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  • There's More to Lady Gaga Than Fiery Nipples

    She can't sing. Her music is shallow, throwaway pop. She's more interested in showing off some T&A than in crafting any kind of quality songs. Her stage antics are vulgar, over the top, tasteless and exploitative. She's setting the women's movement back thirty years by presenting herself as an oversexed' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:12pm EST

  • Western Literary Magazine Roundup

    In this week's Roundup, I'll be taking a look at a few of the many literary magazines in our region. Whitefish Review is a journal based in Whitefish, Montana, that is five issues and two years into what will hopefully be a long and fruitful run.  Recently Whitefish Review gained nonprofit [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Health Reform Debate Continues Back Home

    Lawmakers are back in their districts for the week, but the healthcare debate rages on during the recess. In a memorandum to members, Senate Democratic leaders suggested this is a prime time to frame the debate because momentum is growing after Saturday night's vote to start debate on the measure. Americans' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:13pm EST

  • Energy Trade Groups Spreading 'Untruths,' Salazar Says

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took aim at oil and gas industry trade groups on Tuesday, accusing them of spreading untruths and launching poison attacks against the Obama administration. Trade groups for the oil and gas industry repeatedly launch attacks that have all the poison and assumption of election-year politics, Salazar said [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:40pm EST

  • Energy Trade Groups Spreading 'Untruths,' Salazar Says

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took aim at oil and gas industry trade groups on Tuesday, accusing them of spreading untruths and launching poison attacks against the Obama administration. Trade groups for the oil and gas industry repeatedly launch attacks that have all the poison and assumption of election-year politics, Salazar said [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:40pm EST

  • Moonlight on Track for Ski Season Despite Bankruptcy

    Moonlight Basin, the Big Sky resort that filed for bankruptcy protection last week, will have sufficient capital to open as scheduled on Dec. 12 and, barring extraordinary events, to operate as normal through the ski season after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Tuesday resolved some initial issues in complex [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:09pm EST

  • Dr. Power: Key Assumptions behind Senator Tester's Forest Jobs and Restoration Act

    What I want to do here is simply outline the conventional wisdom from which Senator Tester appears to be operating. That will sound familiar, and, to many, convincing, but those assumptions are, in fact, highly debatable. In commentaries over the next two months, I will then seek to critically explore [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:26am EST

  • The Pesticide Wars

    If the American Farm Bureau Federation has its way, the issue of whether herbicide spraying over water requires a Clean Water Act permit will be heard by the Supreme Court. A coalition of agricultural groups led by the Federation has petitioned the nation's highest court to reverse an appellate court' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:02am EST

  • Porch Productions Benefit for Film on Foster Care

    Anyone who has had any contact with the foster care system knows that it is, well, in need of help. Missoula-based Porch Productions is currently working on a documentary film in which it follows six Missoula children as they age out of foster care. It's a worthy and important topic,' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:51am EST

  • Protecting America's Public Lands a National Concern

    We can take much inspiration from Ken Burns' film "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" and readily extend its premise to the remainder of America's public lands. Key take-home messages in Burns' film are that threats to America's wildlands never cease and that their protection is brought about through national' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:47am EST

  • When Good Apples Get Spoiled

    HOOD RIVERBill Neal has no problem explaining what the state should do with David Ryan and his juice company. They need to come up here and shut his ass down, Neal said. This has been a problem for 15 years. Ryan, the founder and CEO of Hood River Juice Company, was charged [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:06pm EST

  • Mr. Coffee, Meet Mr. Fist

    For most of us functioning adults, we just can't start the day without that steaming mug of joe. It's not just the caffeine, but it's also the ritual, the comfort of the warm cup between the hands, the jolt of heat and aromatic bitterness with every sip. There's also the [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:32pm EST

  • More Praise for Priest River's Beardmore Block

    The Beardmore Block in Priest River continues its phoenix-like rise from metaphorical ashes in garnering another awardthis time the Grow Smart Award from Idaho Smart Growth. The award language says the Beardmore incorporates historic preservation, downtown revitalization, and sustainable green building practices in an existing town center and illustrates that [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:05pm EST

  • While Big Resorts Struggle, Echo Mountain Booms

    What does Gerald Petitt know about the ski industry that other ski resort owners should learn? In a year when resorts across the country watched their visitor numbers tumble, the Aspen resident who owns tiny Echo Mountain near Idaho Springs saw its numbers rise 30 percent, one of just three ski [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:27pm EST

  • Surprise! The CMA got the awards right this year... for the most part

    Before they are too far into the past, I had a few comments on this year's Country Music Association awards, which were presented earlier this month in Nashville. Entertainer of the Year went to Taylor Swift.  While this young phenom might be just a bit too young and bubbly for my [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:06pm EST

  • Moonlight Bankruptcy: is it Yellowstone Club, or is it Tamarack?

    For U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ralph B. Kirscher, the opening hearing in the Moonlight Basin bankruptcy case, scheduled for this Tuesday in Butte, promises more than a little bit of deja vu: it was just a year ago that some of the same lawyers appeared in the same courtroom to [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:09am EST

  • Bighorn National Forest Resorts to User Fees at Popular Trailhead

    The West Tensleep Trailhead in the Bighorn National Forest ­-- the most popular access to the Cloud Peak Wilderness ­­-- will have a $10 parking fee next summer. I can't fault forest managers for searching for an additional revenue stream after years of funding shortfalls, but this user fee unfairly' [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:35am EST

  • Bighorn National Forest Resorts to User Fees at Popular Trailhead

    The West Tensleep Trailhead in the Bighorn National Forest ­-- the most popular access to the Cloud Peak Wilderness ­­-- will have a $10 parking fee next summer. I can't fault forest managers for searching for an additional revenue stream after years of funding shortfalls, but this user fee unfairly' [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:35am 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

  • 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

    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.  The address airs Saturday on many radio [...]
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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

  • More Praise for Priest River's Beardmore Block

    The Beardmore Block in Priest River continues its phoenix-like rise from metaphorical ashes in garnering another awardthis time the Grow Smart Award from Idaho Smart Growth. The award language says the Beardmore incorporates historic preservation, downtown revitalization, and sustainable green building practices in an existing town center and illustrates that [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:05am 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

  • 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

  • Oregon Cat Dies From Swine Flu

    Oregon is home to the country's first reported fatal case of swine flu in a cat. The cat, a 10-year-old male, died Nov. 7 near Portland. The Oregon State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory examined the dead cat and discovered he carried the H1N1 virus. While this is the third confirmed case [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:21pm EST

  • Sen Tester and His Logging Bill Rack-Up Major Endorsement

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:54am EST

  • Moonlight Basin Files for Bankruptcy Protection

    Moonlight Basin, the troubled Big Sky, Montana ski resort, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, just a day before a foreclosure hearing that could have put the property in the hands of its primary lender, Lehman Bros. Moonlight took a loan of $100 million from Lehman Bros. in [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:15am 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

  • Grizzlies On the Move, Back On 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, 6:47am 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

  • Optimism Cautiously Creeps in for Ski Season

    If you're a ski resort operator, it's hard to be optimistic when the country is suffering the effects of a grueling recession and about one in 10 Americans is jobless. But when snow is dumping in the high country and across the room at the Colorado Convention Center people are' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:02pm EST

  • Intrawest Sells Colorado's Copper Mountain to Park City Company

    Copper Mountain resort, a major ski hill about 75 miles west of Denver, is being sold by troubled ski giant Intrawest to Park City-based Powdr Corp., the owner resorts in Utah, California, Vermont, Oregon and Nevada. The deal is expected to close in December, and both companies say patrons should [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:52pm 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

  • Winter's Coming: Bust Out the Spandex!

    Welcome to my Snow Blog! First off I'd like to give you a quick intro on my skiing background. I grew up in the Gallatin Canyon fifteen miles from the Big Sky Ski Resort. Being raised in Big Sky, outdoor sports became my way of life. There weren't many places [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:56am 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

  • 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

  • Funding for Land Conservation Makes Good Economic Sense

    Many of us will be afield this fall spending time in our favorite hunting and fishing spots. We will be enjoying the tradition of these field sports so important to our lives. But as you head out to the fields, rivers and streams we want you to be aware of [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:34pm EST

  • Montana Wolf Hunt is Over: Quotas Filled Early

    A half-hour after sunset tonight, Montana's first official wolf huntarguably the most controversial hunting season in recent historywill 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

  • Republicans Way Forward is in the West?

    Politicos have been trying to figure out just where the Republican Party plans to get the surge for its resurgence. The Republicans have done their damndest to shed independent and Libertarian voters since 2001, 'and what do they aim to replace them with?' I ask you. Do the Neoconservatives represent [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:00am 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

  • Let's Give The New Mexico Auditor Some Teeth

    So in September, State Auditor Hector Balderas publicly shamed 87 government agencies in New Mexico by releasing to the media a list of agencies that hadn't submitted annual and compliance audits to the state as required by law. It was the first time the auditor publicly released such a list, and' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:56pm EST
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