Archive for June, 2009
by Pete Talbot Following on the heels of a New Yorker article I read on global warming, I saw that Rep. Denny Rehberg joined just about every Republican in the U.S House to vote against the modest cap-and-trade, energy and environment bill. I’m guessing Denny doesn’t read the New Yorker. He’d rather get his info [...]
by jhwygirl Boy, I gotta say, I’m a little bummed that Missoulians haven’t been able to push 1,000 New Gardens, Missoula to the top vote getter at Idea Blob…. Voting ends at 10 p.m. tonight folks – so if you’ve been putting it off or whatever, time is a wastin’ (as I say sometimes), so [...]
by jhwygirl A week ago I blogged about some of the awards awarded to local Montana print journalists by the Montana Newspaper Association. I didn’t know it (because the MNA doesn’t seem too interested in putting a full listing up on its website), but there were more. The Missoula Independent took home four awards at [...]
by jhwygirl With nary an official announcement, I, too, noticed Mike Mansfield’s name at the bottom of one of my more recent emailings from Democratic congressional candidate Tyler Gernant – as did Missoulian reporter Chelsi Moy. She was perplexed – I was pleasantly surprised. Having the nephew of Montana’s former Senator Mike Mansfield heading up [...]
by jhwygirl Once it’s out there, it’s out there. Kinda hard to remove it.
by jhwygirl If you watched the video my last post, you found out that what birthed 1,000 New Gardens, Missoula was a dinner meeting between Max Smith, a UM student and Geoff Badenoch (Missoula’s perennial board member of just about everything) where the topic of discussion was preservation of agricultural lands out in the county. [...]
by jhwygirl Arriving to my inbox on Thursday was information on a new, unknown-to-me project in Missoula called “1,000 New Gardens, Missoula“. As I watched the video that a link (included in the email), I think I absolutely fell in love! There are so many good things about this project – the list that bounces [...]
by problembear George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it. Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that’s what happened just gotta quit this cold turkey or i won’t ever be able to quit….this blogging is a serious drug, man….it can be too satisfying and i’ve [...]
by problembear Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia, chair of the us commerce committee, seems to understand the real issue with health care: “To me, there is nothing that ultimately makes more difference to Americans than health care. “People often talk about 45 million uninsured Americans, but rarely mention the 25 million Americans who are [...]
passed along by problembear: (sure is nice to have a president who not only listens to folks who need help but to provide a site telling their stories) by the way….if you have a health care story to share with us please feel free to do so…. Marty Austin, TX I have a [...]
by jhwygirl About a month ago, Rep. Joel Boniek (R-Livingston) brought Montana into nationwide attention when he attended a town hall-style meeting hosted by FoxNews on state’s rights. He was there – along with gun lobbyist and friend Gary Marbut, of the Montana Shooting Sports Association – to brag about HD228 which was signed into [...]
by jhwygirl For those of you who haven’t heard, Dick Cheney’s gotten an advance to write a biography. Who better to hear it from than someone in Wyoming? Michael Shay, of Wyoming’s premier progressive blog hummingbirds, has the news. I love his suggested titles. Too funny.
by jhwygirl Just in case you didn’t get this on Bob Jeffe’s listserve, Rocky Sehnert, former planner for both Missoula County Office of Planning & Grants and the Ravalli County Planning Department, wrote a letter. I’ll take out his email address because of the public nature of this blog, but here is the rest, in [...]
by problembear is that wily max baucus really after bipartisianship with those no good republicants on health care reform? or is he just setting a screen for barry to go hard to the basket?…..maybe there is hope of getting a decent public option in this bill after all. jay over at litw says it better [...]
by jhwygirl I’m actually going to pull this directly out of comments on my recent post titled Self-Insured Employee Health Care is a Disaster-in-Waiting. Ward 2′s Pam Walzer – who sits on a city/employee committee that regularly discusses health care insurance policy issues – has written a clarification to my previous post. I want to [...]
by jhwygirl Aww, what the hay, right? I’ll go live here when they start public comment. I expect this will be a long meeting, and probably with little council discussion with this meeting with regards to the zoning rewrite (unless they’re all willing to go home after midnight – if they’re luck!). That means most [...]
by problembear john adams posted something very interesting a few days ago. of course, i suspected as much. if it is what you want matt, i wish you well. you have worked hard to earn it. i differ with you on nuances of some matters regarding health reform and max baucus, but believe you could do [...]
by jhwygirl Thought I’d post this – I know there are people who have been wondering if there would be a national rally in Washington D.C. It’s short notice, I know. First I heard (sorry). 1payer.net is calling for The Great American Sickout, a National Rally for Health Care For All Now for Thursday, June [...]
by jhwygirl The Montana Newspaper Association gave out its awards last night – and here’s a list of those north of the line on the various categories. No direct link to the list, yet, on the MWA site, so this is pieced together from the various state newspapers. The Great Falls Tribune raked in 24 [...]
by jhwygirl Maher nailed it last week when he openly criticized Obama for not doing more to push forward a public option. This week he takes on Democrats. It starts at the 2 minute mark: “We have met the enemy and he is us” Pogo Possum
by problembear is it still Senator William A. Clark?, copper king of Butte- a man so crooked and corrupt that mark twain actually wrote this: “He is said to have bought legislatures and judges as other men buy food and raiment. By his example he has so excused and so sweetened corruption that in Montana [...]
by Pete Talbot I read the obit of a distant acquaintance in today’s Missoulian. She was six months younger than me. Cancer took her way too early, at 54-years-old. I know Marcia Trotter’s sisters and brother better than I knew Marcia. It’s a large, well-known Missoula Family. It’s sad news but the final line in [...]
by Pete Talbot Rep. Rehberg lists funding for the Watson’s Children Shelter in Missoula as one of his accomplishments. Problem is he voted against the appropriation. Rehberg said “nay” on HB HR 2847, but the bill still passed. The shelter should reap $500,000 to expand its much needed facilities. Denny’s taking credit, though: “The Watson’s Children Shelter fills [...]
by jhwygirl King George is at it again – creating a new Vice President administrative position while hiking tuition and laying off and drastically reducing hours on 24 of the lowest wage earners in the university system. Somewhere I hear blueprints being rolled out onto a heavy antique oak table as a golf course fades [...]
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