Eastern Montana Congressman, fascist and freedom-hating Matt Rosendale also hates our public lands, wanting them managed for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy…

From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2023/05/24/rosendale-calls-blm-activist-organization-ahead-of-hearing-on-land-conservation-proposal/? BLM, conservation, The Mountain Pact

From our man-caused climate change section: incredibly, Montana is already experiencing wildfire smoke season, as record high temps plague the Pacific NW, wildfires burn in Canada & the MT legislature makes things worse…

From cnbc.com: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/wildfires-burn-millions-of-acres-in-canada-send-oil-prices-higher.html From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/12/gianforte-signs-climate-change-analysis-ban-into-law/ unprecedented drought, tar sands oil, climate change denial, Gianforte, HB971

The Republican approach to every problem seems to be the same: prohibit people and communities from deciding what’s best for themselves — the affordable housing crisis is no different (of course, no mention of not advertising Montana, anymore)…

From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/10/how-the-montana-legeislature-tried-to-tackle-housing-crunch/? There are simply too many people in Montana now. Our environment and infrastructure is suffering because of too many people....

As Red Lodge decides the fate of local recycling, perhaps plastic “recycling” should be abandoned, since only a tiny fraction of plastic is “recycled” (and, even then, it’s not really recycled), & people encouraged to just stop using plastic instead…

Recycling reduces the cost of Red Lodge's solid waste management system, since less solid waste has to be hauled to the landfill when people are...

In these times of man-caused climate change we can throw the “500-year-flood” and similar jargon out the window — Red Lodge is still cleaning up but who knows what will happen this year…

From The Billings Gazette: https://billingsgazette.com/news/red-lodge-hustles-to-repair-last-junes-flood-damage-before-this-years-runoff/article_85052e2e-ccc6-11ed-b8ba-8bfa7e5fe185.html?