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By the Numbers: standardized test scores
Percentage of Montana high school students who tested as “novice” in math on standardized tests continues a steady decline.
What does Montana’s ‘born-alive’ referendum have to do with abortion?
When voters review their ballots in November, the only mention of abortion they see will be in the eye-catching language of LR-131, a referendum on the Montana Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. But the measure’s actual link to abortion, according to medical professionals organizing against the referendum, is divorced from medical fact.
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Montana coronavirus report
The latest news and information on the coronavirus pandemic in Montana, including updated case count maps and original in-depth reporting.
Montana health department now “intends to comply” with judge’s birth certificate order
The Montana state health department said Monday it now intends to comply with last week’s district court order in which a Billings judge instructed the agency to reinstate a process for allowing transgender Montanans to update the sex on their birth certificates.
A Montana abortion provider surveys a landscape of political threats
As Montana ends up an island of abortion access in the northern Rockies, Whitefish abortion provider Helen Weems is warily watching the political forces that, amid gains for their cause, would celebrate the closure of her clinic.
Transgender athlete bill declared ‘unconstitutional’
Gallatin County District Court Judge Rienne McElyea ruled three laws passed by Republicans in 2021 to be “unconstitutional” this week, including one that barred transgender athletes from competing on collegiate women’s sports teams.
Smoke frustrates school sports scene
A rivalry girls soccer match between Hamilton and Corvallis high schools has been rescheduled twice this month due to bad air quality in the Bitterroot Valley — just one example of how wildfire smoke is frustrating the school sports scene.
Education regs revised per public comment
The Board of Public Education reviewed public comment on a raft of regulatory revisions, opting to reinsert language removed by Superintendent Elsie Arntzen.
Montana’s bruising birth certificate battle
PLUS: Another special session call bites the dust.
State health department defies judge’s order on birth certificates
The Montana state health department said Thursday it will not abide a district court judge’s order to temporarily reinstate a 2017 rule allowing transgender Montanans to update the sex listed on their birth certificates.
Montana health department seeks to ax board that hears public assistance appeals
A new proposal in the Department of Public Health and Human Services 2023 legislative package would eliminate the Board of Public Assistance. For about 70 years, the board has heard appeals from people who are denied benefits such as Medicaid, TANF, and SNAP, but it is in the crosshairs now amid Gov. Gianforte’s efforts to…
Railroads, labor agree to tentative deal avoiding network shutdown
With less than 24 hours to go before much of the nation’s rail network could have come to a screeching halt, President Joe Biden announced early Thursday morning that a tentative deal has been brokered between the nation’s largest freight railroads and labor unions representing tens of thousands of railroaders. Now union members get to…
Rising rivers don’t necessarily follow the lines on a map
June’s record-breaking flooding in Montana illustrates the importance of risk mapping for people living in the floodplain.
The gospel — and the GOP — according to J.D. Hall
From his seat of power in Sidney, pastor J.D. Hall cultivated a religious and political following as a conservative firebrand and online impresario. Then came the fall.
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