Category: Montana Life

I couldn't believe <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/18/build/business/40-progress.inc">this.</a > Why does Billings need a more casinos? Every place you look there is a casino. And I have never been in one of them. There are places that I am interested in but when I see the casino connected to it I refuse to go. I just don't see…

Now I might not always recognize a good idea when I see it but <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/15/build/state/30-mercury-controls.inc">this</a> definitely is a good idea that needs pursued. I'm afraid I am a little confused by one thing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>David Hoffman, manager of PPL Montana's external affairs department, said that while he agreed power plants need to limit mercury…

Montana still comes it at the bottom of the heap when it comes to the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/31/build/state/50-wages.inc">average wage per job</a> according to the Department of Labor and Industry. Not a surprise, things don't change overnight but something really sticks out to me. <br />n<br />nWhy are we worrying so much about about worker training. Don't…

Anybody who's interested in the "Last Best Place" fiasco can go to <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/2563/">New West</a> and find out more and go to thier new website <a href="http://www.savethelastbestplace.org/index.php/Main_Page">savethelastbestplace.org</a> on what you can do to help save this phrase from being trademarked. Thanks to Courtney Lowery at New West for this.<br />n<br />n<b>To rescue from oblivion even…

<img width='360' height='183' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/07262005plate.jpg' alt='' />Talk about an ugly piece of s**t. The truly bad thing is it's going to have to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/27/build/local/50-plates.inc">hang on my vehicles</a> for a while. It will more than likely drive the price of the vehicles down even further than they are.<br />n<br />n<b>The ugly is very…

It appears Montana Highway Patrolmen have to make a <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/automotive/4699969/detail.html">certain number of stops</a> while on duty.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>For motorists wondering whether police are working on a quota system, an answer can be found in Montana.<br />n<br />nA new policy requires state troopers to stop at least one vehicle an hour — whether the driver…

I found this story about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/01/build/state/70-racism-mediation.inc">racism</a> interesting. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>The story's author, Anne E. Pettinger, reported instances of racism that included store employees admitting to watching American Indian customers with more vigilance and Indians being treated unfairly in local businesses.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI wonder why this mediator isn't in Billings investigating things. The same thing…

I've been very supportive of the new power plant being built in Hardin. Any kind of job machine in this area is great and should be encouraged. The only thing that has worried me about the whole thing is the possibility that they would want to truck the coal to the plant from the Sarpy…

I have a question for Rick Sampsen about a comment he made in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/17/build/state/25-farm.inc">newest story</a> in the Gazette's series Unsettling Times.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Billings has sucked Eastern Montana dry," Sampsen said, referring to the young people gone to the city for a different life.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat in tarnation is so wrong with our young…

Might be going to have a regular border war down here in Big Horn County. For those that don't know the Crow Indian Tribe and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe share a common border along the 107th meridian. It is probably one of the few things the two tribes have in common but a border…