Tuition. Food. Housing. Textbooks. Transportation costs. Health care expenses. Child care. Personal and emergency expenses. When a student enrolls in a college or university, one important piece of the puzzle is figuring out how to cover these and other costs. At Montana State, the MSU Alumni Foundation the fundraising arm of the university - regularly awards scholarships to students to help pay

Voters line up for mix of voter registration and early voting at a satellite polling location established at the Medicine Bear Road complex in Poplar Oct. 22. (Photo by James Walling)

Whoever wins the race for Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction in the general election on Nov. 5 — Republican Susie Hedalen or Democrat Shannon O’Brien — they will inherit an office in disarray. A recent legislative audit of the Office of Public Instruction, which the superintendent leads, found more than $67 million in questionable spending of federal education funds, including