Carly Graf

1 week ago | helenair.com | Carly Graf

Two bills related to pregnancy care sparked impassioned debates about women’s privacy rights this past week on the Senate floor and advanced Saturday from the chamber over concerns from Democrats and some Republicans the proposals would bring government into the doctor’s office. The first was from Rep.

1 week ago | helenair.com | Carly Graf

Depending on who you ask at the Montana Legislature, does two very different things. Some say it would enshrine free speech and let people exercise their core values; others say it would condone bullying and overburden exhausted school teachers. HB 400 would remove the ability of educators and other state employees to take disciplinary action against someone who refuses to use a person’s name or pronoun if it’s inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth.

2 weeks ago | missoulian.com | Victoria Eavis |Carly Graf

Three international students at Montana State University and another at the University of Montana had their visas revoked by the Department of Homeland Security, university officials said on Friday. "We have learned that three of our international students attending Montana State University have had their F-1 student visa status revoked, under the authority of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," MSU President Waded Cruzado wrote in a campus-wide email.

2 weeks ago | helenair.com | Carly Graf

Recent actions by the Montana Legislature could undermine future efforts to track the spread of contagious diseases, though some say it’s a risk worth taking in the name of privacy protections. Supported by the Department of Public Health and Human Services, House Bill 364 would have made school districts submit annual immunization reports to the state health agency so it could better track the spread of contagious diseases. It was tabled in a Senate committee earlier this month.

2 weeks ago | helenair.com | Carly Graf

Rather than give terminally ill patients another shot of morphine, why not offer them injections of mercy and grace instead? That was the question posed by Rep. Tracy Sharp, a Republican from Polson, on the House floor Wednesday as he spoke against a bill that would have made it illegal for Montana physicians to prescribe lethal drugs to dying patients. “What I find missing in the conversation, I think, can be summed up in one word — and that word is 'mercy,'” Sharp said.