Important Links

On voting...

Register to vote and mail your registration form into your local election office.
the Montana Secretary of State has a very helpful website on election-related matters.
Live in Yellowstone County? Look up where you vote.

Use Project Vote Smart to look-up who represents you
Find out who is contributing to your legislators' campaign coffers using opensecrets.org or followthemoney.org
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer
U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester
Congressman Dennis Rehberg
The Montana Legislature

The Center for Rural Strategies is an outreach project that hopes to deepen public debate on rural issues in the media and create a national environment in which positive change for rural communities can occur.
The Rural Blog, by the Institute for Rural Journalism at the Univeristy of Kentucky , is a digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from rural America. Updated daily.
The Institute for Ag and Trade Policy researches and proposes policies that would benefit farmers, consumers, rural communities and the environment, especially related to international trade.
The Western Organization of Resource Councils is a seven-state network of community and family farm organizations working on diverse issues such as renewable energy, country-of-origin labeling, and fair trade.