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  • Batman = Bush?

    There’s quite a bit of discussion out there in film circles and the blogosphere about the  meaning of the new Batman movie.  Clearly, the movie’s  sinister Joker,  played  so convincingly by  Health Ledger in his  last role,  is a terrorist.  And just as clearly, it’s easy to  draw the conclusion [...]

    Posted: July 23, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • With Friends Like These …

    Number of comments: 9

    You know, it’s tough enough in the media business these days without our fellow newsies bringing on even more disdain. But that’s what our brethren at Fox News have done by modifying photographs of two New York Times employees for an on-air show. Here’s a description of what happened, according [...]

    Posted: July 03, 2008, 3:19pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Gas for Less!

    Number of comments: 10

    Gas isn’t cheap anywhere, but where are the best deals in town? For that matter, what gas stations are the most expensive? We’d like to hear from you all as you’re out their shopping for the best fuel deal. If we get some good responses, we’ll write a story. Also, [...]

    Posted: June 11, 2008, 11:10am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Vice President Clinton?

    Number of comments: 3

    Barack Obama hadn’t even sealed the Democratic nomination before folks started clamoring for an Obama-Clinton ticket. Now, Clinton’s campaign staff is actively pushing the possibility, and Hillary herself has said she’s open to the idea. While it’s possible such a ticket would heal some of the wounds the long campaign [...]

    Posted: June 04, 2008, 4:20pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Slurpy Returns!

    Number of comments: 1

    Thanks goodness, the bunny-napping has been solved. Turns out it wasn’t a malicious crime as much as confusion over the black rabbit’s potential safety. In any case, here’s Slurpy’s owner, Toni Matlock, describing the resolution:

    “Through a ‘found rabbit’ posting on Craigslist, I got in touch with the woman who took [...]

    Posted: June 04, 2008, 10:47am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Michigan? Not!

    Number of comments: 1

    We Montanans are pretty used to being beside the point when it comes to national politics, but we still have our identity. But even that was taken from us for a while last night as Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination and made the Montana vote, well, sort of beside [...]

    Posted: June 04, 2008, 9:52am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Free Slurpy!

    Number of comments: 2

     

    OK, this is a first for the blog. A bunny-napping.This bit of news comes from Toni Matlock, who is a neighbor of reporter Betsy Cohen. Toni called Betsy this morning with news about Slurpy the Rabbit, who apparently inhabits their West Central Avenue neighborhood. Seems that two young ladies grabbed [...]

    Posted: June 03, 2008, 1:28pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Sorry Sorry Sorry

    OK, so we’re sorry. I’ve been away on vacation, as were a handful of other Missoulian staffers. That left Gwen Florio pretty much alone in the newsroom, and she didn’t get around to doing much with the blog. But now I’m back, and we’ll try to get this thing back [...]

    Posted: June 02, 2008, 4:47pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Engen and Obama

    Number of comments: 6

    Here’s a release from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama:

    “The Obama campaign announced today that it will begin airing a new radio ad featuring Missoula Mayor John Engen. In the 60-second spot, titled “Job,” Mayor Engen praises Senator Obama’s strong commitment to Montana’s working families, demonstrated by his refusal [...]

    Posted: May 16, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Bloggers Go National!

    Number of comments: 1

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    Here’s a nice little hit that ran at 4and20blackbirds,wordpress.com, which is a routinely excellent blog with lots of good Missoula stuff. And congrats to Matt and Jay.


    Seminal Montana bloggers Matt Singer and Jay Stevens over [...]

    Posted: May 15, 2008, 12:55pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Clinton Redux Redux

    Number of comments: 1

    Ex-Prez Bill Clinton was back in Montana Tuesday night, speaking in Kalispell. He’s in Missoula Wednesday morning touting his wife’s presidential campaign. That’s all well and good. But the chances of Hillary Clinton actually winning the Democratic primary have declined precipitously, with most strategists saying it’s simply a matter of [...]

    Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:50pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Survival of the Prettiest

    Number of comments: 4

    Well, Montana’s Amanda Kimmel finished second on “Survivor: Micronesia” Monday night. She lost by one vote to another young woman named Parvati, which sounds sort of like cheese but with a better swimsuit. In any case, what we wonder about these sort of “reality” shows, is why folks watch them. [...]

    Posted: May 12, 2008, 4:49pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • The Bouncing Bubble

    Seems to be hard to find a piece of ground for the former tennis bubble from the Missoula Athletic Club. Missoula County Public Schools first planned to lease space to the Missoula Strikers soccer club to put the bubble on property behind Sentinel High School. But enough folks complained about [...]

    Posted: May 09, 2008, 4:48pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Vice President Schweitzer?

    Number of comments: 1

    Well, well well! Gov. Brian Schweitzer is on a list of 15 potential Democratic vice presidential candidates proposed by the influential Web site Salon on. The guv is running in pretty fancy company, as some of the other folks Salon suggests for Barack Obama’s running mate include his current opponent, [...]

    Posted: May 08, 2008, 9:36am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Guns in the Parks Redux

    Number of comments: 10

    Here’s a breaking story from the AP about proposed changes to the rules regulating guns in national parks. We’ll have our own story, perhaps later today, and certainly by early Thursday. Montana’s congressional delegation has been pushing to make guns legal in the parks, but we’d like to hear your [...]

    Posted: April 30, 2008, 4:36pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: Bloody Good Fun?

    Number of comments: 7

    We had ourselves a dandy little argument break out in the office Wednesday morning. Jamie Kelly was extolling the virtues of the new version of the hyper-violent Grand Theft Auto, noting that he’d played the game for five hours. That struck Rob Chaney as a colossal waste of time, not [...]

    Posted: April 30, 2008, 4:15pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Plum Creek Revisited

    The often controversial undersecretary of agriculture, Mark Rey, was in Missoula Monday to talk with folks about Plum Creek’s plans to turn some of their timberlands into subdivisions. Both Rey and Plum Creek are topics that everybody seems to have an opinion on, so read Michael Jamison’s story in Tuesday’s [...]

    Posted: April 28, 2008, 5:04pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Those Pesky Expenses

    Number of comments: 3

    The Washington Post got after Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg in a column in Thursday’s paper. You can read the column here: [www.washingtonpost.com]

    The part about Rehberg starts at the bottom of the second page, but the first page is interesting, as well, totaling up the legal fees that Idaho Sen. [...]

    Posted: April 25, 2008, 4:25pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Griz Nation In Iraq

    Number of comments: 1

    This came to us over the email transom on Wednesday from a gentleman named Paul King:

    Attachedis a photo that a good friend sent to me from Iraq. I thought that the Missoulian might want to use it in its print and/or online edition. Although [...]

    Posted: April 23, 2008, 5:16pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • The Answer is No. And No Cell Phones, Either!

    Number of comments: 7

    Here are the first paragraphs of Betsy Cohen’s story about a meeting between student activists and UM President George Dennision, who are at odds over an anti-sweatshop labor program:

    The long-awaited sit-down meeting with University of Montana President George Dennison lasted all of about eight minutes on Wednesday for a dozen [...]

    Posted: April 23, 2008, 5:08pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Run Ron Run!

    Number of comments: 6

    It’s not really clear what Ron Paul is running for by sticking with his campaign for the presidency. Attention? To further the debate about, well what exactly? To make Republicans feel like they still have a choice?

    In any case, Paul visited Missoula on Monday on his quixotic mission. Check our [...]

    Posted: April 21, 2008, 4:55pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Golf, Swimming, Tennis, Oh My!

    Number of comments: 2

    Times are tough all over, and one way to solve financial problems in school districts is to cut programs. Here’s the opening of Rob Chaney’s story about possible cuts to sports programs in Missoula schools:

    “Assumptions that Missoula high schools will lose some sports programs next year are premature, but such [...]

    Posted: April 18, 2008, 4:58pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • How far would you go for your favorite flavor?

    Number of comments: 7

    Missoula police say one woman went too far. She’s accused of breaking into Big Dipper and making herself a cone.
    Read the details in Tristan Scott’s story, then take this opportunity to weigh in with your most tempting flavors.

    [...]
    Posted: April 17, 2008, 9:23pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Big tobacco

    It’s tough to resist a story that begins “Twenty-eight years ago, scientist Victor DeNoble was sitting around with a bunch of drunk monkeys when the telephone rang.”
    And Vince Devlin’s tale of a former Philip Morris scientist only gets better. It’s got drugs, death, conspiracy, those drunk monkeys - and [...]

    Posted: April 17, 2008, 9:22pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Putting the Bad in Bad Faith

    Number of comments: 2

    Here’s the opening of Tristan Scott’s story about a bad-faith case that will cost an insurance company a ton of money:

    A U.S. District Court jury in Missoula awarded a Big Fork woman $5.3 million in damages earlier this month in the largest bad-faith insurance verdict in Montana history.
    After a [...]

    Posted: April 17, 2008, 5:26pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Subprime Fallout

    Here are the first few paragraphs of Pam Podger’s story about the subprime mortgage mess, the rest of which appears in Friday’s paper and online at missoulian.com:

    While most Montana banks avoided the subprime mortgage mess, the ripples of tighter credit and a dragging national economy havent played out yet, according [...]

    Posted: April 17, 2008, 4:58pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • A Real (Estate) Plum (Creek)

    Number of comments: 9

    Mark Rey, the sometimes controversial undersecretary of agriculture for the Bush Administration, is coming to Montana to talk about easements on Plum Creek land. Lately, counties have been getting more than a little nervous about the timber giant’s plan to convert former timberlands into residential development.

    Sen. Jon Tester has perked [...]

    Posted: April 16, 2008, 5:17pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • No More Sweatshops

    Number of comments: 8

    Here’s the opening from Murphy Woodhouse’s story about a protest at the University of Montana:

    “A group of University of Montana students protesting sweatshops staged a sit-in at university President George Dennisons office in Main Hall Wednesday afternoon and refused to leave.

    Were going to be here till Friday” when Dennison is [...]

    Posted: April 16, 2008, 5:09pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • The Sloth Generation

    Number of comments: 1

    A new study by the University of Montana shows that Missoula teens are getting next to no exercise. How can that be? Here we are in the midst of an outdoor wonderland and kids aren’t getting even five minutes of exercise a day. Hmmmmm.

    Video games, TV, too many “organized” activities. [...]

    Posted: April 14, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Youre Fired!

    Number of comments: 3

    The Darby school board fired high-school principal Dan Peters last month, and they were looking at firing him against last night. Huh? Well, as usual in Darby, there are ghosts in the machine, and maybe the firing wasn’t entirely above board. And then there’s the matter of Town Marshal Larry [...]

    Posted: April 14, 2008, 4:25pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Bitterroot Resort Moves Ahead

    Tom Maclay and the Bitterroot Resort now have a proposal before the U.S. Forest Service. Read about the proposal on the front page of Friday’s paper or on missoulian.com, then get back to us with your thoughts about the proposed resort. It’s high time we had a thread for folks [...]

    Posted: April 11, 2008, 10:08pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Speed Up! No, Wait, Slow Down!

    Number of comments: 4

    Here are the first couple of paragraph’s from Chelsi Moy’s story about Highway 93 in Thursday’s newspaper:

    Should the speed limit on U.S. Highway 93 between Lolo and Missoula be lower?
    The 2007 Legislature increased the speed along that same stretch from 65 mph to 70 mph.
    Now, the state is [...]

    Posted: April 09, 2008, 5:23pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Whither the Olympics

    Folks in Paris are going nuts about the Olympics and China, and frankly, the reaction is pretty understandable. The Olympic torch relay was in Paris on Monday and to say things went poorly is an understatement. In fact, a reference to the torch as the “flame of shame” was about [...]

    Posted: April 08, 2008, 10:29am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Saving Grace Revisited

    The W. R. Grace Co. has agreed to pay $3 billion in cash and equity over the next 24 years to resolve asbestos-related claims against the company. Some of that money will eventually be distributed to the unfortunate citizens of Libby, where Grace mined vermiculite for years. At least 255 [...]

    Posted: April 08, 2008, 10:07am EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • The Week that Was

    I have to apologize to you faithful blog readers for what can only be described as a fairly lame performance this week. Sure, we got some stories up for folks to comment on, but we didn’t really provide enough posts this week.

    The problem was the Obama and Clinton appearances. You [...]

    Posted: April 04, 2008, 5:13pm EDT
    by Michael Moore
  • Choose Me! Choose Me!

    We’re feeling pretty special here in Montana, as the Obama and Clinton campaigns send a message we’re not very familiar with — Montana matters in the presidential election! At least in the Democratic primary, that is.

    Obama leads Clinton in the delegate count, but the race is close enough for Montana’s [...]

    Posted: April 03, 2008, 5:19pm EDT
    by Michael Moore

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