Posts under ‘Montana’

Do the promoters of this petition to bring back the Hiawatha train route realize the many physical and legal obstacles in their way?  Like, people’s houses, and rails-to-trails rides like the one up in Taft?  Condemning these “encroachments” on the old railbed will. take. decades.
But don’t let that stop ya, dreamers.
UPDATE: MikeH says I’m wrong, [...]

Heh, the mom and pop bars are fighting back.
More than four months after a smoking ban in Montana’s bars went into effect, on any good night a cloud of cigarette smoke wafts through the Turah Pines Bar.
Sometimes, said Peggy Bjornberg, a bar owner has to do what a bar owner has to do.
“We’ve been in [...]

The RNC resolution Gabe blogged about at Ace yesterday has just arrived in my hot little hands.
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have recently supported primary or special election candidates who professed allegiance to the Republican Party but who, as their circumstances changed and to [...]

Patterico has uncovered what appears to be curiously similar letters-to-the-editor by “Ellen Light” and “Mark Spivey” appearing in publications all over the country - decrying the Republicans,  supporting ObamaCare and so forth.
Whoever is behind this doesn’t seem to realize that the dupes can be uncovered with a simple Google search…anyway it made me wonder how [...]

This sounds like a good move, but let’s hope the software vendor who just lost this $18 million contract is from out of state, yes?
Anyway, the governor probably saved the Labor Department and business end-users from a mess of transition headaches. Software projects are ugly (and don’t ask me how I know).

We went to the Great Falls area this weekend and saw miles and miles of idled TTX container cars along the Missouri River, from Wolf Creek to Cascade and even more in Ulm.  Family from Sidney said it was the same coming from the east.  Related story.