Archive for December, 2009
by Ana J. Beard On Saturday Dec. 26, 2009 David James DelSignore hit four girls walking down Highway 200, killing two (Ashlee Patenaude, 14 years old, and Taylor Cearley, 15), and injuring the others. This tragic accident was due to DelSignore’s poor decision to drive home drunk. Because of this, the two surviving girls, all of their families, [...]
by jhwygirl …or was it more a chance to cater to the Faux News crowd? Now cities and towns across the state are now wondering about some of their stimulus funds – stimulus funds granted via HB645…stimulus funds approved by the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Brian Schweitzer himself….a governor who vetoed [...]
by jhwygirl Let’s see the legislature avoid stricter DUI laws now. Is this state still going to facilitate the Montana drinking culture, or have we had enough yet? I was looking on the jail roster for Missoula’s detention center. I quit counting at fourteen the number of offenders incarcerated on their fourth DUI. Fourth? Don’t [...]
by jhwygirl The world runs on software. That’s not going to change. Coal mines eventually run out of coal. RightNow currently employs 450 in Bozeman and will be hiring an addition 100 more people in Montana, at least 60 of them for the Bozeman area. Most of those jobs require a 4-year college degree, and [...]
by JC Ok. Now that I’ve stirred the pot here by posting Baucus’ video, let me post up the transcript of his words and video, from CSPAN, and let them speak for themselves. Read his words, not in the context of how he sounded saying them (which is what the conservablogs are doing), but in [...]
by JC Days like this you wish you weren’t a Montanan. Found this top o’ the Drudge Report today: And it’s plastered all over the conservablogs today. Guess the Melodee Hanes story was just a warm up.
by jhwygirl Wishing everyone the very best. Hope you’re all warm and toasty.
by jhwygirl Conrad Burns?
by jhwygirl Ok – I’ve probably heard it a half dozen times the last couple days lately, and the last time I just turned my head and walked away. “Oh, of course it’s the union’s fault. You know it,” as if I did. I left, but wanted to walk back and say “So the 47 [...]
by jhwygirl Montanan’s got a give-me in the bill, just like Nebraska. Read it at hummingbirdminds.
by jhwygirl Governor Schweitzer will be in town tomorrow, 11 a.m to 1 p.m. at the University Theater to discuss the impact of the Smurfit-Stone plant closure. They like to get a count before hand, so try and RSVP to Debbie Evans at debbie@maedc.org. This was announced pretty late, I have to say – a [...]
by jhwygirl Maybe you have room in your wallet to grab an extra item or two? Reporter Keila Szpaller points out in this comment that the Missoulian has a column dedicated to helping bring Christmas and the holidays to locals who might not be able to do so for themselves or their own loved ones. [...]
by jhwygirl The Otter Creek leases were approved today on a 4-1 vote, with Denise Juneau, State Superintendent of Public Instruction the lone dissent vote. Denise Juneau is a visionary for the land and trust stewardship in Montana. Many people have nothing but thanks for her today after her dissent. Big Sky High School students, [...]
by jhwygirl First day of winter, it is – and longest day of the year. With winter formally upon us, and the holidays bearing down, its easy to forget that while this time of the year puts us indoors more than usual, there are people out there who eat and sleep and live outside, lacking [...]
by jhwygirl That’s really what they’re saying when they they send a letter to the Land Board telling them to support leasing the Otter Creek tracts. As Wally McRae, a rancher who will be on the receiving end of such eminent domain condemnation proceedings has said: “If you vote in favor of leasing the Otter [...]
by jhwygirl Left in the West’s Yellowstone Kelly has a post up predicting tomorrow’s state Land Board decision regarding the leasing of the Otter Creek coal leases in eastern Montana. I won’t be so bold as to make a prediction – and even if I were, it wouldn’t be the 4-1 supposition that Yellowstone Kelly [...]
by jhwygirl Update: I have turned off comments to this post. Please consider this an open thread. I’m a volcano/Yellowstone/earthquake/geology geek. Geek may be the wrong word, but whatever. This is the coolest thing. Then there’s the video 3-D imagery showing the plume, which can be found here. Wild stuff. Seem like someone has finally [...]
by jhwygirl Your Friday smile: The Missoulian’s Tom Bauer captures that guy. In a dress.
(jhwygirl) Public comment for the proposed leasing of the state’s Otter Creek coal closes soon. A public hearing, continued from last month, is next Monday. I question our state’s commitment to green energy. You don’t pull a billion tons of coal out of the ground to look at it. Coal is filthy. Someone’s burning it [...]
by Pete Talbot The sad news out of Frenchtown has everyone speculating on the cause of the Smurfit-Stone closure. Here are some of the reasons given by misinformed wags: – It was those damned environmentalists. – It was the greedy labor unions. – It was the potential rollback of “black liquor” tax credits. Let’s tackle [...]
by jhwygirl Smurfit-Stone closes. Saw it on the front page of the Montana Standard. Not that it wasn’t elsewhere, or aptly covered locally – but it’s that big, that it’s front-page on the Butte paper. 417 families. 417 households. How many others that bought and sold into that mill? Nothing to say that hasn’t been [...]
by jhwygirl Missoula County Commissioners were on the defense again today with an editorial in the Missoulian, titled “Voter accessibility will still be better than ever in Montana”. In it, they lay out much what has been written or discussed openly: The cost savings of reducing the number of judges and the costly automark machines [...]
by jhwygirl Sounds like the county is on the defensive over its plan to consolidate precincts and close polling stations, with The Indy first on the story. KPAX has covered it too, and The Missoulian has hit it twice, here and here. For some time, the county has planned to consolidate precincts. That’s pretty uncontroversial [...]
by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. I’m looking for craft shows around the area – and by area I mean Kalispell, Helena, Bozeman, Butte, Deerlodge, Billings, Great Falls. Know any? Let me know below. (Thanks.) Goddess knows there are plenty of people upset about the County’s plan proposal to consolidate precincts and close [...]
by jhwygirl Missoula County Commissioners are taking comments regarding their proposal to consolidate a number of precincts along with reducing a number of polling stations throughout the county. Here is a link to the spreadsheet summarizing the proposal, along with statistics on the number of voters affected. I’m one of a pretty darn large number [...]
by Pete Talbot Downtown parking is mundane to many, unless you happen to work, shop and visit downtown Missoula. It’s a hot topic right now, over at Missoulagov.listserve (subscribe or visit the archives). The short version: apparently the downtown business improvement district and, I assume, the parking commission are considering parking kiosks (one or two [...]
by jhwygirl So very rare such a huge concession from Uncle Sam – and today, Blackfeet tribal member and lead plaintiff Eloise Cobell won her 13-year battle to collect damages from the U.S. government for mismanagement of the lands that were to be held in trust for the tribes. Big enough that the New York [...]
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