Joe Biden ran for President in 1988, and lost. Joe Biden ran for President in 2008, and lost. Joe Biden does not need to be in the field in 2020. The 2020 field is full of brilliant, diverse, talented people. Let it go, Joe. This should not be...
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As much a problem as he is, and as much as I oppose him, I am not politically fixated on Donald Trump. I seldom write about him. But I am becoming increasingly worried about the impact of his totally erratic operating style. Just after President...
Most Montanans caught the news that Congress passed the most significant public lands package in years: Permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Yellowstone Protection Act. Senator Steve Daines has long seen these...
I personally am not one who believes that we need to devote much ink to President Trump’s off-color statements. Most of them can be ignored as distraction or maybe he hasn’t had his coffee when he starts tweeting, but when he speaks ill...
I haven’t read the famous funeral oration delivered by Pericles to the people of Athens since I was an impressionable teenager at Laurel High School who thought almost everything my World History teacher taught was worth learning, but I...
Senator Tester fought hard, negotiated in good faith and still Trump is a snake. The bipartisan deal that Tester helped broker ended up ceding 1.37 billion of our tax dollars to fund some bogus barriers or whatever B.S name they are calling this...
This post is for the Montana residents who still support President Trump and his agenda. This post is for our Representatives at the state level who continue to bring that administration’s ideas into the chambers in Helena. This post is for...
Any Montanans who tuned their radios to Yellowstone Public Radio (YPR) and caught Morning Edition were treated to a preview of President Trump’s talking points/highlights during this evening’s scheduled State of the Union (SotU) address...
After the longest federal government shutdown in American history, agencies will re-open this week after the president succumbed to political pressure and took a deal initially offered by the Democrats. The shutdown cost the nation $6 billion, which...
Social media was flooded on Friday night/Saturday morning with posts from Southeastern Montana Federal employees who get to go back to work on Monday. With approximately 78% of Federal workers living paycheck to paycheck, even those who...
I can’t vote for Kirsten Gillibrand because she once advocated the adoption of an English-only policy. I can’t vote for Elizabeth Warren because she made the horrifically misguided decision to have a DNA test to “prove” her American Indian heritage...
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Don Pogreba
Don Pogreba is an eighteen-year teacher of English, former debate coach, and loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. He spends far too many hours of his life working at school and on his small business, Big Sky Debate.
His work has appeared in Politico and Rewire.
In the past few years, travel has become a priority, whether it's a road trip to some little town in Montana or a museum of culture in Ísafjörður, Iceland.
He doesn't link to media outlets that don't follow basic journalistic attribution rules.
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