Category: Montana Life
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Sheriff’s Election
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/26/news/state/25-sheriff_x.txt" >Big Horn sheriff candidates defend records</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Big Horn County sheriff candidates Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair and Debbie Uffelman Winburn are battling not only for the job but also against questions that they aren't qualified to serve.<br />n<br />nBig Hair is accused of improprieties as a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer. Winburn is…
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Dinosaur
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/23/news/state/23-power.txt" >Governor announces multibillion dollar transmission line</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>, joined by industry executives, announced plans Monday to build one of the longest electricity transmission lines seen in the West in 40 years _ a line that would carry "green" energy to big energy markets thousands of miles away.<br />n<br />nThe governor,…
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I Will Say it Again
The question I posed over a year ago is still not answered, what makes Gov Schweitzer and his sycophants ever believe the environmental groups are going to allow coal production of any kind in the state of Montana?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1167-Question-As-Yet-Unanswered.html" >Question As Yet Unanswered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Every time I read a story about <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov.…
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Rain Totals
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/18/news/local/45-moisture.txt" >More moisture, but no record</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The weekend's wet weather didn't break any records but certainly provided more moisture than normal.<br />n<br />n………<br />n<br />nOther weekend rain totals, in inches, were: Joliet, 2.67; Red Lodge 2.44 (Saturday and Sunday); Nye 2.4; Derby Mountain, 1.93; Columbus, 1.93; Roundup, 1.24; Pompeys Pillar, 1.19; Hardin, 1.14;…
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Wide Open Skies
Hat tip to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/h/blogs/citylights/?p=1732" title="City Lights">Ed Kemmick</a> for this one. He pointed me to <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/11/BAGO8JSQF61.DTL&hw=testicle&sn=001&sc=1000">a story</a> about a bicyclist trip through Montana and going to the testicle festival in Ryegate. I won't go into the difference in taste of calf "oysters" and bull "oysters" like the writer does but I will quote his…
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Wolf Notes
I see there are some ranchers complaining that the state isn't fast enough <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/13/news/state/70-ranchers.txt" title="Billings Gazette Story">killing problem wolves</a>. for their tastes.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>State wildlife officials take too long to authorize the killing of problem wolves, ranchers and others said Friday at a meeting of the agency oversight committee of the Environmental Quality Council.<br…
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Bison Skull
<img width='200' height='259' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/mtq2.jpg' alt='' /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/30/news/state/35-state-quarter.txt">The bison skull design won</a>. I am glad for that, that is the one I liked. The bison skull has a long tradition as a symbol in Montana, starting with C.M. Russell, and I think it displays well on the coin. The supporters of buffalo roaming…
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An Interesting Sight
Now blame My Darling Wife for no pictures, I was driving and she was so captivated by what we saw that the camera was the last thing on her mind. We were going to Billings yesterday morning and was two miles west of Hardin on the interstate, in the area called the bench, and there…
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Energy Crisis
I'm tired. I don't know if it is everything catching up with me or what the deal is but I'm tired. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/state/25-senate.txt">Primary election coming up</a>, in which I all ready voted, but I'm too tired to. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/business/35-pitch.txt">disingenuous way</a> in which petition gatherers are…
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Not Good News
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/local/30-nazi-group.txt">Nazi group adds point person in Billings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Efforts by a white supremacist group to ramp up activism in Montana, including in Billings, have become successful enough to grab the attention of the Montana Human Rights Network.<br />n<br />nThe National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, has established contact points in three Montana cities —…