When it comes to water at the 64th Montana Legislature, there tends to be one bill on everybody’s mind – the Consolidated Salish Kootenai Tribes Water Compact – but that’s not the only water issue that people are fighting over at the capitol.
With the transmittal deadline for bills with money attached to them approaching, the Montana Senate passed the last remaining Medicaid expansion bill of the session on a preliminary vote.
Nobody argues that investment in Montana’s mental health care system is needed, but exactly how and where is turning into one of the longest and most complicated debates of the Legislative session.
Sen. Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, sat in his office recently and talked about why he supports school choice, a nationwide movement to increase access to charter and private schools.