Last week, voting rights activists rejoiced in the Montana Supreme Court’s decision affecting the role of student IDs in voter registration.
Montana is a unique state. Our constitution, written in 1972, has a section protecting the beautiful wilderness we live within. Imagine taking a deep breath of clean, fresh air. Here in Montana that is a right we all possess. My name is Talia Burk and I am studying social work and communicat…
What do you picture when you think of Montana? Is it the huge swaths of hike-able nature? Our varied individual liberties? The nation’s best fishing and hunting? Or is it privacy from the chaos and prying of more populated states like California? Fifty years ago, Montanans decided that these…
Do you have any burning questions that you think the Kaimin Staff may be able to help you on? Things like: What soup should you eat at the UC Market? What you should do about the professor you really hate? What tattoo you should get next? You have come to the right place. The Kaimin Kolumn h…
The Montana Constitution is in peril and its consequential protections towards citizens are at risk. My name is Liam Edwards and I am an intern at the Montana Public Interest Research Group. The current Montana Constitution has offered protections for us for over 50 years. It guarantees our …
Last week, the University of Montana experienced a student’s death on campus.
We are writing to clear up confusion evident in the story “The mysterious graduate student union movement” published on September 7th. Some additional information will serve your readership well.
Coming from small town eastern Montana, and recently moving to western Montana for college, I’ve seen just about everything Montana’s land has to offer. There’s an underappreciated beauty to Montana’s rolling hills, shrubby grasslands, and rugged badlands. That being said, I love our state, …
Update: On Thursday, the judge who granted the preliminary injunction against a similar birth certificate law blocked the DPHHS ruling from going into effect. The enjoined case will return to trial next week.
The bears are back on the University of Montana’s campus and hungrier than ever. With fall rapidly approaching, bears are fattening up for the winter on more than just huckleberries and chokecherries.
Three years ago, telling a person that the University of Montana filled every bed on campus would make most people laugh at you. At times in 2019 and 2020, entire floors of some residence halls — like Knowles, Aber and Jesse — sat empty. Students could request a single room in Duniway Hall. …
For the first time in 10 years, Montanans are getting the opportunity to redraw the legislative districts in their communities. That means we can fight for diverse, competitive districts and maps that reflect our communities. Or we can let politicians gerrymander our communities into distric…
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