Atty. Gen.-elect Steve Bullock, who will officialy assume his post January 6, announced he will name Rick Ask acting administrator of the Gambling Control Division (GCD), likely through the duration of the 2009 Montana legislative session. More...

Mark Staples, Montana Tavern Association government affairs counsel, said that usually when the Legislature meets, "The only question is whether our adversaries will come after us with clubs or knives or sticks." More...

Video gambling tax collections for the first quater of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 (July 1-September 30, 2008) grew just one-third of one percent, the smallest gain seen in years and an inauspicious beginning to the accounting year. More...

"Grand Vision Gaming" is the name of Montana's newest gaming machine manufacturing company. More...

The Montana Tavern Times recently talked shop with each of the chief representatives of Montana's manufacturing firms. More...

The MTA has a large board of directors with 47 seats. When the board met November 12, and the votes were cast whether to honor its word, the MTA board had just two dissenters. That's about as close to unanimous as you can get. More...

The Montana Tavern Association Executive Board unequivocally reaffirmed it will not cross the line in the sand that it was a party to drawing back in 2005; the line of demarcation that separates, yet joins, the factions that fought a long battle over indoor smoking in Montana. More...

The MTA Legislative and Gambling Committee expressed exasperation at having the smoking issue come up again, with licensees possibly becoming the innocent foils of a nasty public backlash, fully backed by anti-smoking forces. More...