Archive for April, 2009
by jhwygirl A NYTimes article, Big Sky State makes play to be a CO2 importer reminds us of another environmental disaster-in-waiting SB498 sits awaiting signature from Governor Schweitzer. Yeah! Let’s take Canada’s carbon dioxide! /snark Ugh. Let’s hope the Governor goes “veto” on this one. With recent EPA declarations regarding the regulation of CO2 – [...]
by Pete Talbot This will make Rob Natelson happy. In February, over at Electric City Weblog, Prof. Natelson said there was just too much native news in Montana’s newspapers (as opposed to right-wing, white-guy news). Ms. Rave is leaving the Lee Enterprises newspaper chain (papers in Missoula, Billings, Helena, Butte and Hamilton) to write a [...]
by jhwygirl The Helena IR, yesterday, called it the sesson’s “Trojan Horse” and Lord knows I’ve ranted about this one numerous times already. So has Politics, Peaks, and Valley, which took a scathing swipe at both HB575 and its author, Democrat Representative Bill McChesney, of Billings. This bill saw opposition in committee and impassioned debate [...]
by jhwygirl Reacts. That’s pretty fast, no? I sympathize for her.
by jhwygirl I think the county fairgrounds should be relocated and rebuilt with the historic buildings down by Fort Missoula and make that whole area a combination park and historic center and activity/expo center. Fort Missoula is the biggest bestest asset the county has – and it speaks to what Missoula and Montana and the [...]
by jhwygirl I’ve yet to write about Ezra Klein’s visit to Missoula last week to speak on health care (or my meeting with Wulfgar! – I don’t know which was a bigger event!), but one thing that Ezra spoke of was our senator’s important – very important – roll in instituting some sort of health [...]
by problembear when colin powell defected from the republican party and endorsed obama for president over john mccain last fall you could see that moderate reasonable republicans were getting fed up with the right wing nut leanings of the republican party leadership…today with specter’s defection i can’t help wonder if this is just the [...]
by Pete Talbot It started as a rumor but was confirmed by the Missoulian. Smurfit-Stone will continue its 10-day shutdown for another 30 days — to June 1. That’s 280 people out of work in the Missoula area, for at least a month. Add that to what could be 369 Plum Creek layoffs (Ksanka mill [...]
by jhwygirl The Banality of Bush White House Evil.
by jhwygirl Take the test. I scored 315.
by jhwygirl Flathead Beacon is reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be in Helena on Sunday, 10 a.m., for a major announcement. Sen. Tester and the Good Gov will be joining him. This past Wednesday, Tester’s office announced $33.2 million in funding for national park sites around Montana – including a nice [...]
by jhwygirl Alternate title: How Dangerous is the Montana GOP? Answer: Very I don’t know how much people have heard or read about Wednesday’s vote on HR3 (I ever-so-briefly mentioned it here), but as a result of the party-line 50-50 vote, Democrats are receiving nasty emails and death threats for their “no” vote. The bill [...]
by jhwygirl I don’t think Montana House and Senate Democrats should consider, in seeking compromise or cooperation, trading Healthy Montana Kids funding for stupid stuff like SB505 which would create special rules for coal bed methane water, and exempt it from normal permitting procedures, ignoring senior water rights. SB94 is another one that shouldn’t be [...]
by jhwygirl Will the legislature meet its constitutionally imposed 90 day deadline to get the budget done? Today’s Missoulian story on that subject is basically a rehashed story a’la 2007 – no fault of their own…I think we expect the legislators in Helena to kick things into a second session. Now, rumors have been circulating [...]
by jhwygirl Wednesday night in Missoula, all good smart progressives will be at The Badlander to hear Ezra Klein, associate editor of The American Prospect, former blogging companion to Left in the West’s Matt Singer and one of the important voices of the progressive movement speak. Ezra Klein!? Like…WOW! I remember seeing him in “the [...]
by problembear those zany missoulians are at it again with their fist fight over whether the police and sheriff’s departments are ignoring a citizen’s initiative to make prosecution of small pot possession a low priority. i don’t actually have a selfish reason to join in the fray. i contracted whooping cough and bronchitis as a kid [...]
by jhwygirl Unbelievable the lives SB425 has – this thing was stalled in House FWP since the 8th of April – a blast out to the House floor attempt was made on Tuesday and failed – and a second blast was made today, which was successful. Unbelievable. Button Valley Bugle has really taken the lead [...]
by Pete Talbot (As usual, jhwygirl beat me to the punch here. I have some additional links and comments, though, on the petition drive.) Please, before signing the anonymous petition that’s spreading fear and misinformation about Missoula’s zoning rewrite, get the facts. Here is an information sheet from the Office of Planning and Grants. Here’s [...]
by Bob Gentry This piece is cross-posted from Left in the West. We’re happy to have it. – j-girl In response to a 5 year old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU, today the US Department of Justice released four memos generated during the Bush years by US DOJ Office of Legal [...]
by Pete Talbot Not really. But Ward 3 Councilman Bob Jaffe employed his wry wit to kick off a serious discussion of Missoula’s marijuana laws. “This morning we started the day at 8:00 am with alcohol and marijuana. First we approved the purchase of a bunch of field sobriety kits, motorcycle and in-car video camera [...]
by Pete Talbot “Ripped from today’s headlines,” as they like to say on those television teases for Law and Order. I was cruising Left in the West when one of the ads on its home page caught my attention. I always thought I was immune to website advertising but I guess those ads really do [...]
by jhwygirl SB505 and HB575 are both bad water bills that tromp on the property rights of senior water right holders. HB575 had its second reading on the Senate floor today, and unfortunately, after a prolonged and impassioned debate – and one defeated amendment – was approved with a 30 – 20 vote. Read that [...]
by problembear the “t” party is being touted as a huge success by the wealthy right wing organizers who are hoping to avoid complete banishment to a permanent state of irrelevance in the changes sweeping accross america. these changes endanger the wealthy who have been pampered and allowed to ransack our country with impuinity for [...]
by jhwygirl HB2, the general appropriations bill, is back on the House floor for vote Thursday. Will the evenly split House concur the amendments added in the Senate – including the cutting of CHIP by 15,000 kids? House Democrats, headed up by Speaker Bob Bergren of Havre, have promised to reject the amendments, so tomorrow’s [...]
by jhwygirl Via Councilman Bob Jaffe’s listserve, a letter from Roger Millar, Director of the Office of Planning & Grants, to City Council: A concerned citizen provided us with a copy of a petition being circulated in the community by an anonymous group to protest the proposed new zoning code. The flyer that accompanies these [...]
by jhwygirl I read this, and I can only hope that Governor Schweitzer was misquoted…because, certainly, we can do both protect the environment (and comply with Montana Constitutional requirements) while generating revenues off of state land. Right? Maybe we should all head up to Helena one day to toss some coal fly ash around.
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