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  • What does Coal Country Montana Mean?

    Number of comments: 9
    by jhwygirl We’ve blogged a number of times here about the Tongue River, coal and sequestration fallacies, and the state’s Otter Creek tracts – all of these are intertwined with a number of issues that are presenting themselves currently in the form of the state determining whether leasing of its own [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:31pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • More Reasons Why Montana Otter Not the Coals Leases on Otter Creek

    Number of comments: 3
    by jhwygirl The state Land Board is currently mulling an additional 30 days over the coal leases in the Powder River drainage (the Otter Creek coal leases), giving members time to consider the applicability of a year-old market analysis on the value of the coal (which was compiled pre-EPA ruling and [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by jhwygirl

  • “This is the end…” ???

    Number of comments: 10
    by JC This upcoming week marks Barack Obama’s taking full ownership of the Afghan war, and escalating it to over a hundred thousand troops. To those of us who lived during the Vietnam war the similarities are eery. That war changed the history of this country–not because of the war or [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:14pm EST
    by JC

  • Local Publisher’s Pet Snagged in Trap

    Number of comments: 10
    by jhwygirl Lacking an identifying tag, the thing’s illegal, right? Publisher, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of NewWest Publishing Jonathan Weber was walking his pet in his families subdivision – in the open space area owned in common with all of the homeowners – along a trail used by many when his dog got [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:50pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Female Greco-Roman Wrestling

    Number of comments: 2
    by jhwygirl One very impressive Hellgate junior that I know informed me yesterday that he’s taken up wrestling for the winter, after yet another year of yet another successful season running cross country. Wrestling was probably my favorite sport – spectator sports – in high school. The impressive Hellgate junior also [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:33am EST
    by jhwygirl

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Number of comments: 5
    by JC Consider this an open thread. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by JC

  • Palin/Beck ‘12? “We’ll see, we’ll see!”

    Number of comments: 5
    by JC Happy, happy Joy, joy!!! Yeah baby. Run Sarah run!!! Update: Glenn Beck ruled out a Palin-Beck ticket today: “Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck — can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She’d be yapping or something, and I’d [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:22pm EST
    by JC

  • Barry Beach to Get New Trial

    Number of comments: 3
    by jhwgirl Pretty big deal. Montana’s Supreme Court remanded Beach’s case back to court to assess potential new evidence. The court ruling came unanimously. As Great Falls Tribune Helena bureau reporter John S. Adams points out, Beach has consistently maintained his innocence, despite his confession which is says was coerced. He’s also [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:58pm EST
    by jhwygirl

  • “A Medical Ghetto Called Medicaid”

    Number of comments: 10
    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

    Number of comments: 7
    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

    Number of comments: 8
    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

    Number of comments: 8
    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?

    Number of comments: 2
    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.

    Number of comments: 6
    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

    Number of comments: 2
    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

    Number of comments: 10
    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…

    Number of comments: 10
    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

    Number of comments: 10
    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?

    Number of comments: 9
    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

    Number of comments: 10
    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

    Number of comments: 10
    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?

    Number of comments: 10
    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
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