Banning TikTok at $525 an hour

The MT Lowdown is a weekly digest that showcases a more personal side of Montana Free Press’ high-quality reporting while keeping you up to speed on the biggest news impacting Montanans. Want to see the MT Lowdown in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. We have an answer this week — well, a very partial one — to one of the most consistent reader questions we’ve seen in our inboxes here at MTFP: Just how much is the state spending to defend all those lawsuits? All those lawsuits, of course, are the many high-profile legal challenges that have generated headlines from us and oth