U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a grant to Disabled Recreation Environmental Access Movement Adaptive Recreation Inc., an organization in Whitefish that helps enhance quality of life for individuals with disabilities by providing year-round outdoor adaptive recreation opportunities.

We’ve written here about the history of the Right to Know, why it matters, and what policies affect your access to information. In this column, we’re going back to the basics so that Montanans, including you, are better equipped to exercise the Right to Know. When we talk about the Right to Know, we talk about it as exercised through information requests, which are also referred to as Right

Yellow cornmeal grits with roasted vegetables. Maple sugar popcorn with chili smoked salt. Curried butternut squash and tepary bean soup. Those are just a few of the recipes featuring Native crops that a team of students and faculty at Montana State University have developed to help support Native American producers and improve food security on reservations. Their project, “Recipes for Resilience