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What is reason for name-calling?

Russell Crowder | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 6 months AGO
by Russell Crowder
| May 29, 2014 9:00 PM

Is Republican state Sen. Bruce Tutvedt’s declaration of war, “for the soul of the Republican Party in Montana” the reason he calls Republican Speaker of the House Mark Blasdel and Republican legislative candidates Ronalee Skees and Mike Hebert, “extremists and anarchists”? Real Republican’s want to know!

Russell Crowder, Marion

ARTICLES BY RUSSELL CROWDER

September 16, 2010 11 p.m.

Why planning is a 'bad word'

Over the past several years in Flathead County, this failed and expensive experiment we call "planning" has led to dozens of lawsuits; the City of Whitefish and county government at each others throats; thousands of abandoned and disenfranchised citizens; ongoing attempts to regulate into extinction rural property ownership; numerous legally questionable new local government regulations denying property owners the lawful use of their property; and, on the county level, a legal 'settlement" that even by modest estimates chains taxpayers to several million dollars of debt.

September 16, 2010 11 p.m.

Why planning is a 'bad word'

Over the past several years in Flathead County, this failed and expensive experiment we call "planning" has led to dozens of lawsuits; the City of Whitefish and county government at each others throats; thousands of abandoned and disenfranchised citizens; ongoing attempts to regulate into extinction rural property ownership; numerous legally questionable new local government regulations denying property owners the lawful use of their property; and, on the county level, a legal 'settlement" that even by modest estimates chains taxpayers to several million dollars of debt.

September 16, 2010 11 p.m.

Why planning is a 'bad word'

Over the past several years in Flathead County, this failed and expensive experiment we call "planning" has led to dozens of lawsuits; the City of Whitefish and county government at each others throats; thousands of abandoned and disenfranchised citizens; ongoing attempts to regulate into extinction rural property ownership; numerous legally questionable new local government regulations denying property owners the lawful use of their property; and, on the county level, a legal 'settlement" that even by modest estimates chains taxpayers to several million dollars of debt.