they got branded and rode out of town….

April 13, 2011 in Montana

by problembear all those tough talking republican legislators got their bills branded with a big @brianschweitzer veto today and high-tailed it out of town.  all that hate and rough talk about gays- down the tubes. all those plans to poison our streams with arsenic heap leach mines again – down in flames, all those big [...]

Food for Thought: House Progressive Caucus Releases “People’s Budget”

April 13, 2011 in Barack Obama, Great Budget Battles of 2011, Progressives

By JC With President Obama’s speech on the budget and how to reduce the federal deficit hitting the headlines today, I thought I’d offer up a morsel of what the left has been thinking about in terms of deficit reduction and budgeting for people to consider as they ponder President Obama’s plan, and the right’s [...]

And now for something completely different

April 13, 2011 in Humor, Missoula, Montana, Transportation

by Pete Talbot (The Montana lefty blogosphere has been cranking out some great stuff, IMHO, on state and national budgets, and on eminent domain; and offering up some honest critiques of Montana Legislators and U.S. Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, to name but a few of the worthy posts of late. [...]