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Two-thirds of Montana’s Congressional Delegation are up in arms over FBI Director James Comey’s refusal to recommend criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her email issues. Republican Senator Steve Daines said it seems that there is a double standard for Washington insiders and the rest of the American population. “Our country was founded on the principle of equal justice for all, not just for some,” Daines said. “Secretary Hillary Clinton should be held accountable. What Secretary Clinton has done is put our national security at risk, and it brings into question her ability to hold office.

The Havre City-County Airport is among four Montana airports that will share a $1,465,311 grant for construction projects, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said Wednesday. The airport will receive $144,900 to fund the design phase for the reconstruction of 15,000 square yards of the existing apron pavement that needs replacing. This project will fund the initial design phase for the rehabilitation of 3,700 feet of Taxiway A, 250 feet of Taxiway B, and 1,200 feet of Taxiway C needed to maintain structural integrity of the pavements, Daines said. Grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation will also be given

Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, went missing on July 3, 2013.  Her badly decomposed body was found five days later near the rodeo grounds on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Mont. Due to the decomposition of her body, it was impossible to determine an exact cause of death, but Eugenia Ann Rowland, of Pine Ridge, SD, admitted to beating her and pleaded guilty to second degree murder.  She was sentenced to 22 years in prison in February 2015, and her husband, Garrett Sidney Wadda, who Rowland said was also involved in the

U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management officials were in the hot seat recently as senators from Western states criticized the agencies’ top-down approach in new land use plans for sage grouse conservation. Senators chastised the agencies’ disregard of state input in federal plans announced last September as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision not to list the bird under the Endangered Species Act. They pointed out that the states’ investments in management plans and local collaboration have resulted in impressive increases in sage grouse populations and were critical factors in the decision not to list the

I can think of no better place to be than home in Montana to celebrate the Fourth of July. Over the holiday weekend I’ll be walking in the Livingston parade, honoring World War II Veteran Louis Armentaro and spending quality time with my sweet wife Cindy and our loved ones.  In the midst of this holiday I’m humbled as I reflect on the birth of American independence. The declaration of our Founding Fathers, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of