Editor’s Note: The Chronicle has interviewed the three candidates for Bozeman mayor and will publish stories about their backgrounds and policy stances over three days this week. Profiles of the six City Commission candidates will follow. Profiles on John Meyer and Brendan O'Connor published earlier this week.

After eight years on the school board, Commissioner Douglas Fischer hadn’t had enough public service.

Fischer, 55, applied to fill the Commission seat left open in late 2023 by I-Ho Pomeroy, who resigned after a cancer diagnosis. After two years on the commission, Fischer is now running for mayor.

Fischer, who has spent his career in journalism, most recently running an environmental health news website, jokes that going from the school board to the Commission was like going from

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