I don’t experience Medicaid as a headline. I experience it in caseload numbers, crisis calls, documentation hours, and the quiet weight of knowing someone is depending on me to navigate a system they don’t understand. I work in behavioral health and developmental disability services in Montana. Medicaid determines whether the person sitting across from me has coverage for home and community based services. It determines whether crisis stabilization is reimbursed. It determine

Across rural America — and increasingly here at home — counties are wrestling with wind-energy development. The debate is often framed as simple: local control versus industrialization. But beneath the politics sits a much more precise legal question: At what point does zoning stop being regulation and become government destruction of lawful property use? This matters because many wind projects are not speculative ideas. They are built on recorded private easements — binding

If you were in school in the early 2000s, you remember the look everyone was taught to watch for. After the Columbine High School massacre, the image hardened almost overnight: the bullied loner, dressed in black, obsessed with violent games and angry music, pushed too far until he snapped. Assemblies warned students about outcasts. Parents worried about subcultures. News panels debated video games and goth fashion like they were warning labels. It was a clean explanation. To

There is one final phrase that often surfaces after all the others have been exhausted. “Why didn’t they say something sooner?” It is usually framed as curiosity. Sometimes skepticism. Often disbelief. But according to trauma specialists, delayed disclosure is not an anomaly in child sexual abuse cases—it is the norm. Research in trauma psychology and child advocacy consistently shows that most survivors of childhood sexual abuse do not disclose, or fullly disclose, immediate