2020 Election
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 25: Democrat Bryce Bennett’s Run For Secretary Of State
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The five-term legislator says he sees an opportunity for the state election administrator to be ‘the chief advocate for voting in Montana.’
2020 Election
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 24: Democrat Raph Graybill’s Vision For Attorney General
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Raph Graybill, currently Gov. Steve Bullock’s chief legal counsel, is one of multiple Democrats seeking to be Montana’s next top attorney.
2020 Election
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 22: Republican Jon Bennion vying for Attorney General
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Jon Bennion has been Republican Attorney General Tim Fox’s #2 at the Montana Department of Justice for more than six years. Now he wants the top job.
News
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 18: A view from the right
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House Majority Whip Derek Skees reflects on conservative losses in the 2019 Legislature. “Democrats got everything they wanted.”
Dark Money
How the IRS gave up fighting political dark money groups
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Six years after it was excoriated for allegedly targeting conservative organizations, the agency has largely given up on regulating an entire category of nonprofits. The result: More dark money gushes into the political system.
politics
Anti-‘fraud’ bill draws supporters of Montana political central committee reform
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Certain county central committees have become hotbeds for an ideological power struggle among Montana’s Republicans. A GOP-sponsored bill seeks to stem those skirmishes.
Montana Lowdown
MT Lowdown – Episode 5: The Dean
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Retired Lee Newspapers capitol bureau chief Chuck Johnson discusses the current state of journalism, the “gross abuse” of the legislative process over the past few legislative sessions, and the untold news stories he hopes to read about in the coming months.
Podcast
MT Lowdown – Episode 3: Newsroom Roundtable
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Montana Free Press reporter Leia Larsen and independent data journalist Eric Dietrich talk about what inspires them to pursue the news, and their hopes for the future of nonprofit journalism.