Opinion

Good time to think about physical activity

With a shift from Winter to Spring, it is a good time to think about our physical activity and wellness. Spring is a great time to take advantage of our beautiful Montana outdoors. Physical activity has many benefits for health for people of all ages, such as reducing risks of chronic disease like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Health care costs of $117 billion and 10% of adult premature deaths are linked to less than recommended physical activity levels in the US. In Montana 75% of our adults and 72% of our youth do not meet the national physical activity recommendations.

Stardust

25 YEARS AGO (1997)

Fire is a bipartisan problem, it should involve a bipartisan solution

Fire season has already started in the southwest, as Arizona and New Mexico suffer from wildfires magnified by climate disruption, a lack of forest thinning and planned burning. In Montana, we’re in our spring burning season as landowners both public and private burn piles of slash and conduct broadcast burns to prepare for our own fire season.

Proposed Initiative 191 would hurt river access

I have spent nearly 20 years guiding anglers on Montana rivers and streams in Southwest Montana. After 10 years as a guide, I became an outfitter in 2015 and have been operating my small business ever since. Montana, and its waters, are treasures.

Stardust

25 YEARS AGO (1997)

Montanans rule

All of us who love Montana are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the state’s Constitution that keeps the power of Americans’ right to vote in the hands of Montana’s citizens.

We need to take the fentanyl crisis more seriously

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The United States is in the grips of a fentanyl crisis that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves.

Children aren’t told that great-grandpa passed away

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DEAR ABBY: My daughter-in-law, “Brooke,” lost her grandfather five weeks ago. She has chosen not to tell her 4- and 10-year-old kids about it. She has ordered my husband, me and our son not to mention it. The kids see her grandmother at least once a week, and SHE is not supposed to tell them either.

Organic BS

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Activists have convinced Americans that “organic” food is better — healthier, bettertasting, life-extending.

“Privacy”: Some animals are more equal than others

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On May 9, The Hill reports, the US Senate passed — with unanimous consent! — a bill to “formally allow the Supreme Court of the United States Police to provide around-the-clock protection to [the justices’] family members, in line with the security some executive and congressional officials get.”