Montana is the state with the fastest growth of income inequality, according to a recent report based on U.S. Census Bureau data.

The report, from a website called Zippia that covers career issues, summarizes data from the American Community Survey from 2010-2016.

Montana’s income inequality increased 4.97 percent over those six years. The state ranks 30th in overall income inequality; New York tops that list.

Bravo, Ellie Hill, for your forcefully delivered commentary on Montana Evening Edition last Friday shouting out your support for Citizens’ Initiative No. 166, and bravo, Montana Supreme Court, for denying the attempt by a Republican state senator from Helena and a businessman from Billings, along with the shadowy organization, Montanans Opposed to I-166, to have the measure removed from the November ballot.

Thanks to Missoula Mayor John Engen for hosting “By the People: A Conversation about Corporate Influence on Our Democracy.” And to Anthony Johnstone for moderating and framing the discussion. And to the three panelists, professor Larry Howell, Attorney General Steve Bullock and attorney Jerry Loendorf, for their cogent, edifying commentary on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and the more proximate case challenging Montana’s century-old Corrupt Practices Act, currently under consideration by the Supreme Court...

Walter Wilde wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to say corporations aren’t people.

Why?

“I tell you, there’s so much to relate in terms of how far we have gone along the spectrum toward corporate influence, corporate, I say, domination of our political process that it’s hard to even know where to start,” Wilde said Wednesday.