For the first time in 30 years the U.S. Census awarded Montana a second seat in Congress. Today, the state’s districting and apportionment commission will select district boundaries in essence dividing the Treasure State in half. With little common ground between the commission’s two Republican and two Democratic members much of the decision m...
Senator Tester Feeling Push To Support Climate Change Reconciliation
Congress is considering a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that includes significant investments to address climate change. Thursday care packages were delivered to state offices of Senator Jon Tester urging him to support the measure. Caitlin Piserchia with the Montana chapter of the Sierra Club says it’s crucial to act on clima...
Congressional Candidate Zinke Critical of U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
As the United States continues to evacuate citizens and allies out of Afghanistan, many elected officials have criticized the withdrawal in recent weeks. Montana Congressional Candidate Ryan Zinke was recently on Voices of Montana and did not mince words directed at the Biden Administration. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/...
2020 Census Data T Be Released Next Week
2020 census used for drawing congressional and legislative districts will be released next Thursday. The data will cover geographies as small as neighborhoods and as large as states. The information was supposed to be released at the end of March but was pushed back to August to give bureau statisticians more time to crunch the numbers which c...
As of Wednesday, 320 applications have been made in the state for water and sewer grants totaling $919.7 million. The Legislature put $906 million toward those types of projects from the roughly $900 million it divvied up in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding. More than $2 billion is coming to the state under the law Congress passed earl...