payday lenders beware; coming to a sidewalk near you…

February 14, 2009 in Montana

by problembear let’s just make it a date for around may 2010, shall we?   since it’s valentine’s day i want to be sure and let you know that we want to get close to your business with our signs and talk to a few folks….hope you won’t mind….i will try and stay upwind….so you [...]

Iraq War claims another Montanan

February 14, 2009 in Iraq, Missoula, Montana, violence, War

by Pete Talbot 4&20 offers its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Lt. Col. Garnet “Gary” Derby. He was from Whitehall but listed Missoula as his home. He was killed in Iraq on Monday, along with three other soldiers and an interpreter, in a roadside bombing. Lt. Col. Derby is the 21st Montana [...]

People seem to lack faith in today’s youth

February 14, 2009 in Forward Montana, Media, Montana

by Ana J. Beard  After receiving a vague e-mail today from a reporter from the Independent, about the school board meeting I attended and spoke at on Feb. 10, I called him, as he had requested. Call me naive but for some reason it didn’t occur to me that I was about to get interviewed. First [...]

Various & Sundry for the Weekend

February 14, 2009 in Montana

by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. Plenty of people getting into the legislative spirit this week. Great to see! There’s Wulfgar!’s takedown of Sen. Dan McGee’s SB46; there’s Roscoe, over at Left in the West giving some progressive “love” to SB318; and Supermontanareporter John S. Adams’ attempts to answer an interesting question from [...]