Opinion
Gazette opinion: Prescription for more of the doctors Montana needs
Nearly all of Montana’s 56 counties are designated primary-care shortage areas, according to information from the Montana Primary Care Office in Helena. Some have no primary care doctors at all, some don’t have enough and some are short of doctors to serve low-income folks. Yellowston…
Nov 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Rehberg opposes legislation that would bring clean energy jobs to Montana
Earlier this year, when given a clear choice between supporting new clean energy jobs for Montana or continuing to line the pockets of the big oil companies, Rep. Denny Rehberg sided with Big Oil.
Nov 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Gazette opinion: Time for high court to follow public mandate
Montana’s Constitution guarantees citizens the right to know what government officials and public employees are doing or have done in their publicly funded jobs.
Nov 24, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Guest opinion: Perils abound with any decision on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Harry Truman famously had that placard on his Oval Office that said, simply, “The Buck Stops Here.” Never has it been more appropriate than now in describing Barack Obama’s agonizing deliberations on America’s role ahead in Afghanistan.
Nov 24, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Gazette opinion: Montana’s future depends on raising fit kids
Montana has a great opportunity to quell the epidemic of childhood obesity that threatens America’s health and economy.
Nov 23, 2009 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Gazette opinion: Check out other options before picking library plan
There’s no doubt that our library is heavily used. But it’s not used as well as it could be. A building designed as a library would allow for better supervision of young patrons. A well-designed library would offer easy access for people with disabilities. A good 21st-century libr…
Nov 22, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Columnists
Does robotic war make killing too easy?
In his book “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century,” P.W. Singer — director of the Brookings Institute’s 21st-Century Defense Initiative — describes our use of lethal pilotless drone planes in Iraq and Afghanistan by noting that the pilots direc…
Nov 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
David Broder: Public expects health legislation would add to deficit
WASHINGTON — It’s simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.
Nov 24, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Financial assault on young Americans continues
WASHINGTON — One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors the future. This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics, it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly …
Nov 23, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Obama seeks least worst solution to permanent war
WASHINGTON — When there is no good solution to a problem, a president has three options. One is to avoid the problem. The second is to pick the least bad of the available options. The third is to mix and match among the proposed solutions and minimize the long-term damage any decision w…
Nov 23, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Cokie Roberts & Steven V. Roberts: Deadly triumph of statistics over women’s health
What were they thinking? A panel of scientists has issued guidelines for breast cancer screening that could undo years of education and advocacy that have saved tens of thousands of lives. In a report that smacks of health care rationing, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends…
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
E.J. Dionne: America would benefit from civilian ROTC
WASHINGTON — Imagine a time when government work was exciting, widely admired and much sought after.
Nov 19, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
David Broder: Obama should take general’s Afghanistan advice quickly
WASHINGTON — The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.
Nov 18, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Robert J. Samuelson: ‘Reform’ bills expand benefits without controlling costs
WASHINGTON — There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called “health care reform.” Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. Recov…
Nov 17, 2009 | 7:55 pm | Loading…
George Will: Historic war photo fabricated death scene
NEW YORK — The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combata…
Nov 17, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
The buck stops nowhere in Washington
The good news: Both parties finally agree on an important element of public policy.
Nov 15, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
