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  • Following California off the Cliff

    Heavy use of citizen initiatives is one of the clearest predictions of states that are in danger of following California "to the brink of insolvency," according to an extensive survey of state financial problems by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States. Oregon, looking toward a critical vote in January, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • Following California off the Cliff

    Heavy use of citizen initiatives is one of the clearest predictions of states that are in danger of following California "to the brink of insolvency," according to an extensive survey of state financial problems by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States. Oregon, looking toward a critical vote in January, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • Saturday: Crapo Delivers National Address on Health Bill

    Saturday, Idaho Senator Mike Crapo delivered a national address on the health care legislation expected to be considered by the U.S. Senate Saturday evening.  Crapo was chosen by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to offer the Republican response to the President's weekly radio address.  A vote in the Senate on [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:16am EST

  • Saturday: Crapo Delivers National Address on Health Bill

    Saturday, Idaho Senator Mike Crapo delivered a national address on the health care legislation expected to be considered by the U.S. Senate Saturday evening.  Crapo was chosen by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to offer the Republican response to the President's weekly radio address.  A vote in the Senate on [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:16am EST

  • Saturday: Crapo Delivers National Address on Health Bill

    Saturday, Idaho Senator Mike Crapo delivered a national address on the health care legislation expected to be considered by the U.S. Senate Saturday evening.  Crapo was chosen by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to offer the Republican response to the President's weekly radio address.  A vote in the Senate on [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:16am EST

  • Young Men and Fire: Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn"

    The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27 In August of 1910, the largest fire ever to sweep across forests in the United States claimed trees, buildings, and lives across a stretch of three million acres in the Rocky Mountains.  Timothy [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Young Men and Fire: Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn"

    The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27 In August of 1910, the largest fire ever to sweep across forests in the United States claimed trees, buildings, and lives across a stretch of three million acres in the Rocky Mountains.  Timothy [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Young Men and Fire: Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn"

    The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 324 pages, $27 In August of 1910, the largest fire ever to sweep across forests in the United States claimed trees, buildings, and lives across a stretch of three million acres in the Rocky Mountains.  Timothy [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Resorts Hope Olympics will be Golden for Snow Sports

    Skiing and snowboarding aren't exactly the TV spectacles that baseball and football are in this country, but every four years when the Winter Olympics roll around, they have their moment in the spotlight. Resort operators hope the Olympics will inspire more people to get out on the slopes this winter, and' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:12am EST

  • Resorts Hope Olympics will be Golden for Snow Sports

    Skiing and snowboarding aren't exactly the TV spectacles that baseball and football are in this country, but every four years when the Winter Olympics roll around, they have their moment in the spotlight. Resort operators hope the Olympics will inspire more people to get out on the slopes this winter, and' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:12am EST

  • Resorts Hope Olympics will be Golden for Snow Sports

    Skiing and snowboarding aren't exactly the TV spectacles that baseball and football are in this country, but every four years when the Winter Olympics roll around, they have their moment in the spotlight. Resort operators hope the Olympics will inspire more people to get out on the slopes this winter, and' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:12am EST

  • Grizzlies On the Move, Back to the Wide-Open Prairie

    Montanans living along the winding Teton River, well east of the Rocky Mountain Front were quick to notice their new neighbor this summer. As early as the beginning of July, ranchers and other landowners along the prairie began intermittently spotting a solitary grizzly bear journeying east away from the mountains. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • Flu Update: H1N1 Cases Down, But is Uptick Ahead?

    As flu pandemics go, H1N1 sometimes seems hard to compute, given all the information flooding our way. Is it a panic? An impending storm? A party theme? Yes, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that some people are hosting "swine flu parties" where people who know someone with H1N1 purposely [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST

  • Saving Public Access: the Pend Oreille Bay Trail

    For years, panhandle residents have been trespassing on a narrow strip of private land along the northwest shore of Lake Pend Oreille, using an old road along the shoreline to bike, run, ski, walk their dogs, and occasionally take a dip in the lake. Although their trips rarely traverse more [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:05am EST

  • Senate Health Care Bill Now on the Table

    Senate Majority Leader Reid released an $849 billion healthcare overhaul bill Wednesday that includes a public option and will extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans, though a few Democrats are still on the fence over whether they will vote to proceed to the bill. The bill would extend insurance to [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More

    I used to play basketball, but not too much since the day my coach took me aside, patted me on the head, and said, "Bill, you're short, but you're slow, and you really need to follow your shots." Well, that was a long time ago, and I admit to never [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:14am EST

  • Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More

    I used to play basketball, but not too much since the day my coach took me aside, patted me on the head, and said, "Bill, you're short, but you're slow, and you really need to follow your shots." Well, that was a long time ago, and I admit to never [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:14am EST

  • Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More

    I used to play basketball, but not too much since the day my coach took me aside, patted me on the head, and said, "Bill, you're short, but you're slow, and you really need to follow your shots." Well, that was a long time ago, and I admit to never [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:14am EST

  • Kids, Road Rage, Gun Laws, Union Conservationists, and More

    I used to play basketball, but not too much since the day my coach took me aside, patted me on the head, and said, "Bill, you're short, but you're slow, and you really need to follow your shots." Well, that was a long time ago, and I admit to never [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:14am EST

  • Minnick's Bill on Job Training "AMERICA Works" Targets Focused Training Goals

    It can be scary for adults to change careers, but the recession has handed many American workers no choice. Enrollment at trade schools, community colleges and specialized private colleges has increased all over the U.S.  But whether or not graduates of these programs find work in their new area of [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:07pm EST

  • Saving Public Access: the Pend Oreille Bay Trail

    For years, panhandle residents have been trespassing on a narrow strip of private land along the northwest shore of Lake Pend Oreille, using an old road along the shoreline to bike, run, ski, walk their dogs, and occasionally take a dip in the lake. Although their trips rarely traverse more [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:05am EST

  • Denver Writer, Formerly an Out-of-Shape Hiker, Wins the National Outdoor Book Award

    The Denver Post reported this weekend that Denver writer Mark Obmascik's Halfway to Heaven: My White Knuckled and Knuckleheaded-Quest for the Rocky Mountain High won this year's outdoor literature prize from the National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation: "The book is about climbing Colorado's 14,000-plus foot mountains, all 54 of them, [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Marijuana, Guns and Oregon

    It's no secret there are a number of Oregonians who enjoy smoking marijuana. And while that may be the case, there are millions in the West who don't enjoy having their water polluted to produce the plant. An estimated 200,000 marijuana plants were discovered in raids during the Oregon growing' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:22pm EST

  • Petroleum Industry View: Climate Bill Would Cost Montanans

    The following opinion piece is from the Montana Petroleum Association. While the U.S. Senate considers a "cap-and-trade" bill that includes creation of a new federal bureaucracy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Montana Petroleum Association (MPA) is becoming more concerned about the toll such a plan would take on our industry [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:51pm EST

  • Mad Dog and the Pilgrim Booksellers

    Sweetwater Station, Wyo.--If you blink once or your attention drifts for an instant on the two-lane highway between Muddy Gap and the Lander, Wyoming, you may miss one of the world's great road signs, a weathered, wooden square flanked by an American flag:  "Old Books Fresh Eggs For Sale." And if [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:27am EST

  • Buying Music I Love At the Store I Hate

    A friend of mine gave me the new KISS album, "Sonic Boom," for my birthday this weekend. We're both fans, and it was a thoughtful gesture of rock 'n roll solidarity as well as friendship. But when I unwrapped the package, my first thought was not, "Wow, the cover looks [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:20am EST

  • Buying Music I Love At the Store I Hate

    A friend of mine gave me the new KISS album, "Sonic Boom," for my birthday this weekend. We're both fans, and it was a thoughtful gesture of rock 'n roll solidarity as well as friendship. But when I unwrapped the package, my first thought was not, "Wow, the cover looks [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:20am EST

  • Montana Children: the Healthy, the Needy, and the Sad

    Every year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation supports an amazingly comprehensive and important look at the well-being of the nation's children, taking into account, state-by-state, the factors that help or hinder children's welfare. The foundation's "Kids Counts" reports look at leading indicators like poverty rates, the availability of daycare, school [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:02pm EST

  • Montana Wolf Hunt is Over: Quotas Filled Early

    A half-hour after sunset tonight, Montana's first official wolf hunt--arguably the most controversial hunting season in recent history--will be over. Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks department announced the shut-down after reports came in that 72 wolves had been killed as of Sunday evening, meaning that hunters were fast closing in [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:28pm EST

  • Montana Wolf Hunt is Over: Quotas Filled Early

    A half-hour after sunset tonight, Montana's first official wolf hunt--arguably the most controversial hunting season in recent history--will be over. Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks department announced the shut-down after reports came in that 72 wolves had been killed as of Sunday evening, meaning that hunters were fast closing in [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:28pm EST

  • Interior, Forest Service Buy Key Private Land Holdings

    The Bureau of Land Management announced on Monday it is buying a key piece of private land in the midst of southwest Colorado's Canyon of the Ancients National Monument believed to hold hundreds of undocumented prehistoric sites. The purchase is of one of seven deals to buy 5,026 acres of private [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:11pm EST

  • Through Western Eyes: Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. is a town where an arcane government and a logical street grid are muddled by overlap and diagonal lines. But the reverent preservation and displays of America's history have a clear and tangible path. In a town where the ghosts of American history wait for you to discover them, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • Through Western Eyes: Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. is a town where an arcane government and a logical street grid are muddled by overlap and diagonal lines. But the reverent preservation and displays of America's history have a clear and tangible path. In a town where the ghosts of American history wait for you to discover them, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • Through Western Eyes: Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. is a town where an arcane government and a logical street grid are muddled by overlap and diagonal lines. But the reverent preservation and displays of America's history have a clear and tangible path. In a town where the ghosts of American history wait for you to discover them, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • Through Western Eyes: Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. is a town where an arcane government and a logical street grid are muddled by overlap and diagonal lines. But the reverent preservation and displays of America's history have a clear and tangible path, and the town seems straightforward that way. In a town where the ghosts of American [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • Through Western Eyes: Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C. is a town where an arcane government and a logical street grid are muddled by overlap and diagonal lines. But the reverent preservation and displays of America's history have a clear and tangible path, and the town seems straightforward that way. In a town where the ghosts of American [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:01am EST

  • Spanish-English Kids Books from Cinco Puntos Press

    Thanks to television shows such as Dora the Explorer, Maya and Miguel, and the trusty Sesame Street, many kids growing up in English-speaking homes can count to ten and say hello in Spanish. Cinco Puntos Press, based in El Paso, specializes in literature that straddles the U.S./Mexico border, and publishes [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Spanish-English Kids Books from Cinco Puntos Press

    Thanks to television shows such as Dora the Explorer, Maya and Miguel, and the trusty Sesame Street, many kids growing up in English-speaking homes can count to ten and say hello in Spanish. Cinco Puntos Press, based in El Paso, specializes in literature that straddles the U.S./Mexico border, and publishes [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Spanish-English Kids Books from Cinco Puntos Press

    Thanks to television shows such as Dora the Explorer, Maya and Miguel, and the trusty Sesame Street, many kids growing up in English-speaking homes can count to ten and say hello in Spanish. Cinco Puntos Press, based in El Paso, specializes in literature that straddles the U.S./Mexico border, and publishes [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Commercial Real Estate Outlook Darkens

    Like the residential real estate bubble, the commercial real estate boom of 2003-2007 was fed by cheap money and lax lending standards. Institutional investors such as hedge funds and insurance companies - strangely blind to the possibility that real estate values could decline - had an insatiable appetite for any [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:37am EST

  • Commercial Real Estate Outlook Darkens

    Like the residential real estate bubble, the commercial real estate boom of 2003-2007 was fed by cheap money and lax lending standards. Institutional investors such as hedge funds and insurance companies - strangely blind to the possibility that real estate values could decline - had an insatiable appetite for any [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:37am EST

  • Timber Falls, But Manufacturing Rises in the Panhandle

    What stands out from the "first annual" Economic Outlook Forum that was held in Sandpoint Thursday is the extent to which the panhandle continues to grow away from its roots in the timber industry. This process has been going on for decades, but the current recession and concomitant implosion of [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:26am EST

  • Timber Falls, But Manufacturing Rises in the Panhandle

    What stands out from the "first annual" Economic Outlook Forum that was held in Sandpoint Thursday is the extent to which the panhandle continues to grow away from its roots in the timber industry. This process has been going on for decades, but the current recession and concomitant implosion of [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:26am EST

  • Battle in Seattle, Ten Years After

    With the 10th anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" coming up Nov. 30, expect a lot of stories about WTO. The Seattle Times, for example, is already asking you to send in your memories of 1999. Coverage will include "then-and-now" looks at how the world has and hasn't changed. One interesting' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:10pm EST

  • Parkour: We Ain't Afraid Of No Concrete!

    If you see a sweaty young guy sprinting past you downtown or on the University campus, jumping over trash cans and picnic tables and doing flips over concrete barriers or other architectural features, relax. He's not a purse snatcher, he's just practicing parkour. Rusty's latest obsession has Barb and me cringing [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:40am EST

  • Parkour: We Ain't Afraid Of No Concrete!

    If you see a sweaty young guy sprinting past you downtown or on the University campus, jumping over trash cans and picnic tables and doing flips over concrete barriers or other architectural features, relax. He's not a purse snatcher, he's just practicing parkour. Rusty's latest obsession has Barb and me cringing [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:40am EST

  • Reappraisal Process Works, But Will Ire Catch Fire?

    In late summer and early fall, many Montanans were unpleasantly surprised to receive notices telling them their property values had skyrocketed. The reappraisals, due every six years from the state Department of Revenue, meant their property taxes would take a big leap forward, too. In areas like Gallatin and Flathead [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:32am EST

  • Reappraisal Process Works, But Will Ire Catch Fire?

    In late summer and early fall, many Montanans were unpleasantly surprised to receive notices telling them their property values had skyrocketed. The reappraisals, due every six years from the state Department of Revenue, meant their property taxes would take a big leap forward, too. In areas like Gallatin and Flathead [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:32am EST

  • An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

    Dear Mr. Buffett: I read with interest and glee about your recent acquisition of the majority ownership in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Congratulations on buying a great company--investment wise, I should clarify, because BNSF is a not-so-great company on the public relations front. Now that you own the railroad, you can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

    Dear Mr. Buffett: I read with interest and glee about your recent acquisition of the majority ownership in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Congratulations on buying a great company--investment wise, I should clarify, because BNSF is a not-so-great company on the public relations front. Now that you own the railroad, you can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

    Dear Mr. Buffett: I read with interest and glee about your recent acquisition of the majority ownership in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Congratulations on buying a great company--investment wise, I should clarify, because BNSF is a not-so-great company on the public relations front. Now that you own the railroad, you can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

    Dear Mr. Buffett: I read with interest and glee about your recent acquisition of the majority ownership in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Congratulations on buying a great company--investment wise, I should clarify, because BNSF is a not-so-great company on the public relations front. Now that you own the railroad, you can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • An Open Letter to Warren Buffett

    Dear Mr. Buffett: I read with interest and glee about your recent acquisition of the majority ownership in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Congratulations on buying a great company--investment wise, I should clarify, because BNSF is a not-so-great company on the public relations front. Now that you own the railroad, you can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • Portland Public Transit Provides Lesson for Boise, Pundit Warns

    Public transit, such as Boise's proposed streetcar, is bad for the economy and bad for the environment. Just ask Randal O'Toole, who works on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues at the Cato Institute, and who spoke in Boise today about public transit, particularly in Portland. By the way, O'Toole [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:56pm EST

  • Portland Public Transit Provides Lesson for Boise, Pundit Warns

    Public transit, such as Boise's proposed streetcar, is bad for the economy and bad for the environment. Just ask Randal O'Toole, who works on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues at the Cato Institute, and who spoke in Boise today about public transit, particularly in Portland. By the way, O'Toole [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:56pm EST

  • Portland Public Transit Provides Lesson for Boise, Pundit Warns

    Public transit, such as Boise's proposed streetcar, is bad for the economy and bad for the environment. Just ask Randal O'Toole, who works on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues at the Cato Institute, and who spoke in Boise today about public transit, particularly in Portland. By the way, O'Toole [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:56pm EST

  • Good News for Boise State's Idaho Review and Denver Music Writer Steve Knopper

    Economic conditions and their implications for the book industry continue to be dire, and yet I have mostly good news to report this week. • First, several prestigious literary magazines across the nation are facing budget cuts or conversion to online-only publication, including the New England Review, TriQuarterly, and The Southern [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:05am EST

  • Is UM Green Enough? Yes, and Growing Greener

    UM has now launched its new Climate Change Studies minor program, the first of its kind in the nation. Last spring, the Green Thread Initiative held its first workshop to help professors introduce climate and sustainability topics into their curriculum, allowing more environmental dialogue throughout campus. Faculty members across campus [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:10pm EST

  • Is UM Green Enough? Yes, and Growing Greener

    UM has now launched its new Climate Change Studies minor program, the first of its kind in the nation. Last spring, the Green Thread Initiative held its first workshop to help professors introduce climate and sustainability topics into their curriculum, allowing more environmental dialogue throughout campus. Faculty members across campus [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:10pm EST

  • Is UM Green Enough? Yes, and Growing Greener

    UM has now launched its new Climate Change Studies minor program, the first of its kind in the nation. Last spring, the Green Thread Initiative held its first workshop to help professors introduce climate and sustainability topics into their curriculum, allowing more environmental dialogue throughout campus. Faculty members across campus [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:10pm EST

  • It's a License Plate--It's Supposed To Be Boring

    I love art. You love art. John loves art. We all love art. But a vehicle's license plate is no place for art. That's what I've been bitching about for years in Montana, as the debate periodically bubbles up about the ever-fancier license plate design. "I want more clouds." "I' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:17pm EST

  • A Note from the Frog/Pond Interface

    Individuals may differ on whether they prefer a metaphorical existence as relatively small creatures in large, imposing bodies of water (like Seattle, for example), or massively important animals in puddles whose global significance is less evident (except to them, perhaps). In the latter, one person's action can make a substantial [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:48pm EST

  • New Asbestos Treatment, Research, Screening in Libby

    New studies and health initiatives are unfolding in Libby this fall, all of them tied to the former vermiculite mine operated by W.R. Grace & Co., which left the town contaminated with a uniquely dangerous form of asbestos. Back in June, federal officials announced a public health emergency Libby, Montana, helping [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:44am EST

  • West is a Sexy Place in "Best of the West 2009"

    Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton, foreword by Rick Bass University of Texas Press, 268 pages, $19.95 Best of the West 2009 is a welcome revival of anthology series that ran from 1988 through 1992, collecting outstanding [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • West is a Sexy Place in "Best of the West 2009"

    Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton, foreword by Rick Bass University of Texas Press, 268 pages, $19.95 Best of the West 2009 is a welcome revival of anthology series that ran from 1988 through 1992, collecting outstanding [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • West is a Sexy Place in "Best of the West 2009"

    Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton, foreword by Rick Bass University of Texas Press, 268 pages, $19.95 Best of the West 2009 is a welcome revival of anthology series that ran from 1988 through 1992, collecting outstanding [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Carly Fiorina for....What Did You Say?

    Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has announced she's running for Senate in California, hoping to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Long one of Boise's biggest employers, HP is part of Idaho culture. It didn't take long for the Fiorina chatter to show up on Idaho blogs, including Tom von Alten's [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:14pm EST

  • Carly Fiorina for....What Did You Say?

    Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has announced she's running for Senate in California, hoping to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Long one of Boise's biggest employers, HP is part of Idaho culture. It didn't take long for the Fiorina chatter to show up on Idaho blogs, including Tom von Alten's [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:14pm EST

  • Property Tax Go-Round: Schweitzer Nixes Request for Special Session

    A request by the Northwest Montana Association of Realtors calling for a special session of the state Legislature to address "current inadequacies" in the property tax reappraisal carried out in the 2009 regular session was immediately swatted down by Gov. Brian Schweitzer last week. The letter, written by NMAR President Barb [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:21am EST

  • Commissioners Cogitate Over Consumption by Car

    The Sandpoint City Council hit a hot button last year when it proposed a temporary restriction on the construction of drive-through fast-food places. Council members wanted some time to consider how this kind of land use fit with the newly minted Comprehensive Plan, and the city had sprouted a drive-through [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:45am EST

  • If U txt & drv U suk

    Finally, some good news about drinking and driving. Car and Driver magazine reported that texting while driving is more dangerous than drunken driving, thanks mostly to self-absorbed teenagers and undisciplined technodorks behind the wheel. Texting and talking on cell phones while driving resulted in almost 6,000 deaths on U.S. roads last [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:06am EST

  • Open Fields Still Closed

    Open Fields was a "major victory" for hunters and wildlife conservation, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and many other green groups that lobbied for it. It passed back in December 2008, but almost a year later, this innovative hunter access program is still mired in the administrative [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:56am EST

  • "Open Fields" Hunting Access Program Needs a Push

    Open Fields was a "major victory" for hunters and wildlife conservation, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and many other green groups that lobbied for it. It passed back in December 2008, but almost a year later, this innovative hunter access program is still mired in the administrative [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:56am EST

  • "Open Fields" Hunting Access Program Needs a Push

    Open Fields was a "major victory" for hunters and wildlife conservation, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and many other green groups that lobbied for it. It passed back in December 2008, but almost a year later, this innovative hunter access program is still mired in the administrative [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:56am EST

  • "Open Fields" Hunting Access Program Needs a Push

    Open Fields was a "major victory" for hunters and wildlife conservation, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and many other green groups that lobbied for it. It passed back in December 2008, but almost a year later, this innovative hunter access program is still mired in the administrative [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:56am EST

  • Keeping It Underground In Oregon's Lava Caves

    For the past several days a walnut-sized lump has been throbbing on the top of my skull. This morning when I attempted to shampoo my hair, the scrubbing motion nearly brought me to tears. I can't wear my blue baseball hat without feeling pain. The cause of the hideous and' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:56pm EST

  • As Millions of Acres Come Out of Conservation Reserve Program, What's Next?

    More than 3 million acres of farmland in the country is ready to be broken again this season, freed up from contracts from the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a little-known farm program that has large implications for land-use in the West and Midwest. Roxana Hegeman of the Associated Press details the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:04am EST

  • Election Highlights from Around the Rockies

    The elections that attracted national attention Tuesday were all on the East Coast, with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (suddenly burdened by his previous job as head of Goldman Sachs) going down to defeat and conservative Republican activists like Sarah Palin failing in their effort to override the local party [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:44am EST

  • Election Highlights from Around the Rockies

    The elections that attracted national attention Tuesday were all on the East Coast, with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (suddenly burdened by his previous job as head of Goldman Sachs) going down to defeat and conservative Republican activists like Sarah Palin failing in their effort to override the local party [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:44am EST

  • Utah and Oregon Book Awards Announced and Hooray, I Sold My Novel!

    As I've mentioned on a couple of occasions over the years I've written the Roundup, when I'm not reading other people's books, I'm trying to write my own, and after many, many years of effort, I have some good news: my first novel, The Ringer, will be published by The [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Utah and Oregon Book Awards Announced and Hooray, I Sold My Novel!

    As I've mentioned on a couple of occasions over the years I've written the Roundup, when I'm not reading other people's books, I'm trying to write my own, and after many, many years of effort, I have some good news: my first novel, The Ringer, will be published by The [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Feds Grant $30 million for Central Oregon Geothermal Project

    A Central Oregon geothermal project many years in the making continues to heat up following a recent announcement that nearly $30 million will go toward work near Newberry Crater. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the Energy Department grants would be coming through for seven Oregon projects. An estimated [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:03pm EST

  • Economic Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble

    With slow but steady improvement in the economy's vital signs, two questions are gnawing at analysts' brain pans.  First, is this a sustainable recovery with the power to fuel substantial job growth?  Second, what will happen when the "double bubble" ruptures and some $1.7 trillion in commercial real estate notes' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:16am EST

  • It's Wrong Not to Vote

    Refusing to vote, declining to vote, or not being informed enough to vote is a serious wrong. Ever since our high school civics teachers pounded our heads with "voting is a privilege, not a right" we all should know this. But apparently we don't. The turnout in today's election is estimated' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:09am EST

  • It's Wrong Not to Vote

    Refusing to vote, declining to vote, or not being informed enough to vote is a serious wrong. Ever since our high school civics teachers pounded our heads about the right to vote, we all should know this. But apparently we don't. The turnout in today's election is estimated at 20 to' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:09am EST

  • Idaho Awaiting Broadband Mapping Grant

    In addition to funding broadband projects in the states, particularly in rural areas, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, includes funds for collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:34pm EST

  • Idaho Awaiting Broadband Mapping Grant

    In addition to funding broadband projects in the states, particularly in rural areas, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, includes funds for collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:34pm EST

  • Weekend Essay: The Global Warming Debate

    The radio news squawk lately has been about Global Warming, the latest in an endless supply of silly partisan battles.  As I hear one team arguing that a new Senate bill will create jobs and save the planet, I hear the other team telling us that same Senate bill will [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:55pm EDT

  • Weekend Essay: the Global Warming Debate

    The radio news squawk lately has been about Global Warming, the latest in an endless supply of silly partisan battles.  As I hear one team arguing that a new Senate bill will create jobs and save the planet, I hear the other team telling us that same Senate bill will [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:55pm EDT

  • Weekend Essay: The Global Warming Debate

    The radio news squawk lately has been about Global Warming, the latest in an endless supply of silly partisan battles.  As I hear one team arguing that a new Senate bill will create jobs and save the planet, I hear the other team telling us that same Senate bill will [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:55pm EDT

  • New U.S. Parks Chief Puts Gloves On, Might Need Them

    A massive job awaits Jonathan Jarvis, the man who became chief of national parks this month, according to a fine feature story by Todd Wilkinson (which was published today in the Flathead Beacon). The new park service director, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service, kicked off his new job [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:50pm EDT

  • New U.S. Parks Chief Puts Gloves On, Might Need Them

    A massive job awaits Jonathan Jarvis, the man who became chief of national parks this month, according to a fine feature story by Todd Wilkinson (which was published today in the Flathead Beacon). The new park service director, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service, kicked off his new job [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:50pm EDT

  • New U.S. Parks Chief Puts Gloves On, Might Need Them

    A massive job awaits Jonathan Jarvis, the man who became chief of national parks this month, according to a fine feature story by Todd Wilkinson (which was published today in the Flathead Beacon). The new park service director, a 32-year veteran of the National Park Service, kicked off his new job [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:50pm EDT

  • Today's Jack-O-Lantern, Tomorrow's Roadkill

    "You got to caaaaarve that punkin, you gotta caaaaaarve that punkin..." I'm belting out these words to the tune of Southern Culture on the Skids' "Carve That Possum" when the kids get off the school bus. Their friends, doing their best Kilroy-Was-Here impression, watch me from the bus windows as [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:41am EDT

  • Choosing a Fishing Lodge

    So, you've finally decided to take that fishing trip of a lifetime--to Alaska, Canada, Patagonia, the Caribbean or another exotic location. Now, be sure you choose the right lodge. The cost is always key, of course, but hardly the only concern. Regardless of your passion--bonefish, tarpon, muskie, salmon, monster rainbows' [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:00am EDT

  • Choosing a Fishing Lodge

    So, you've finally decided to take that fishing trip of a lifetime--to Alaska, Canada, Patagonia, the Caribbean or another exotic location. Now, be sure you choose the right lodge. The cost is always key, of course, but hardly the only concern. Regardless of your passion--bonefish, tarpon, muskie, salmon, monster rainbows' [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:00am EDT

  • Lakedance Film Festival Returns to Sandpoint

    The fourth annual Lakedance Film Festival moves a little later into the fall this year, enabling it to kick off on Halloween night with four horror films: In addition to the classics "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Night of the Living Dead," two short films entered in the festival will [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:19pm EDT

  • Lakedance Film Festival Returns to Sandpoint

    The fourth annual Lakedance Film Festival moves a little later into the fall this year, enabling it to kick off on Halloween night with four horror films: In addition to the classics "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Night of the Living Dead," two short films entered in the festival will [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:19pm EDT

  • Economic Concerns Continue To Shape Climate Calculus

    An initial hearing Tuesday on revamped cap-and-trade legislation from Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-MA, and Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-CA) gave moderates a public mouthpiece that might spur concessions from party leaders down the road. At the hearing in Boxer's panel Tuesday, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:02pm EDT

  • Economic Concerns Continue To Shape Climate Calculus

    An initial hearing Tuesday on revamped cap-and-trade legislation from Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-MA, and Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-CA) gave moderates a public mouthpiece that might spur concessions from party leaders down the road. At the hearing in Boxer's panel Tuesday, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
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