Members of multiple legislative committees recently climbed aboard the “school bus” for an educational field trip to our neighbors to the North. Following two convenings of the “Constitutional Players”* in June and September, 2022, the presiding officers of this interim’s Education Interim Committee, Education Interim Budget Committee, and
One duty of the State-Tribal Relations Committee (STRC) is to “encourage state-tribal and local government-tribal cooperation.” This interim STRC is examining two issues that affect counties and tribes: the use of satellite/alternative election offices on Indian reservations and the conversion of taxable fee land into nontaxable trust land. On
If you recognized the title of this article as the first half of the FFA motto, good for you! It’s also a fitting descriptor for much of what the Education Interim Committee saw on its recent visits to Deer Lodge, Drummond, and Missoula.
The committee began its adventure at Montana
