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By DARRELL EHRLICK | Editor-in-Chief

“A lot of groups on campus felt pretty disenfranchised by that structure,” – Conrad Rauscher, Flathead Valley Community College Union Vice President, on the selection process for a new president.

Flathead Valley Community College faculty irked by presidential appointment

Flathead Valley Community College faculty irked by presidential appointment

by Keila Szpaller

The board of trustees at Flathead Valley Community College has chosen its first new president in more than a quarter century, but faculty allege the selection process lacked transparency and disenfranchised the campus. The board of trustees advanced this week the presidential appointment of Deborah Kish Stephan, who leads the Brandon Campus of Hillsborough College […]
More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future

More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future

by Kevin Hardy

Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more than 330,000 Americans lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, between May and June, the latest […]
Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping.

Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping.

by Jonathan Shorman

When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city where roughly 14% of residents are foreign-born, quickly sued. “Every day we find new things to be astonished about but I think that we just […]
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