Volunteers started collecting signatures earlier this month hoping to place Constitutional Initiative 121 on the ballot in November which would slow the rate of growing residential property taxes. Legislators decided to postpone a vote on the proposal last week while a court battle plays out is Lewis and Clark County District Court. Judge Mich...
Fentanyl Overdoses Spike In Helena
Law enforcement in Helena says fentanyl-laced heroin is to blame for more than a dozen overdoses in the last three days. Over the same time frame officers saved four individuals by administering Narcan to stop the effects of an overdose which is unprecedented. Sheriff Leo Dutton. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1-21...
Public-Private Program Providing Construction Funding For Montana Businesses
The Montana Down Payment Assistance Program a public-private partnership between the State of Montana and Montana’s banks, credit unions and economic development agencies. It’s helping finance acquisition of equipment purchase of real estate or buildings with improvements and new construction for existing Montana businesses. Low fixed in...
Native American Voters Voice Concerns Over Montana’s New Voting Laws
It was a long struggle for Native Americans to gain the right to vote and they still face barriers. Keaton Sunchild with the nonpartisan voting organization Native Voice in Montana says Indigenous people still are also dealing with racist narratives as well. Even state lawmakers have questioned why trial members have the right to vote and that...
Montanans Reimbursed For Precious Metals Scam
A nationwide scheme affecting 15 Montanans who collectively invested more than $2.9 million in precious metals has been settled by the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Troy Downing. Victims were manipulated and lied to by representatives of Metals.com to invest in precious metals and can now apply to the Montana Securities Restitution ...
Former Governor Appointed To Public Land Foundation
Former Montana Governor Steve Bullock has been named a founding member of the Foundation for America’s Public Lands by Secretary of the Interior Deb Halland. It will help leverage public and private dollars to conserve protect and restore lands more than 245 million acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in 12 western sta...
Additional Funding Announced To Fight Wildfires In 2022
The Biden administration plans to significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires and has crafted a $50 billion plan to more than double the use of controlled fires and logging to reduce trees and other vegetation that serve as tinder in the most at-risk areas. There have been rare winter blazes in recent weeks including infer...
Supporter Of Capping Montana Tax Rates Clarifies What Proposed Initiative Would Do
A constitutional initiative that would cap the rate of growing property taxes may be on the midterm ballot. It has some Montanans worrying that would have certain unwanted consequences. Matthew Monforton is a proponent for CI-121 and said on Voices of Montana recently this would not be the case. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uplo...
Montana CPA Details IRS Challenges With 2021 Tax Returns
Many federal tax filers have yet to receive their returns from 2021 but the Internal Revenue Service begins the 2022 tax season Monday. With this in mind, Montana CPA for Eide Bailey Ronald Yates Jr. advises Montanans to file early electronically and with as little paperwork as possible. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022...
Montana Begins Distribution Of Rapid COVID-19 Tests
Rapid tests for COVID-19 have begun to arrive across Montana and Tuesday the federal government activated the website covidtests.gov where free at-home COVID-19 tests can be ordered. University of Washington Medicine Pathologist Dr. Geoff Baird says rapid antigen tests are a good go-to if you are feeling sick which maybe be COVID-19 symptoms. ...