Cooking in the West

As the sun sets on the primary elections in Montana this week, and the general election looms ahead, the candidates have had a Covid-19 impacted campaign. They couldn't hold meet and greets, shake hands and hand out brochures, or kiss babies. Having run for public office, I feel their pain. It is not easy to run for office in a normal year, and living in a small community makes it even harder!

I remember well the first time I ran for my County Superintendent of Schools position back in 2006. The day I first announced my candidacy in the teacher's lounge of Big Timber Grade School, my timing wa...