The Burns & McDonnell report on Electric City Power, among other claims, asserts on page 19 (pdf) that NorthWestern’s energy rates between June 2008 and June 2009 have fluctuated between $70 and $80 per MWH.
I think this claim will come as some surprise to NorthWestern Energy itself, since we’ve [...]
When Bruce Bartlett, former Treasury Dept. economist under the Reagan administration, published his polemic Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy I applauded the fact that a credible member of the GOP establishment was calling out the Bush admin for its fiscal recklessness (although I [...]
The Tribune had a piece this weekend on a rift that is developing between various leaders of the medical marijuana movement.
Mike Smith, a ‘caregiver,’ commenting on the fact that the Tribune carried photos of two girls smoking a bowl in a park, and another fellow smoking a bowl on [...]
I’ve always loved Senate rules - especially the filibuster - because they are often the last line of defense between the people and the collective stupidity of Congress to inflict damage. But here’s a rule that I just learned about (and like equally as well.)
The Oklahoma Republican has threatened [...]
For some folks, this is [...]
So many appropriate sayings are going through my head: “Hindsight’s always 20/20″, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone”, “Act in haste, repent in leisure”, and, of course, “Better late than never”. All of them so right on so many levels for this post, starting with – I [...]
Our congressman has his eyes on 2012 apparently. Politico spotted him coming out of the RSCC offices, and cites a ‘mutual interest’ between the committee and Rehberg. I think he’d be a formidable challenger to Tester.
[...]Montana Rep. Dennis Rehberg met with Republican recruiters about a 2012 Senate run against Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday.
Rehberg, who was seen exiting the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Capitol Hill headquarters Thursday morning, is the state's lone representative in the House.
There's mutual interest between [...]
While rummaging through the municipal recycling bin the other day, I happened to come across an old textbook from 1991: Contemporary Urban Planning, Second Edition. Remembering that reusing is one notch better than recycling, I grabbed it and skimmed through some of the chapters. Chock [...] GOPers are celebrating and predicting 2010 gains while Dems are largely dismissing the results as unimportant losses based on local factors. I think it's somewhere in between.
As most Democrats point out, these elections aren't always the best indicators of what will happen a year from now. A year is a [...]
More than 70 years ago Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of modern ecological principles had the following to say about Wilderness:
"Wilderness is a resource" [...]
The Tribune had a piece today about the differences of opinion between Commissioner Mary Jolley and Commissioner Bill Beecher. You will recall that Commissoner Beecher ran a guest editorial, and Commissioner Jolley sent a response, both reprinted here. Jolley asked some very pointed questions in a very pointed way. [...]
I apologize to the Great Falls Tribune. In a post I put up last week, I included a photo. I don’t own the rights to that photo and I should know better. I was stupid and wasn’t thinking.
For a newspaper that puts up with an awful lot of crap [...]
Last week I gave the Tribune heck for its “he said, he said” style of reporting on the ongoing issues between the Cascade County Commission and the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office. My concern was that, other than each side suggesting that the other was wrong, nothing in the [...]
This week's Queen City News says "not much":
[I]t seems like the five-term congressman could be coming up with better ideas than trying to' [...]
