Keeping the government out of Montanan's private lives a non-partisan issue

Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted Montana an extension of time to conform to the “REAL ID” law passed by Congress in 2005. In a nutshell the REAL ID law demanded that state driver license and identification cards conform to federal requirements concerning information and data sharing as …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Keeping the government out of Montanan's private lives a non-partisan issue

Recently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted Montana an extension of time to conform to the “REAL ID” law passed by Congress in 2005. In a nutshell the REAL ID law demanded that state driver license and identification cards conform to federal requirements concerning information and data sharing as …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Op-ed: Deep thoughts on a tractor in Trout Creek

As I was working on one of my old tractors (it’s a Farmall 806 for the curious) I began cussing the engineers who designed it, as I have many times in the past. Why, oh why would anyone put a bolt in an almost, but not quite, inaccessible place? How …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Op-ed: Deep thoughts on a tractor in Trout Creek

As I was working on one of my old tractors (it’s a Farmall 806 for the curious) I began cussing the engineers who designed it, as I have many times in the past. Why, oh why would anyone put a bolt in an almost, but not quite, inaccessible place? How …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

How to get rich quick… if you're a bank

How would you like to increase your net worth without breaking a sweat? It's easy! And it's legal! Say your bank won't loan you money because you don't have enough assets to qualify, or maybe your fiance's parents think you're a bum because you drive a clunker and live in …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

How to get rich quick… if you're a bank

How would you like to increase your net worth without breaking a sweat? It's easy! And it's legal! Say your bank won't loan you money because you don't have enough assets to qualify, or maybe your fiance's parents think you're a bum because you drive a clunker and live in …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

How to get rich quick… if you're a bank

How would you like to increase your net worth without breaking a sweat? It's easy! And it's legal! Say your bank won't loan you money because you don't have enough assets to qualify, or maybe your fiance's parents think you're a bum because you drive a clunker and live in …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Tea and taxes

On April 15, a respectable number of folks conducted "Tea Parties' across Montana to protest what they view as high taxes. It's all a matter of perception, I suppose, I know a lot of people who think their taxes are pretty reasonable, but I think it would be hard to …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Tea and taxes

On April 15, a respectable number of folks conducted "Tea Parties' across Montana to protest what they view as high taxes. It's all a matter of perception, I suppose, I know a lot of people who think their taxes are pretty reasonable, but I think it would be hard to …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Tea and taxes

On April 15, a respectable number of folks conducted "Tea Parties' across Montana to protest what they view as high taxes. It's all a matter of perception, I suppose, I know a lot of people who think their taxes are pretty reasonable, but I think it would be hard to …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Where there's a will there's a way to chill it

Is it just me or do the Republicans in the Montana Senate seem a little schizophrenic? A couple of weeks ago they cut 15,000 kids from eligibility in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS) because they said they didn't have the money (they did), and last week they passed three …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Where there's a will there's a way to chill it

Is it just me or do the Republicans in the Montana Senate seem a little schizophrenic? A couple of weeks ago they cut 15,000 kids from eligibility in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS) because they said they didn't have the money (they did), and last week they passed three …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Where there's a will there's a way to chill it

Is it just me or do the Republicans in the Montana Senate seem a little schizophrenic? A couple of weeks ago they cut 15,000 kids from eligibility in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS) because they said they didn't have the money (they did), and last week they passed three …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Are we 'too small to matter' in bailout fiasco?

One of the sore points almost everyone has about the bailout of the banks and companies is that they "are too big to fail." That was probably the most unfortunate choice of words that Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulsen, could have used when he decided to bail out …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Are we 'too small to matter' in bailout fiasco?

One of the sore points almost everyone has about the bailout of the banks and companies is that they "are too big to fail." That was probably the most unfortunate choice of words that Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulsen, could have used when he decided to bail out …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Are we 'too small to matter' in bailout fiasco?

One of the sore points almost everyone has about the bailout of the banks and companies is that they "are too big to fail." That was probably the most unfortunate choice of words that Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulsen, could have used when he decided to bail out …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS AGO

Doesn't get why they don't get it

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WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Doesn't get why they don't get it

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HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Doesn't get why they don't get it

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BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

I don't get why they don't get it

American Internation Group, the giant insurance company whose slipshod financial services sector is largely responsible for getting the world's financial crisis rolling, has announced that it will dole out somewhere in the ballpark of $730 million in 'retention pay" and "performance bonuses' to executives and "valuable" employees. Now I know …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

I don't get why they don't get it

American Internation Group, the giant insurance company whose slipshod financial services sector is largely responsible for getting the world's financial crisis rolling, has announced that it will dole out somewhere in the ballpark of $730 million in 'retention pay" and "performance bonuses' to executives and "valuable" employees. Now I know …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

I don't get why they don't get it

American Internation Group, the giant insurance company whose slipshod financial services sector is largely responsible for getting the world's financial crisis rolling, has announced that it will dole out somewhere in the ballpark of $730 million in 'retention pay" and "performance bonuses' to executives and "valuable" employees. Now I know …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Flapjack flops, democracy suffers

Well, the bill that would have designated the “whole wheat huckleberry pancake” as Montana’s official flapjack has flopped. The idea for the bill arose from students at Franklin Elementary in Missoula who wanted to participate in the legislative process. They are not the first, and will not be the last, …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Flapjack flops, democracy suffers

Well, the bill that would have designated the “whole wheat huckleberry pancake” as Montana’s official flapjack has flopped. The idea for the bill arose from students at Franklin Elementary in Missoula who wanted to participate in the legislative process. They are not the first, and will not be the last, …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Flapjack flops, democracy suffers

Well, the bill that would have designated the “whole wheat huckleberry pancake” as Montana’s official flapjack has flopped. The idea for the bill arose from students at Franklin Elementary in Missoula who wanted to participate in the legislative process. They are not the first, and will not be the last, …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Taxes, love and logic

One of the campaign promises made by Montana Republicans in the 2008 campaign was to eliminate the business equipment tax. It’s not the wisest thing to do, but that’s never stopped a politician.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Taxes, love and logic

One of the campaign promises made by Montana Republicans in the 2008 campaign was to eliminate the business equipment tax. It’s not the wisest thing to do, but that’s never stopped a politician.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Taxes, love and logic

One of the campaign promises made by Montana Republicans in the 2008 campaign was to eliminate the business equipment tax. It’s not the wisest thing to do, but that’s never stopped a politician.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Words without opposites

Noon every other Monday is the deadline for me to deliver this column to those newspapers which have the sense—good or bad, I can’t say—to print it. This Thursday is Christmas, but there is no holiday from deadlines for the folks who put out newspapers, even weekly ones. There will …
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Words without opposites

Noon every other Monday is the deadline for me to deliver this column to those newspapers which have the sense—good or bad, I can’t say—to print it. This Thursday is Christmas, but there is no holiday from deadlines for the folks who put out newspapers, even weekly ones. There will …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Words without opposites

Noon every other Monday is the deadline for me to deliver this column to those newspapers which have the sense—good or bad, I can’t say—to print it. This Thursday is Christmas, but there is no holiday from deadlines for the folks who put out newspapers, even weekly ones. There will …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO