Carbon County residents choose to underfund local EMS services (for now), a former local pol & racist denies the reality of climate change, NorthWestern Energy shenanigans & more from the Sept 21 CC News…

County residents, in a low-turnout election with a confusing ballot, choose to keep funding for local EMS at 2010 levels, despite the tremendous growth in...

MT AG Knudsen is a right-wing extremist, a Christo-fascist and a forced birther who is weaponizing his office to attack health care providers…

From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/08/15/knudsen-suggests-planned-parenthood-of-montana-abets-human-trafficking/? anti-democracy, anti-public education, fascism, white supremacy, shameful, pseudo-Christian, MAGA

Local election conspiracy theorists Chip & Lisa Bennett, who have cost county taxpayers thousands with a frivolous lawsuit, have groomed a homeschooled (of course) child to oppose needing to be trained to be a lawyer…

From the Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/08/08/proposed-ballot-measure-would-strip-supreme-courts-ability-to-determine-who-can-become-a-lawyer-in-montana/? The nut apparently doesn't fall from the extreme right-wing tree. Sure, let's have anybody be an attorney and muck...

In the most recent CC News, letters to the editor include wise advice from a former mayor (“business experience” is no replacement for actually having experience in government) & another wacky letter from the local Republican women…

Brian Roat reminds us the being a "successful" businessman is no substitute for getting your feet wet in government service before seeking higher office (whether...

Yet more proof that ivermectin is only effective for helping political grifters con gullible MAGA cult members and QAnon adherents (sorry for the redundancy)… #MAGACult #Trump

From jamanetwork.com: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801828 Anti-science, anti-vaxxer, deadly misinformation, horse pill, dewormer, suckers, GOP, right-wing extremism

No thanks to right-wing extremist shills Justices Thomas and Alito, Supreme Court rejects anti-Constitutional “independent state legislature” theory embraced by some wacky Montana legislators…

From HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-election_n_6480ec03e4b027d92f8a4a3a Good read from the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/11/07/independent-state-legislature-theory-the-new-pitch-black/ And from Common Cause: https://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/6-reasons-the-far-rights-independent-state-legislature-theory-makes-no-sense/ Rosendale, far-right extremists, unAmerican, fascism, fascist, Christo-nationalism, MAGA cult, Trump,...

COVID may be forgotten but it’s definitely not gone – great read here answering your questions, including about the bivalent booster we should all get (if we haven’t already)…

From Johns Hopkins: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/common-questions-about-bivalent-covid-19-boosters#:~:text=How%20do%20I%20know%20if%20I've%20already%20gotten%20the,people%2012%20years%20and%20older. people still dying, vaccines work (of course), vaccines safe, anti-vaxxers getting people killed, right-wing extremism

A Carbon County local, on Facebook, recently ranted about alternative lifestyles being “in your face” and all over the news, perhaps he should ask Republican politicians to stop obsessing about culture wars, which keeps those issues in the news…

Besides being fascist and immoral, those culture wars are bad politics. From rollcall.com: https://rollcall.com/2023/03/31/republicans-fixation-on-trans-issues-could-backfire-pollsters-say/ fascism, pseudo-Christian, intolerance, try live and let live