voters. The voters decided, by a margin of 57.4% YES to 42.6% NO, to pass Initiative 73 – THE MONTANA RECALL AND ADVISORY RECALL ACT.

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Tanner Smith, the Montana Republican Party’s National Committeeman, declared at the Great Falls Pachyderm, on Friday, December 6, 2024, that he was running for state GOP chair in the party’s upcoming reorganization election in June.

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Imagine this: you’re standing on your family’s land—acreage your grandparents fought tooth and nail to clear, till, and nurture. It’s the land that’s put food on your table, paid for your kids’ braces, and kept your boots muddy and your soul clean. Now picture trading that land for rows of solar panels or wind turbines because someone far away thinks they’re saving the planet. Sounds noble, right?

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On Thursday the worlds largest meat packer JBS announced that it was paying $52.5 million to settle a price fixing lawsuit…and that’s all that was reported.

Beef Price Fixing:

 

Watts Inside ?

Across the country, a big backlash to new renewables is mounting based on the national security, financial, health, safety and environmental costs of wind and sun energy.

Utility scale solar and wind takes up a lot of land, requiring anywhere from 5 to 10 acres per megawatt. And there can be big drainage and sediment pollution problems if developers are careless. Wind turbines are huge and visible for miles.

They do kill thousands of birds and bats a year. They can catch fire or leak lubricating fluid that contain forever chemicals like PFAS (Poly Fluoro Alkyl Substances). Like other sources of power, they have their own set of problems.

From White House to Church House :

By the grace of God, I recently completed a long walk across the USA, and definitely not by the shortest or easiest route (thelongwalkusa.com). My daughter and I got our feet wet in the Atlantic off North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras in March of 2021; and just three months ago, we dipped our feet in the Pacific off the California coast.

Ensuring the Safety of Women – Bathroom :

Recently, I read Representative Brad Barker’s version of a rule change I offered at our Joint Rules Committee meeting in Helena. Joint, meaning House and Senate members together to set rules that will affect both chambers in the upcoming session beginning January 6th.