Wednesday, April 30, 2025

ARTICLES BY BILL BAUM

How to run against Sen. Tester

I know U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. I did my best to help elect him for both of his senatorial campaigns in the past. He is affable, poised, gregarious, articulate, a good public speaker, a good fund-raiser, and charismatic. It will be difficult for any new Democrat candidate to defeat him …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

How to run against Sen. Tester

I know U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. I did my best to help elect him for both of his senatorial campaigns in the past. He is affable, poised, gregarious, articulate, a good public speaker, a good fund-raiser, and charismatic. It will be difficult for any new Democrat candidate to defeat him …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Wake up, you Trumpsters - you elected a madman

So what will it take for undereducated, uninformed Montanans to realize they voted in a madman as president of the United States? After all they don’t read, don’t watch real TV news, have no idea what Trump actually does as POTUS. They get all their false information from a phony …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Wake up, you Trumpsters - you elected a madman

So what will it take for undereducated, uninformed Montanans to realize they voted in a madman as president of the United States? After all they don’t read, don’t watch real TV news, have no idea what Trump actually does as POTUS. They get all their false information from a phony …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Is the system stacked against grizzly bear?

The spring Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem meeting was held in Kalispell on April 25. The committee is composed of more than 20 people who are mostly on the payroll of various government agencies, with some few exceptions from other organizations: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; Glacier National Park; US Fish …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Is the system stacked against grizzly bear?

The spring Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem meeting was held in Kalispell on April 25. The committee is composed of more than 20 people who are mostly on the payroll of various government agencies, with some few exceptions from other organizations: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; Glacier National Park; US Fish …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Zinke needs to remember the wildlife

I wrote to Ryan Zinke to congratulate him on his many successes in life, especially the latest pending appointment and congressional acceptance as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior ... which includes eight different resource agencies, excluding only the Forest Service (which is under the Department …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Zinke needs to remember the wildlife

I wrote to Ryan Zinke to congratulate him on his many successes in life, especially the latest pending appointment and congressional acceptance as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior ... which includes eight different resource agencies, excluding only the Forest Service (which is under the Department …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Vote for Clinton, not 'next Hitler'

I am saddened and disillusioned that the country I was born into, the United States of America, is sliding down so far. The wildlife is always in danger of losing their habitat needed to survive and the entire planet is beginning a sixth mass extinction due to upcoming extreme climate …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Gov. Bullock doesn't get it on environment

I am writing this to communicate with Gov. Steve Bullock. He is not inclined to reply to my e-mails to him, other than an occasional letter on the governor’s official stationery … perhaps written by his staff. He does seem to personally reply to my op-eds about him in newspapers …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Is the system working against grizzly bears?

When I first arrived in Badrock Canyon, Montana, near Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness 15 years ago, after moving here from taking early retirement from an aerospace engineering career in Denver, Colorado, in order to help save the grizzly bear from the likes of Dr. Chris Servheen …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

What if Trump is elected President?

What if Donald Trump never intended for things to get this far? What if he actually only intended to destroy the Republican Party and things got out of hand?
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: A tribute to Dr. Chuck Jonkel

The highly intelligent, much esteemed by everyone who knew him or heard of him, renowned worldwide, Dr. Chuck Jonkel, of grizzly bear and polar bear behavioral scientific research fame and advocate for their survival, passed away April 12 in Missoula, at age 85.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: For Hillary Clinton and for a better policy on wildlife

During this election year of voter frenzy over human issues it is easy for opinion page writers and editors to forget about the wildlife we share this country and the planet with. Except for the Native American Indians and us environmentalists, everyone else forgets to be good stewards of the …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Republicans who run as Democrats and vice versa

If moderate Republicans have the desire to be elected to public office, they must first win the primary contest. Unfortunately for them, they cannot defeat conservative Republicans in a primary election in Montana. This leaves them no alternative, if they wish to serve in government, but to run as a …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS AGO

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