Montanans face turmoil next election

Montana’s congressional delegation may be going through major changes this year after almost two decades of stability under the combined leadership of Democratic Senators Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue

My ideas on “something different” therefore are offered only because it seems to me that our society is already much too authoritarian, and because certain trends, supported by a blind and misapplied technology, are leading toward an ever more authoritarian, centralized, potentially totalitarian state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue

Political attacks against Arizona Congressman Morris Udall are one example of recent political backlash against environmentalism, and may be part of a larger shift toward conservatism. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue

Utah environmentalists consider themselves practically without representation in Congress, as Senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch and congressmen Gunn McKay and Dan Marriott consistently thwart their efforts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue

Jay McGrew, an independent energy conservation consultant, says “the insulation business is a little bit like the insurance business. The salesmen always want to sell you more than you need.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.8/download-entire-issue

Some wilderness advocates argue that taxpayers benefit from more wilderness because wilderness is less expensive to manage than land managed for timber harvest and other uses. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.7/download-entire-issue

Idaho voters continue to elect both Sen. Frank Church, who has gained a national reputation as an environmental leader, as well as Rep. Steve Symms, who is known for wanting to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.7/download-entire-issue

Colorado’s congressional delegation has the best environmental voting record of any state in the Northern Rockies. Only on the issue of water has Colorado recently voted as a typical inland Western delegation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue

Like many presidents before him, President Jimmy Carter is interested in reorganizing the agencies that manage public land; the shuffle could involve moving the U.S. Forest Service to the Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue

As with any other Western religion, the worship of uranium is a mixture of love and fear of the deity worshiped. And fear of radioactive uranium may be well justified. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.5/download-entire-issue

Four almost four years, the Environmental Protection Agency has resisted banning the herbicide 2,4,5-T — the main ingredient of Agent Orange, used to defoliate forests during the Vietnam War — because of lack of hard evidence of its effects; now research is providing the evidence. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.4/download-entire-issue

All three of North Dakota’s congressmen were first elected before the environment was a major political issue, and because the state has a strong tradition of returning incumbents to office, all three continue to be re-elected despite their generally poor environmental records. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.4/download-entire-issue