Archive for April, 2008
by Jamee Greer Candidate forum features Attorney General & Office of Public Instruction, talent show MISSOULA – Following the success of last year’s City Council Candidates Gone Wild, which drew over 150 Missoulians together to hear candidate’s stances on everything from inclusionary zoning to urban fowl, Forward Montana presents the final installments of our primary [...]
by Jamee Greer Members of Students for Economic and Social Justice who participated in last Wednesday’s sit-in are being suspended, although it sounds like for varying lengths of time. At this point, the longest suspension has been five days. Meetings between the students who were charged with disorderly conduct and the UM Administration will continue [...]
by jhwygirl A little over a week ago I wrote about the NY Times story which exposed the who’s-up-whose-ass relationship between the Bush Administration and the media’s so-called military analysts – those retired generals that you see on every major news station telling us that the surge is working, that the troops have enough armor, [...]
by Jamee Greer Last weekend, several members of the student group Students for Economic and Social Justice received letters from University officials that they may be suspended for staging a sit-in in President George Dennison’s office on Wednesday, April 16th. The group has been working with UM Administration for the last two years to make [...]
by Pete Talbot I enjoy the occasional beer or glass of wine. Therefore, my garbage or garage is full of bottles, plus a few pickle and mayonnaise jars. What to do with all this glass? I wrote about the glass dilemma before and commended Bozeman for recycling the stuff. Some comments to that post had [...]
by jhwygirl NewWest recently published a piece, Understanding the Basics of Water Law in Montana, which reminded me of a few thoughts I had been mulling on that topic (for some time), and how it relates to sprawl and unregulated growth and development in Montana. Also helping it along was a friend who contacted me [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Sure, you could say Lee Newspapers’ article this morning about the four Democratic candidates for state school superintendent was journalism lite, but as the editor’s note mentioned, there’s more to come. Thank goodness. I came away from Charles S. Johnson’s piece with a lot of questions, chiefly because all the candidates–Representative Holly [...]
by jhwygirl King George says:“What we learned from the 1960s is we learned every action has to have a consequence. If it doesn’t, it had no moral value, either.” Your actions are despicable. That is how you guide the youths under your charge? That is the example you set for civil discourse? So, King George [...]
by Jason Wiener The people who have been working for months to convert the historic Lincoln School into a community center need your help — finishing off bottles of wine, cases of beer and platters of hors d’oeuvre. From 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, The Loft at 119 W. Main St. in [...]
by jhwygirl Scientists believe they have the answer to brain farts. Yeah, yeah – go ahead…
by jhwygirl This is a good Friday-afternoon-at-the-office project. The Missoula Water Quality District, MT DEQ and others are sponsoring a free electronics recycling Saturday at the Missoula Fairgrounds, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. A lot of that e-waste is pretty toxic – and this is a great opportunity to keep it out of landfills. First [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Yesterday the Board of Pharmacy ruled the Legislature should decide whether or not Montana’s pharmacists will follow a single ethical and professional standard. The Montana Board of Pharmacy took no action Wednesday after hearing comment on the issue of pharmacists who refuse to dispense contraceptives because of religious beliefs. Board member Mark [...]
by jhwygirl See it for yourself. Notice the title. VA email – February 13, 2008 Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) office said statistics provided earlier this year by the VA showed that 790 veterans under VA care attempted suicide in 2007. 790? Talk about fuzzy math. 790 does not equal 12,000. Unless your a tool of [...]
by Jay Stevens I just saw this report in the Montana Kaimin, where three U of MT College Republicans are challenging Democratically-held House seats in Missoula. Yeah, good luck with that. Now, first of all, I’m thrilled that young people are this engaged with the political process that they want to join in the fray. [...]
by Pete Talbot Erik Iverson, Rep. Denny Rehberg’s hatchet man and chairman of Montana’s Republican Party, has a guest column in today’s Missoulian. In Montana, there probably isn’t a more divisive subject than guns and Iverson uses this wedge issue to attack Barack Obama. ” … Obama has shown that if elected president he will [...]
by Pete Talbot It takes a professional writer with some personal experience with Bill Nooney to really do justice to the representative from H.D. 100. Bill Vaughn over at Dark Acres gives an excellent synopsis of Nooney’s infamous first term in the Montana House of Representatives. My only complaint with the piece is this line: [...]
by Pete Talbot Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has a seductive message: get the U.S. out of Iraq, get the government out of personal lives, and put the country on a sound financial footing. The words “liberty” and “freedom” are often invoked in his stump speech. Paul, also referred to as the “Doctor” or “Dr. [...]
by jhwygirl An extremely worthy cause, which has been brought to my attention by (ah-hem) Dave Budge. Which goes to show that I do agree with conservatives on some things. Welcome Home Montana is the second of such public agreements. Budge has been involved in helping organize a group of local businesses with the goal [...]
by Pete Talbot Today, I’m optimistic about our Earth. There was a large crowd at the Earth Day festivities in Missoula on Sunday, despite the Arctic-like weather. There was music and info tables and hemp products and hybrid cars and local food sources and green building materials … and little kids and college-age kids mingling [...]
by jhwygirl A Pew Institute survey, results released March 12th, shows that American’s awareness in the number of American military casualties in Iraq is slipping. The number of American military deaths, as of Sunday evening, is 4039. The total number of coalition deaths is 4348. The number of American military deaths on August 7th, 8 [...]
by jhwygirl Wulfgar!, under his Deeply Stupid category, takes local attorney and candidate for HD 96 Steve Eschenbacher to task for his poor attorney-speak (“absolutely positively probably”) and other conspiracy theories. Eshenbacher is the blogger behind Rabid Insanity, something he has not hidden. Makes me wonder what Eschenbacher thinks of my post below, on our [...]
by jhwygirl A New York Times article released yesterday but dated today – much of which was the result of having to sue the Defense Department to gain access to 8,000 pages of email messages, transcripts and records – goes into gory, disgusting detail of the relationship between the Pentagon, the Bush Administration and most [...]
by jhwygirl Seems the Good Governor Brian found time to file both his state and federal returns while running the state, running a re-election campaign and meeting with two presidential candidates. All Roy Brown did was file his extensions. Doesn’t sound very “get ‘er done” to me.
by jhwygirl Gov. Brian Schweitzer has promised there will be no statewide increase in property taxes as a result of the reappraisal. The details of that plan have not been released. Department of Revenue Director Dan Bucks says that “so far the agency has found no evidence prices are dropping on a widespread basis.” All [...]
by Jay Stevens Whoa. Look, I know the Big Dipper is the awesome. But this is ridiculous: When police arrived early Thursday morning, they found shards of glass in the parking lot and scattered throughout the store’s interior. Investigators also found a rock on the floor beside a drop of ice cream, and noticed that [...]
by jhwygirl That might be just a tad bit of an overstatement, but not by much. The draft Environmental Impact Statement for the long awaited (and still to be longer) proposed improvements for Russell and South 3rd St. West (from Russell to Reserve) is being unveiled at a public meeting Wednesday, April 16th. The meeting [...]
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