Help Me Understand

April 5, 2010 in Missoula, Montana

by jhwygirl How does allowing discrimination against a particular group of individuals help their freedom? How does it impinge yours? What kind of religion actually promotes hate? Isn’t God and religion about love? How does a government and its citizens standing up against discrimination discriminate upon someone’s religion?: One more – What I want to [...]

Finance Reform Moves to Senate Agriculture

April 5, 2010 in Economy & Business, Max Baucus, Montana

by jhwygirl Was just doing some checking on where finance reform is, given that it was just about 2 weeks ago when the Senate Finance committee voted to move the thing forward. Come to find that Senate Agriculture has been tasked with hammering out something on derivatives, given it reached a bit of an impasse [...]

Tyler Gernant in Hamilton Tuesday, Stevensville on Thursday

April 5, 2010 in 2010 Election, Democrats, Montana, Tyler Gernant

by jhwygirl Tyler Gernant, Democratic candidate for Montana’s lone congressional seat, will be attending two candidate forums this week in Ravalli County. Both events are sponsored by the Bitterroot Valley Chamber of Commerce and will include questions from a media guest panel. Tomorrow’s forum is at the Hamilton Middle School, 209 S. Fifth St., from [...]

My third party experience

April 5, 2010 in Democrats, Missoula County Democrats, Missoula County Republicans, Montana, Montana Democrats, Montana Republicans, Politics, Republicans

by Pete Talbot No breaking news here. This is a short story about Missoula in the ’90s and an alternative party. It was called the New Party and I was a member. Lately, there has been a lot of venting, some with good reason, over Democratic disappointments: from Obama to Baucus to Tester to Schweitzer. [...]