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Through the 2024 election, Montana voters will select candidates to fill 14 Montana-specific federal and state offices — plus 100 House seats and 25 open Senate seats in the state Legislature.
That can be a baffling process to track even for voters who diligently follow political news. This digital guide, a project of the nonpartisan Montana Free Press newsroom, is an effort to ensure basic information is available so voters have the opportunity to cast informed votes.The 2024 primary election, where voters picked political party nominees to advance to the General Election, was held Tuesday, June 4. The 2024 general election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5.
The Future of Coal Country: Landscape On the Brink of Change
Montana’s energy economy pits traditional industry against renewable opportunities with billions of tax dollars at stake.
The rise of renewable energy sources poses life-changing questions for Montana’s coal country. The town of Colstrip has a century’s dependence on coal production. The Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations also share the region’s Powder River Basin coal deposits. But those three communities face different directions as the energy economy reacts to billions of dollars in new federal investments for wind and solar generating projects, mine and pollution cleanup, job training and economic development. Around the world, coal ranks worst among energy sources for producing greenhouse gases that lead to disrupted rain and snow patterns, longer wildfire seasons and other impacts from global warming. Part I of this four-part series, today, takes readers across the landscape shared by the Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Colstrip residents who live above the United States’ largest coal reserve, and lays out the challenges and uncertainties entangled in envisioning a new energy economy.
What Did the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Do for Northwest Montana?
President Joe Biden signed the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law in 2021, authorizing $1.2 trillion in spending for transportation and infrastructure. Here’s where (some of) that money went in and around the Flathead Valley.
With support from Democrats and Republicans, President Joe Biden’s administration in 2021 secured the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a historic $1.2 trillion dollar spending package that promised to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure. Thus far, the White House says, $480 billion in funding for more than 60,000 projects has been announced. Grants have been allocated to states, tribal governments, territories and local municipalities to undertake needed improvements, from highway expansions to wildfire mitigation. In Montana, the Biden administration says its landmark legislation has delivered $1.7 billion in private sector investment and over 52,000 new jobs. Montana’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester voted in favor of the bill. Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Rosendale voted against it.
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