Two Views of the Tester Forest Jobs and Recreation Bill
By Thomas Michael Power
(Dr. Thomas Michael Power is the former Chair of the Economics Department at the [...]
(Dr. Thomas Michael Power is the former Chair of the Economics Department at the [...]
Some links...and these are just a handful of opinions of what's out there:
Mike Dennison's [...]
Again, the genesis of the project from the Indy report:
During a visit to the University of Montana [...]
The info will clearly demonstrate how Sen. Tester's S.1470, which would Congressionally mandate a minimum of 7,000 acres of logging per year for ten years on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, [...]
That's one reason why what Annie Bukacek is doing is so, so wrong. Bukacek is an uber-right,' [...]
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus' office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana.
Hanes withdrew her name from' [...]
A look at key Democratic constituencies shows how demoralized the party's base currently is. Among African-Americans, just 34 percent are likely to [...]
The news is far more mixed in Montana, where tax revenues are down and are likely [...]
During a visit to the University of Montana Oct. 8, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina spoke briefly about the political fire ignited among America's youth by President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Their passion, sparked by the unconventional tools of the digital age, helped sweep Obama' [...]
Republicans want cops to patrol polling places where minorities vote, take photos of those voters, and use lists to challenge their voter registrations. The RNC argued that, now that a black' [...]
But it's this quote from Chamber President, Kim Latrielle, that pretty much explains why CoCs operate the way they do:
The Missoula Chamber [...]
It's no fun to watch this unfold. And yet this is the exactly the sort of drama you should expect for the next few weeks, as the Senate deliberations play out.
The bill Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced last week is not everything it could [...]
The raw data from CRU is not "lost":
So what did happen? CRU took the raw data from various primary sources, aggregated it and then made adjustments. It is some of the aggregation that they threw out when they [...]
That either means that politicians have failed in a major way to explain its benefits [...]
State police, working with the FBI, said at a press conference moments ago that Sparkman had recently taken out two life insurance policies that would not pay out for suicide. It appears Sparkman hoped that the scheme would benefit [...]
Let's put some numbers to the question. This week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, via its HealthReform.gov site, provided a new breakdown of benefits of the Senate Bill for the Big Sky State.
Proposed reforms would provide:
* [...]
My friend Jay Stevens wrote a while ago that his problem with the excise tax was that it penalized spending on healthcare and that we should be happy to encourage people [...]
According to the article, the Montana Chamber and the state chapter of the National [...]
Dodd said outdated rules leave regulators unable to keep pace with the industry.
"Our financial regulatory system, created piece by piece over decades with little thought given to how it" [...]
The act will give a lift to Montana's small businesses and working families by providing stable, quality health care. It will strengthen Medicare and control runaway costs while meeting the particular needs of the [...]
In the cities, ACT UP raised awareness of our anger and sadness, Gay Men's advocacy groups' [...]
PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting [...]
Some of its provisions:
- A public option with a state opt-out clause
- Increase payroll tax on Medicare for high-income people
- A tax on high-cost, "Cadillac" health care plans
- Does not prohibit insurers from covering abortions, like the House bill's Stupak amendment
- [...]
With his prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that "ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party" "tampered" with results to deny him victory.
You've got to read the letter to believe' [...]
All the right wants to talk about is a bow President Obama made in Japan, while the rest of the media world wants to talk about Sarah Palin and her new book, and Levi Johnston and his Playgirl [...]
Lcross, which stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, crashed into the moon Oct. 9. Northrop Grumman Corp. built the $79 million craft, comprised of a rocket and a followup probe, which plunged into a crater near the moon's' [...]
For some folks, this is [...]
But listen to what [...]
It was reported today that Annie Bukacek of the Montana Policy Institute's anti-health care "conferences" and demonstrations and the abortion ban ballot initiative backed by Warburton, McGee, [...]
Senior [...]
The Human Rights Campaign breaks the news:
The Human Rights Campaign can now confirm the House Education and Labor Committee will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. [...]
There's plenty of discussion among LGBT circles right now [...]
And a bonus post on dogs and children greeting soldiers returning from deployment....
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CIA kidnappings may have involved
Rep. Denny Rehberg, who joined all but one of his fellow Republicans in voting "no" Saturday on the major health-reform bill that passed the U.S. House, said the measure is an ill-advised "trillion-dollar government takeover of health" [...]
First, Democrats struck a deal over healthcare to win the support of Catholic bishops by allowing an amendment to reach the House floor that would disallow any insurance passed in the health insurance exchange to [...]
