The Monitor serves the people of Jefferson County, Montana, reflecting their reality, informing their ambitions, and helping them to navigate their shared future. It endeavors to provide authoritative, fact-based reporting that surfaces and explains issues at the heart of our community — exploring both urgent challenges and the responses to those challenges. It will hold power to account, by demanding transparency, investigating wrongdoing, and revealing how what’s broken could be fixed. The Monitor fairly represents the region’s diverse range of perspective, not beholden to one path or another or to any politicians, political parties, or special interests.