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Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC), the region's top free-market think tank, announced today that Governor Greg Gianforte will be honored with its Elevation Award at the upcoming Montana Liberty Dinner in Billings November 6th.

After months of rigorous coursework, mentorship, and public voting, Avery Nichols has been selected as the first-place scholar, earning the $5,000 Tim Hennessey & Holly Harrison Scholarship.

The campaign will include the launch of a website to answer questions, a robust series of public town hall meetings across the state, a multi-phase media effort, and legal support to protect the law from special interest challenges.

Mountain States Policy Center is proud to announce the four finalists for the 2025 Sawtooth Leadership Academy scholarships.

Perino, one of the most respected voices in American media and politics, served as Press Secretary for President George W. Bush, becoming only the second woman ever to hold the position.

Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC) is proud to announce the official launch of the Bill & Milly Kay Baldwin Center for Education, a new research and advocacy hub focused on expanding educational opportunity and defending student-centered policy reforms throughout the Mountain West.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

School district budgets are a maze of numbers and jargon that most citizens cannot understand. Even some lawmakers have difficulty concluding if a school district is spending money properly.

The award is the highest honor of MSPC, given to the individual(s) who advance free market solutions and ideas.

The yearly event is a fundraiser for MSPC, and the amount of funds raised for the organization hit a record Friday night.

Judge Jeanine Pirro, co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel will keynote the event. The organization will also announce the recipient of it

Legislators adjourned Friday afternoon, 89 days after they kicked off the session on a foggy, cold January morning in Boise. Nearly 800 bill

The policy change - a Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC) recommendation based on years of research - was sponsored by Senators Lori Den Ha

H93 provides a $5,000 tax credit to qualifying families for educational expenses including private school tuition. Special needs students co

"This bill, which has my complete and total support, must pass," the president wrote.

Consistent with the organization's bylaws, Scott Brown of Rexburg and Tim Hennessey of Boise were elected unanimously by MSPC's board in Dec

The Idaho Poll is released every other December ahead of the legislative session to provide critical information regarding the state's top p

Mountain States Policy Center - the region's leading free market think tank - announced today that former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will s

This year, six students were selected to participate in six courses, both in-person and virtually. In the end, four completed a final resear

More than 500 were in attendance Friday night in Boise for Mountain States Policy Center's 2024 Fall Dinner, where Idaho Reports was...