Eric Feaver, a Democratic Party activist and president of the Montana Federation of Public Employees, said he would have opposed the last-minute budget item if he’d had the chance.
The University of Montana is starting off the school year by breaking some records in the area of research funding.
"We set a record this year in a couple of the research categories," said UM Graduate School Dean Scott Whittenberg. "We received 87 million dollars worth of dollars that people on the outside wanted to spend on our research, and we also set a record by spending 78 mill
New monetary figures released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show hunters and anglers generated a little over $1 billion in 2014! Those are startling statistics compared to years past...