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Human Capital
Ep. 714
A 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by a man in Ohio was denied an abortion in that state after the US Supreme Court ruled last week that it overturned Roe v. Wade, demonstrating the tangible impacts that the high court’s decision is having on patients seeking access to the medical procedure.
A 28-year-old Helena man has been charged with multiple felony offenses including repeatedly raping a child younger than 13. David Allen Caves is charged with seven felony counts of sexual intercourse without consent, felony strangulation of partner or family member, felony assault with a weapon, felony sexual abuse of children, and his first misdemeanor partner or family member assault offense.
A 21-year-old man who coerced a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship in 2021 was sentenced for felony crimes in Gallatin County on Tuesday. Oliver Owens Temple, 21, pleaded guilty to felony sexual intercourse without consent. The plea was not part of an agreement. Gallatin County District Court Judge Andrew Breuner sentenced Temple on Tuesday to an eight-year commitment in the Montana Department of Corrections. Five years will be suspended.
The Bozeman March for Reproductive Rights partnered with the Bozeman United Way will hold protests every Friday evening at 7 pm at the Gallatin County Courthouse starting Friday, July 8. The group held a march on the Fourth of July with attendees carrying signs with phrases like “My body, my choice” and “I will not go quietly back to the 1950s.” The marches are growing in numbers following the US Supreme Courts’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a woman’s right to abortion.
Human Capital Ep. 711
An American woman vacationing in Malta who was denied a lifesaving abortion while miscarrying was able to get care in Spain, the same day Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States. Andrea Prudente, 38, and Jay Weeldreyer, 45, planned to leave their babymoon in Malta with a slew of pictures and cherished memories. Instead, they left on an emergency flight to Spain. Malta has one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world — something the couple didn’t know before booking their vacation.
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Election 2021
Candidate Forum
On Oct. 28, 2021, the Bozeman for CEDAW Task Force held a forum for the candidates for the mayor and for three city commission seats, two four-year terms and one two year terms. The forum was held via Zoom and moderated by Lei-Anna Bertelsen. The participants were the candidates for mayor: Brian LaMeres, Terry Cunningham, and Christopher Brizzolara; candidates for the two open four-year city commission seats: Emily Talago, I-Ho Pomeroy, and Christopher Coburn; and the candidates for the open two-year city commission seat: Evan Rainey, Joey Morrison, and Jennifer Madgic.
City Commission Candidate Forum
On Oct. 21, 2021, the League of Women Voters, Bozeman Professional Women, AAUW, Bozeman Public Library, and Belgrade Community Library sponsored a forum for the candidates for three open Bozeman City Commission seats. The forum was held at the Bozeman Public Library and was presented as a Zoom meeting. The forum featured the three candidates for two open four-year City Commission seats: Chris Coburn, I-Ho Pomeroy, and Emily Talago. It also included the three candidates for an open two-year City Commission seat: Jennifer Madgic, Joey Morrison, and Evan Rainey. The forum was moderated by Sally Maison.
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Policies and Politics
Bozeman Tenants United: Tenants’ Right to Legal Counsel
On May 4, 2025 at the Bozeman Events Center, Bozeman Tenants United hosted an informational panel about their campaign to institute a tenants’ right to legal counsel in Bozeman. It featured The Coordinator of The National Coalition for the Civil Right to Counsel, John Pollack, who had just flown in from Alabama; Bozeman Tenants United Organizer, Connie Howell; Montana Legal Services Association Senior Attorney for Housing, Amy Hall; HRDC’s Emergency & Supportive Housing Director, Brian Guyer; Charlie Cromwell, managing partner of Cromwell Law, as well as MSU adjunct professor and who has been providing legal services via the ASMSU legal services program; and Bozeman Deputy Mayor, Joey Morrison. The panel was moderated by Bozeman Tenants United Campaigns Director, Olive Sohn.
Ambassadors Baucus & McFaul: Great Power Competition in the 21st Century
On the evening of April 17, 2025, the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies was filled to overflowing with a crowd eager to hear Ambassadors Max Baucus and Michael McFaul discuss Great Power Competition in the 21st Century. The event was sponsored by the Max Baucus Institute as part of their Stockman Bank Speaker Series and The Montana World Affairs Council.
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Representing Montanans
Senator Jon Tester – Bozeman Town Hall Meeting
On April 16th, 2019 Senior Montana Democratic Senator, Jon Tester, held a town hall meeting in the ballroom of the historic Baxter Hotel in downtown Bozeman to a standing room only crowd. After a brief report of his recent work, he took questions from the crowd, ranging from Immigration, Health Care, The Violence Against Women Act, with particular attention to missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Veteran Issues, particularly the high rate of suicides, Wildlife and Wildlands Protection, Climate Change and the Green New Deal, as well as extricating US Troops from Wars in the Middle East.
Tester on Montana community banks and Dodd-Frank regulations
Tester’s bill, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, aims to increase access to capital by cutting red tape for community banks and credit unions, while protecting consumers against risky Wall Street bets. Tester took to the Senate floor today (watch video) to underscore the urgent need to provide community banks and credit unions with regulatory relief to prevent further bank consolidation in Montana.
According to Tester’s office, Montana has lost 23 chartered banks since 2008: “Many of these banks have consolidated and closed down as a result of the costs related to complying with regulations that were targeted to reign in the behavior of the nation’s largest financial institutions.”
An Associated Press fact check of Montana banking statistics was carried in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
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