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  • “A Medical Ghetto Called Medicaid”

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    by JC Well, now we know what the republicans really think about health care and the plight of the poor. Senator Lamar Alexander basically acknowledged the third world status of the less fortunate Americans among us. The plan, said the Senator from Tennessee, is “arrogant in its dumping of 15 million low-income [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:45pm EST
    by JC

  • Run, run as fast as you can

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    by Pete Talbot That’s my advice to the fiancee of Jordon Bryant Iddings, the alleged jerk in Thursday night’s downtown rampage. Actually, it started at Hooters, that classy joint out on Reserve St. Then proceeded downtown to the Bodega and Reds. Iddings’ abhorrent behavior, and that of his five buddies, was blamed [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:40pm EST
    by petetalbot

  • On Terrorism

    by jhwygirl The Hill has an article up – Sen. Levin: Fort Hood shooting rampage was likely a terrorist attack. “Likely”? Should that even be in question? n. A person or an organized group which unlawfully uses or threatens to use force or violence against people or property with the intention of [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:35pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • State Laying Off 4 Economic Advisors

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    by jhwygirl A fifth vacant rural development officer position in the state’s Department of Commerce is already vacant and won’t be filled. Ravalli Republic’s John Cramer has the story. Cutting 5 jobs geared towards economic development that hold statewide importance to communities all over the state…5 jobs that have created or saved [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:32pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Land Board Delays Otter Creek Coal Leases Decision

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    by jhwygirl This is in follow-up to a previous post. Somewhat surprisingly if only for who made the motion, the State Land Board voted to delay decision on the Arch Coal Inc. leases of the state’s Otter Creek coal holdings for 30 days to allow for additional time for public comment regarding [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:56am EST
    by jhwygirl

  • RunToBozeman: Go UM’s Sigma Phi Epsilon!

    by jhwygirl Well poodles if this doesn’t deserve a shout out and a couple of Andrew Jackson’s, folks. Coming to 4&20 via the every-awesome-in-local-coverage KPAX, UM fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon has decided it’s annual fundraiser for the Watson’s Children Shelter will be a run to Bozeman for the annual Griz-Cat’s game. [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:24pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Bitterroot Bus Line?

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    by jhwygirl Apparently it’s being contemplated. Mountain Line has a survey out – available on the web – seeking to determine the viability of a Missoula to Lolo line that would run weekdays, once or twice in the morning and the same in return in late afternoon. From the info request for [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:54pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Action Item: Otter Creek Coal at State Land Board Monday, 9 a.m.

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    by jhwygirl This comes to me via a reader from Bozeman. I’ve edited it slightly for posting. The Billings Gazette reports on the Otter Creek coal tracts and the decision to be made Monday by the State Land Board. Letters sent via email are needed NOW to stop the giveaway of state [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:32pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Secession Talk, Part II

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    by jhwygirl The Rep. Gordon Hendrick’s promotion of secession talk for parts of Missoula County continues to bug me. We’ve got a state representative here who represents an area that is more Missoula County than it is Mineral County (about 60%), promoting – or looking into – the secession of a region [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:56pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Various & Sundry for the Weekend

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    by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. Wow. Didn’t know compliance with state laws was voluntary. Pretty convenient, huh? Bitterroot foreclosures are skyrocketing. I follow a number of foreign tweeters, including some chinese folk who continue to try and push stories out about the melamine-in-baby-food problem. One that I follow was arrested [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:58am EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Republicans and 64 Dems Protect Access to Abortion for the Wealthy

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl Whatever happen to the Republican/Lieberman ideal of not wanting government to come between the patient and the doctor? Ugh. By now you’ve heard of the passage of the House’s Affordable Health Care for America Act. Before that vote could hit the floor, conservative Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak put forth an [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:23pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • And now for Something Completely Different…

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    by JC This open thread is dedicated to the incredible perseverance and diligence shown by goof, lizard, Mark T. and PogoPossum last week on my thread the rise of the conservative party. Have at it boys! And if anybody else has something they’d like to gab about, this thread is for [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:06pm EST
    by JC

  • More Secession Talk in Missoula County

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    by jhwygirl Most of you, by now, have probably heard a little about the Swan Valley & Condon secessionists? The group of Missoulians up on the furthest northern reaches of the county that would like to secede to Lake County? I’ve not heard anything for some time, and while I was [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:53am EST
    by jhwygirl

  • What’s Up With the Evil Conservative Media Takeover?

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    by jhwygirl Sometimes I think I don’t pimp this blog often enough. This will be a bit of a rant. Sad to see Missoula’s progressive talk radio AM930 go. So suddenly – and I’ve missed anything if it’s been mentioned elsewhere. Now – I don’t know when it happened, but Tuesday I [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:48pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Oil Porn from Rep. Denny Rehberg

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    by jhwygirl In the form of $549,349 in campaign contributions from big oil. From Montana Conservation Voters. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:08pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Bucking the CW, Dems Should Tack to Port

    Number of comments: 10
    “Give us a reason to vote for you, or we sit home” by JC Conventional wisdom already is telling us that the lesson democrats should take home (and republicans and the MSM is amplifying) is that when the base doesn’t turn out, as it didn’t in the NJ and Virginia gubernatorial races, [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:20pm EST
    by JC

  • City council elections: a referendum on Obama

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    by Pete Talbot Congratulations to Roy Houseman, who defeated incumbent John Hendrickson by 162 votes in the Ward 2 race. Condolences to Mike O’Herron, who almost took out incumbent Dick Haines in Ward 5: 1,398 – 1,328. And with all the other Missoula Democratic Party-endorsed incumbents winning their seats, it looks like [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:18pm EST
    by petetalbot

  • Rising from GOP Ashes… the Conservative Party?

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    by JC It’s election day, and the thoughts on my mind, one year after Obama and democrats swept to victory and republicans went down in defeat, are thus: Will the conservative uprising in elections back east amount to anything more than a squabble in the GOP, and progressive democrats will succeed in [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:40pm EST
    by JC

  • Why Denny doesn’t need a public option

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    by Pete Talbot High Country News has a chart in its October 26 issue highlighting the wealthiest Western Congressfolk. There’s only one Montanan on the list of the 50 richest: Rep. Denny Rehberg. Out of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives, Rehberg ranks 27th. And as the News reports, these are lowball figures [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:02pm EDT
    by petetalbot

  • President Obama signs Ryan White reauthorization, lifts HIV travel ban

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    by Jamee Greer This is cross-posted on Left in the West. In what seems like history on fast-forward in the movement for LGBTI equality, today marked another milestone—equally important to the fight against the HIV virus—and in its support of people living with HIV/AIDS. Today President Obama announced the signing of the [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
    by Jamee Greer

  • Ward 2 Candidate Hendrickson Steals Opponent’s Endorsement; Dick Haines Weaves His Own Web of Deceit

    Number of comments: 3
    by jhwygirl I expect negative stuff from this crew during an election, but John Hendrickson has sunk to new lows with a radio spot done in such a way that most listeners would be left to believe Mayor John Engen has endorsed the guy. The Missoula Independent’s Skylar Browning was first [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:08pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Max blows it again

    Number of comments: 7
    by Pete Talbot Buried in an AP story on climate change was Sen. Max Baucus saying he had “serious reservations” with a modest effort to cut carbon emissions over the next decade. What a tool. The bill being considered by a Senate environmental panel calls for a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
    by petetalbot

  • Montana Issues Hemp Crop License

    Number of comments: 5
    by jhwygirl Montana Agriculture Department has issued the state’s first industrial hemp production license – the first since approving it into law in 2001. Federal Law requires a special permit to grow hemp. Laura Murphy, who works for a Bozeman medical marijuana business, plans to lease some land near Ennis and grow [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Ward 5 Candidate Mike O’Herron Scores Major Endorsement

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl Ward 5 candidate Mike O’Herron scored a major endorsement with former Republican county commissioner Barbara Evans and community activist and past president of the Upper Linda Vista Homeowners Association Charlie Brown telling voters to vote O’Herron: As Miller Creek residents, we need a representative from Ward 5 who has common [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 3:04am EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • What Does a Trigger Option Do?

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    by jhwygirl A trigger option hands the insurance industry 12% of your total income. 12% of this nation’s income. Under the trigger option, a public option will kick in some time in the future should the insurance companies fail to meet some certain thresholds like failing to provide a basic health insurance [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 11:23am EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Hauck STILL Stonewalls Kaimin Reporters; Dennison’s Excuse? 2-Week Trip to Europe

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    by jhwygirl The Missoulian continues its coverage of Griz Coach Bobby Hauck’s asshole-ish behavior, with a report on UM’s crisis management of the situation, along with a synopsis of the nationwide attention being thrust upon the Griz football program – virtually all of it critical. Hauck continues berating Kaimin reporters?! You have [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Public Option Numbers Rising – CNN Poll Says 61% Favor Public Option

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    by jhwygirl Following up on Monday’s news that ABC/Time polling showed 57% support a public option in health insurance reform changes being hammered out in congress, today brings us news that affirms that trend. CNN polling tells us 61% favor a public option for inclusion in any health insurance reform bill. That [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:10pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • NW Montana Takes Another Job Loss Hit – Blame It on the Free Market

    Number of comments: 3
    by jhwygirl NW Montana – Columbia Falls, to be specific – is taking another significant living-wage job loss hit, this time in the form of the closure of the Columbia Falls Aluminum (CFA) plant. The Missoulian’s Michael Jamison has a meaty story up on the closure and how the plant got [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Vote

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl Have you filled out your ballot yet? Get ‘er done. Why wait until tomorrow? Or next week. The Missoula Independent has its endorsements out today – and (as usual) I am in full agreement. Dave Strohmaier for Ward 1 Roy Houseman for Ward 2 Bob Jaffe for Ward 3 Jon Wilkins for Ward 4 Mike [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • 57% Support Public Option; 51% Even Without GOP Support

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    by jhwygirl An ABC News-Washington Post poll released today shows that 57% of Americans support a public option. Limit it to only those that can’t afford market insurance? Support soars to 76%. And what if the GOP refuses to participate? Still a majority of Americans want reform. What should those concerned about electing and [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:30pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Coach Bobby Hauck Continues His Asshole Behavior

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl With seemingly little backlash from the tailgating Griz fans. Lauded at homecoming..and still packing them in. Hauck doesn’t have to care. Clearly, Hauck can do whatever he wants, with little backlash from the University administration, from the fans, or from the Board of Regents. At least some responsible journalists [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • NYTimes Comes Out Strong for Public Option Health Insurance Reform

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    by jhwygirl Really should be giving credit to supermissoulian Ellie Hill who tweeted on a NYT article, “The Public Plan, Continued“. It’s a good article that lays out – very plainly – what a public option means; some of the various options of public option health insurance; and a nice overview [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 8:45pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Missoula League of Women Voters Sponsers Healthcare Forum Luncheon

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    by jhwygirl The Missoula League of Women Voters is sponsoring, for this months luncheon presentation, a health care forum, with the topic of discussion being “Long-term Care in Missoula”. The events are held in room 302 in the MCAT building at the corner of Spruce and N. Higgins. The forum starts Monday [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 5:08pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Vote. And a Vote for Bob Jaffe Video

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    by jhwygirl First the Ward 3’s Vote for Bob Jaffe video, which comes to 4&20, not by Bob Jaffee, but via Skylar Browning’s Indy Blog post: Browning’s brief remarks are funny, and I agree. I also think that Badenoch was funny, saying “I think Bob Jaffe represents a lot of things I [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Missoulian serendipity

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    by Pete Talbot Every so often, our daily newspaper gives us competing versions of an important story. Today was such a day. There’s this guest column and this news interview. Both are on the subject of health care. The guest column was penned by Greg Roberts, a former health care executive.  The [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by petetalbot

  • Why do Republicans Hate America so?

    Number of comments: 10
    Inquiring minds want to know… by JC Update: The Button Valley Bugle beat me to ‘tubes on this theme, with a post from friday From Venom is not a strategy: “Republicans celebrate every time America fails and cheer and applaud for more failures in the future. Republicans have moved well beyond political opposition [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
    by JC

  • Various & Sundry for the Weekend

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    by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread 7 Montana businesses were amongst 140 that went to Washington to lobby Senators Baucus and Tester to pass “strong” climate and energy policies that would cut carbon pollution and create over 1.7 million jobs. The two mentioned in that link from Bozeman. Our Sen. Jon Tester [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 10:35am EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Tester Makes it 51. They Have the Votes. Pass the Public Option

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    by jhwygirl Just read it, here. [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • If You See This Guy This Weekend – Tell Him That You Support a Public Option

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    by jhwygirl …because “he’s funny as hell and the bomb.com,” according to his Wikipedia page. Getting to the point…Jim Messina, Deputy Chief of Staff for President Obama is in town to enjoy this weekends festivities, I’m sure. Jim Messina who used to live here in Missoula. Jim Messina who graduated University of [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Schweitzer Speaks Strong on Single-Payer, Public Option

    Number of comments: 8
    by jhwygirl I’ve found this, from the Huffington Post….Last Friday, Schweitzer is quoted with a pretty darn clear statement in support of a single-payer system of health care: “I ask [Canadian officials] a lot about their system,” he said. “And they ask a lot about our system. And I read a lot [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:38am EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Olbermann Throws $50,000 Towards Sponsoring FreeClinics Here in Butte Montana

    Number of comments: 4
    by jhwygirl I was watching Keith My Hero Olbermann tonight – as was 4&20’s Chuck – when Olbermann offered up $50,000 towards helping sponsor the National Association of Free Clinics here in Butte Montana. The idea is to sponsor Free Clinics in each of the states where their senators (in our [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Public Option Would Save $110 Billion

    by jhwygirl Say what?!? That’s what I thought when I heard Representative Chris Murphy (D-Conn) on some radio talk show this morning say that the public option would save $110 billion. Frankly, I didn’t believe it when I heard it, mostly because I was hearing it the first time. What did I find? [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:58pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • State Rep. Mike Jopek Reminds Taxpayers How They Got the Bill The Got

    Number of comments: 6
    by jhwygirl Kalispell’s Mike Jopek reminds taxpayers – most who are getting an average increase of 15%, but many out here on the western side of the state are getting hit much higher – who to thank when that bill comes in the mail. All but one Senate Republican. 90% of House Republicans. 25% [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:55am EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • CBO: Baucus Faux Universal Health Care Bill to Leave 25 Million Uninsured

    Number of comments: 5
    “Sen. Max Baucus… is, not surprisingly, one of the biggest beneficiaries of this one-two punch from the lobbyists and their clients” by JC Nothing like spending $829 billion dollars and still having 25 million people, all legal citizens under the age of 65, left out of the health care insurance system under [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 1:46am EDT
    by JC

  • Tester, Schweitzer Speak Out on the States’ Unfunded 11% Mandate

    Number of comments: 4
    by jhwygirl Roll Call (hate that firewall…) reports that Sen. Tester is “withholding a direct appeal to Baucus to strike the proposal pending the outcome of the forthcoming merger of Baucus’ Finance bill and legislation previously approved by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. But Tester is prepared to press [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:34pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • State Senator Greg Barkus Drunk – Charged With 3 Felonies

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl So no one’s gotten to this yet? Whee! But seriously…no surprises there, right? Senator Greg Barkus (of Kalispell) had 3 felony charges filed against him, in what was a day of minute by minute (practically) updates from a bunch of Montana news tweeters as the charges played out. NewWest has Dan [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • Missoula MD to meet with Obama

    Number of comments: 6
    by Pete Talbot Missoula physician Meg Sarnecki is one of 50 doctors from around the country who are meeting with the President to discuss health care reform. (You won’t find this news in our local print media. Don’t ask me why. KPAX ran a short piece. I found out about it in [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
    by petetalbot

  • Montana Rep Race gets Interesting with Two New Entrants!

    Number of comments: 8
    Could it be Gopher vs. Otjen for Congress? by JC This last week has seen two newcomers to Montana politics throw their hats into the ring to unseat republican congressman Denny Rehberg. First up, Melinda Gopher–daughter of Robert Gopher, a long time native activist, cultural leader, and petitioner of the 1972 Montana Constitutional [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
    by JC

  • Judge Sherlock to Missoula’s Lawsuiters: Ahhh…Not So Much

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl Good Fantastic news this afternoon for pro zoning reform in the City of Missoula. Judge Sherlock has released his 9 page opinion which denies Lawsuiters Dick Haines & Renee Mitchell (Councilpersons for Ward 5) and Ward 4’s Lyn Hellegaard their Writ of Mandate, seeking the city to comply with [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
    by jhwygirl

  • CoC, MOR and MBIA Candidate Forum Review

    Number of comments: 6
    by jhwygirl Don’t miss Bunk the West’s review of Tuesday’s candidate forum held by the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce, the Missoula Organization of Realtors and the Missoula Building Industry Association at the Broadway Inn. Ward 1 challenger Ryan Morton takes Bunk to task for restating that which the Missoulian reported. I [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
    by jhwygirl
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