Cost of higher education getting out of reach

According to the Chinese Education Center, the budget for tuition-free higher education in China increased by 45 percent from 2007 to 2011 and has continued a similar pace. Enrollment is over 35 million, up from 9 million in 2001. These are indicators of a culture on the rise. Since 2010, …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Cost of higher education getting out of reach

According to the Chinese Education Center, the budget for tuition-free higher education in China increased by 45 percent from 2007 to 2011 and has continued a similar pace. Enrollment is over 35 million, up from 9 million in 2001. These are indicators of a culture on the rise. Since 2010, …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Time for the U.S. to put money where its education is

According to the Chinese Education Center Ltd., the budget for tuition-free higher education in China increased by 45 percent from 2007 to 2011 and has continued a similar pace. Enrollment is over 35 million, up from 9 million in 2001. These are indicators of a culture on the rise.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Time for the U.S. to put money where its education is

According to the Chinese Education Center Ltd., the budget for tuition-free higher education in China increased by 45 percent from 2007 to 2011 and has continued a similar pace. Enrollment is over 35 million, up from 9 million in 2001. These are indicators of a culture on the rise.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Wealthy blind to the real problems and solutions

Scott Fitzgerald once said that the wealthy are different from us.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Helping Montana's workers, combine startup success with better wages, free college

Jobs and better jobs will be an important issue in the upcoming gubernatorial campaign.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: What (or who) is holding down wages?

It appears that one of the major issues in the upcoming campaign for governor will be how to get high paying jobs for Montanans.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS AGO

OPINION: Don't let yourself be led astray from your values by fear and rhetoric

That all humans are created equal. Equal justice under law. Together these two principles are the foundation and heart of government by the people and for the people.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: FVCC's proposal for education degree questioned

FVCC is exploring the possibility of a joint bachelors degree in education with the College of Education at the University of Montana. I question the wisdom of this.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

OPINION: Teachers need assistance to do jobs properly

The profession of teaching requires life-long learning. In fact, there is no way, in a single lifetime, that a teacher can learn as much as one needs to know about the subject one teaches and about how young people learn. (That’s one of the attractions of the job.) Professionals need …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Montana needs to return to tuition-free higher education

By ROBERT O’NEIL
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

An economic future you would not pick

Recently, the Inter Lake picked up an AP report of a survey of Harvard Business School graduates, 40 percent of whom were CEOs.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Why Medicaid makes sense...

Some thoughts about medical care and the public good. Having been well-insured, I have lingering guilt about the cost of the elective surgeries I have had. The conditions I had would likely have become disabling, but they were not life threatening.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Valid water treaty may protect Montana later

A thought about water negotiations from one who well remembers the proposal to raise Flathead Lake. In not too many years the farmers of California and the Southwest together with the citizens of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix will be pounding on doors in Washington, D.C., demanding our water.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Raising minimum wage won't hurt

The war on wage earners, like any other war, requires propaganda. Example: the Feb. 27 Inter Lake editorial, “Don’t rush to raise minimum wage.” Propaganda works when it doesn’t mention the facts and it is also safe to assume the readers are ignorant of them. The editorial implies that raising …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Public needs to invest in higher education for all

The Legislature passed a university budget that includes funds for freezing tuition costs. There is a hook. In the second year of the funding the distribution of the funds must be (what is called) performance-based (rather than enrollment-based) funding.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

It's time to bring college tuition down to zero for Montana students

College tuition will stifle Montana’s economic growth in the 21st century, and we will not be able to compete in the world market.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO