Archive for July, 2008
by jhwygirl First Friday – beloved by Missoulians and visitors alike for its free beverage and munchies and fabulous art – will include a special exhibit upstairs at 515 S Higgins. It begins at 5 p.m. The show will feature portraits, in paint and photo, of Poverello Center clients and residents. All exhibits are by [...]
by Jay Stevens With the Hell’s Angels coming to town tomorrow – and some already here! – it’s time to bunker up out of pepper spray range. What better way to spend your days watching…motorcycle flicks? Here’s my short list of bike movies: The Wild One. A no-brainer. The movie classic starring Marlon Brando as [...]
by jhwygirl USFS and BLM flags are flying at half-staff for two firefighters killed on the Panther Fire, in northwestern California. One firefighter – 18-year old Andrew Palmer – was killed when a snag fell on him. Andrew was on his first fire. The other firefighter, 49-year old Daniel Packer, Chief of East Pierce County [...]
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by jhwygirl NewWest’s Rob Struckman posted a piece this afternoon, based on some information that has come his way, that Smurfit-Stone is mulling some tough decisions. He’s spot-on with all of it – their woes over pulp have been widely known for some time. Sincerely troubling news. Not only does Smurfit employ well over 400 [...]
by jhwygirl It’s been a while since I last checked on local Missoula foreclosures, and given The Missoulian’s glass-half-full take on the local real estate market, published last Saturday, I went looking into that deep dark secret place that so many don’t want to address. Including The Missoulian. What? Not one mention of the foreclosures [...]
by jhwygirl That from the San Francisco Business Times. Yep, blame that increasing list of failed banks on blogs. Who knew we had so much power? Quick, someone tell George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Denny Rehberg, Brian Schweitzer, Max Baucus…. According to that San Francisco Business Journal story linked to above, historically only 13% [...]
by jhwygirl A recent court case in Utah’s Supreme Court found that access to the state’s navigable rivers did, indeed, allow access not only to the water, but to the streambed underneath. Yep – that one went all the way to the Supreme Court, folks. Private property owners made the case that floaters coming through [...]
by jhwygirl Well DARN! Those crickets sure were loud last night. chirp…chirp…chirp…. I can think of a few who might like this one: Codex Sinaiticus went up Thursday and has already had something like 24,000,000 hits. It is a scanned version of the oldest bible in the world. Who hasn’t wanted to shoot their lawn [...]
by jhwygirl Hey there BS Cairn. Good morning. Nice to meet you. I didn’t mentioned our “I-sleep-on-my-couch” Rehberg’s HR 6566, otherwise known as the American Energy Act of 2008, because it wasn’t up on his website when I wrote the original piece. How many hours did it take him to add it, once the alert [...]
by jhwygirl Yesterday, in a piece criticizing Rehberg, I blogged about Baucus’ Energy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 2008, but I missed one tidbit that we’ve blogged about here in the past. Near the end of the bill, I found this: Amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (SRS) to [...]
by jhwygirl The Jackson Hole News and Guide gives us the details on Schweitzer’s letter to the USDA, which criticizes Wyoming’s practice of operating elk feedgrounds and Bridger-Teton National Forest’s recent approval of renewing state leases on the National Forest. “Despite long-standing acknowledgement of the problem, it now appears that Wyoming Game and Fish and [...]
by jhwygirl Sent to me by an astute reader, Governor Schweitzer fired off a letter on Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, criticizing Wyoming’s elk feedgrounds, which many say are a breeding ground for brucellosis. Bravo! This was one of the developments out of Tuesdays Board of Livestock meeting – the other being the [...]
by jhwygirl Standing in front of a solar panel, Montana’s congressman, Representative “I-sleep-on-my-couch” Rehberg announced his plan for America’s Energy Independence. Rehberg has proudly supporting 7 bills: HR 3089 which builds more oil refineries and “making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope and America’s Deep-Sea Energy Reserves”; HR [...]
by jhwygirl The Wild West Institute’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the USFS for communications between the USFS and Plum Creek Timber for “any and all communications between the US Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Company regarding forest-road agreements, including discussions as they relate to real estate development,” is apparently in-transit, awaiting [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Even the best campaign advertising doesn’t get much better than this: “I wondered what kind of help they would need, and when I got over to the campsite I couldn’t believe it,” [Betsy] Hands said. “The fire had traveled along this root system and there was this large black area that was [...]
by jhwygirl Saying brucellosis “does not belong in our future,” Suzanne Lewis, the superintendent of Yellow-stone National Park, pledged Monday to work with Montana’s Board of Livestock to eradicate the disease. That, from today’s Billings Gazette. …eradicate the disease”? From Yellowstone? While the Bridger-Teton National Forest, to the south, is approving new leases on Wyoming [...]
by jhwygirl Are you lonely??? Don’t like working on your own? Hate making decisions? Than call a MEETING!!! You can… SEE people DRAW flowcharts FEEL important FORM subcommittees IMPRESS your colleagues MAKE meaningless recommendations ALL ON COMPANY TIME!!!! MEETINGS… The practical alternative to work.
by jhwygirl Don’t forget Jay’s ActBlue page for the battleground Montana House Seats. Deadline is tomorrow, folks. We blogged this one here. Well, I finally got after it – and threw some cash out there. Not much, but every bit helps. My favs: Jill Cohenour (HD-78 ) ;-) Jennifer Pomnichowski (HD-63);-) Jim Elliot (HD-13) ;-) [...]
by jhwygirl First things first: Watch out for spontaneously combusting flowerpots. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (wonder if Al Gore is on it?) has accepted a plan to allow web domain users to put anything that they damned well please at the end of a web address. Instead of [...]
by jhwygirl Late Friday, right here in Missoula, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy granted an injunction requested by Earthjustice and 11 other environmental groups. While those groups celebrated, Idaho and other state officials weren’t so happy. Neither was the USFWS. Ed Bangs, of the USFWS “For an injunction, you have to show irreparable harm,” Bangs [...]
by jhwygirl Only 9 days since the Mt. Sentinel fire. It’s amazing how fast these things move. I had only driven by it about an hour before and I hadn’t seen a thing. Hopefully, the two old roads up there will serve as a break so that firefighters get this thing out by tonight. It [...]
by jhwygirl Blacksmith Brewing is coming to Stevensville, locating itself over on the east side of town near the Cenex. From what I’m told, they hope to open by the end of the month. Neighbors near and far – that would include me too – are very excited. They’ve got some nice pics of their [...]
by jhwygirl Who knew the Hip Strip was so highbrow? Oh yeah – “own a piece of Missoula’s history in the heart of our vibrant downtown” the Lambros MLS notes: Unit 2, one of the turetted units that’s been renovated, is currently being offered at $499,500, while you can opt to pick it up without [...]
by jhwygirl This comes to us via Electric City Weblog. The Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) was denied access to City of Great Falls records pertaining to the possibly soon-to-be-ill-fated coal-fired Highwood Generation Plant being constructed for Southern Electric Generation and Transmission. The feasibility study is apparently problematic for the city – City Attorney Gliko [...]
by jhwygirl State veterinarian Dr. Martin Zaluski is nearing completion of the testing of adjacent herds to the infected cow that cost Montana its brucellosis-free status and is encouraged by the results. So far, none have tested positive. He’s also had this to say: “All of the testing so far has focused on ruling out [...]
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