ARTICLES BY AN UPDATE FROM SENATOR FIELDER

Let's really reduce the cost of healthcare

We all know something is very wrong with the cost of health care in this country. But is the answer more bureaucracy or less?

VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

A wicked problem

As Montana’s top natural resource administrators laid out the grim forecast for this year’s fire season, it became clear that many Western states face the worst wildfire conditions in recorded history. Fuel loads are so high in some areas we are literally just one spark away from record setting catastrophic …

VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

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The War for Independence

By the time independence was declared July 4, 1776, colonial Americans had already endured decades of heavy handed British rule. The war actually broke out 14 months prior when 700 British regulars secretly dispatched under cover of darkness to capture colonial arms at Concord. Tensions had been building for years, …

VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO