John McCaslin

2 weeks ago | flatheadbeacon.com | John McCaslin

The appalling price of prescription drugs is one of perhaps two things Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I will ever agree on. The other is Froot Loops. Not that I consume the multicolored breakfast cereal. It’s inexcusable that the Flathead version of Kellogg’s vivid breakfast treat uses synthetic dyes – Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 – whereas just across the border in Fernie the same cereal is served with natural food coloring.

2 weeks ago | rappnews.com | John McCaslin

As Debbie Keyser tells it, when 6-year-old Michael Cook visited her family’s Old Hollow farm for the first time in 1974 “he kept calling the front yard ‘the floor,’ because he’d never seen land or grass.”kA 5:ClQ=ECQm“%96J 925 2=H2JD 366? @? 4@?4C6E6 @C 3=24<E@A[” D2JD s2?:6= z6JD6C[ s633:6’D 72E96C[ C676CC:?8 E@ |:4926= 2?5 9:D d\J62C\@=5 D:DE6C[ |:496==6[ H9@ H6C6 8C@H:?8 FA :? E96 8C:EEJ 3@C@F89 @7 "F66?D[ }]*] !:4EFC6 pC49:6 qF?<6C’D ?6:893@C9@@5 — 2?5 6?G:C@?>6?E — :? E96 `hf_D D:E4@>[ “p== :?

1 month ago | flatheadbeacon.com | John McCaslin

Avocational archaeologist yours truly avows to be I had opined in a previous column about the wealth of prehistoric relics awaiting discovery in the backwoods of northwest Montana. Now wouldn’t you know comes word of a “one of a kind” potpourri of petroglyphs found near Whitefish, some so significant they surpass notable rock art finds of the western U.S. and Canada.

1 month ago | flatheadbeacon.com | John McCaslin

Search in https://flatheadbeacon.com/ Continental Divides Never before has a U.S. president continuously chipped away at his country’s democratic norms By John McCaslin April 23, 2025 Once upon less turbulent times Montana’s farmers and ranchers turned to their cows to interpret the political and economic platforms of U.S. presidents.

1 month ago | flatheadbeacon.com | John McCaslin

My neighbor in Bigfork phoned the Social Security Administration last week in hopes of obtaining a tax document for the estate of her late husband, who died in 2024. After being placed on hold for four hours, she finally hung up. Another indicator, or so some believe, that Donald Trump’s covert mission to privatize Social Security is afoot.