Big Push on Eminent Domain Bill HB198

April 11, 2011 in 2011 Legislative session, Brian Schweitzer, Montana, Montana politics, Politics, Private Property Rights

by jhwygirl The Senate Energy & Telecommunications tied 6-6 today in committee on HB198, and then subsequently voted to table the bill, effectively killing it. Senate Legislative Rules allow for the committee to reconsider its votes providing the committee has not yet reported to the Secretary of the Senate. Which is the likely explanation for [...]

On the Brink…

April 11, 2011 in Montana

Guest post by Stacey Anderson, Public Affairs Director of Planned Parenthood of Montana Will Montana be brought to the brink of a shutdown like the federal government over women’s healthcare? That is the $6.9 million dollar question for us to consider. Montana’s Republican leaders have waged an all-out assault on women’s access to healthcare this [...]

Sen. Tester Guts ESA; Attaches Policy Rider Delisting Wolves to Budget Bill

April 11, 2011 in Editorial Commentary, Great Budget Battles of 2011, Jon Tester, Wildlife

By JC Jhwygirl asks the correct question over at Left in the West: “Congress should be the decision maker? Not science?” in response to Rob Kailey’s statement in his diary “Donald Molloy Maintains Judicial Integrity” yesterday: “For the record, this judgment goes beyond a simple defense of wolves in the Northern Rockies. This was a [...]

Privatizing Montana, Again

April 11, 2011 in 2011 Legislative session, Montana, Private Property Rights

by jhwygirl Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Click on it and you’ll get a nice full-size version of it. It’s astounding, really, the politicians of both sides of the aisle lining up to hand over private property rights to corporations and private interests large and small. And foreign, at that! Tonbridge, a [...]