Republicans, including Montana’s Steve Daines and Matt Rosendale, are “all hat and no cattle” when it comes to our nation’s southern border: they’re all about political stunts, distractions from their own failures and no courage to offer solutions…

From kut.org: https://www.kut.org/texas/2022-04-13/gov-abbotts-new-border-policies-spur-backlash-among-many-republicans-included DeSantis, Abbott, Florida, Texas, circus, obsession

Good reads here on why COVID may no longer be a pandemic, and how the virus is now endemic (but stay up-to-date on vaccinations and mask when appropriate)…

From nymag.com: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/biden-right-to-say-the-pandemic-is-over-on-60-minutes.html From the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/how-we-will-know-when-covid-19-has-become-endemic coronavirus, Parodi, AMA, masking, vaccination

A good read here on how our flooding in June exacerbated Montana’s affordable housing crisis, featuring Carbon County’s Fromberg (Gov. Gianforte might do well to read it)…

From High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-housing-when-a-housing-crisis-meets-a-megaflood? man-caused climate change, workforce housing, absent state leadership, Livingston, Clark's Fork, Red Lodge