Missoula County’s Republican Party spent two days and $5,000 reviewing public records finishing up Tuesday evening checking a hand-count done last year led by the Montana Election Integrity Project that insisted they uncovered a discrepancy of more than 4,500 votes compared with the official election results. Republican Secretary of State Chri...
Records Show Montana Paid Civil Rights Groups $60,000 In Keystone XL Lawsuit
Montana paid a civil liberties advocacy group more than $60,000 last year as part of a settlement after the state initially refused to release hundreds of documents related to its preparations for possible protests against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. Montana Lee Newspaper’s Montana State Bureau reports the money covered the AC...
Montana Hospitals Lacking COVID Information For Pregnant Women
Hospitals in Montana don’t universally have systems to collect information on how many pregnant women contract COVID-19 or the outcomes for their pregnancies and babies so the state doesn’t have detailed data either. According to a story by Holly Michels from Lee Newspapers Montana State Bureau the doctors who work with pregnant women say they...