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No Politician Deserves My Loyalty
And no politician deserves your loyalty. I may make a personal exception for Reagan and Carter – it is altogether proper to speak no ill of the dead, and there is definitely no chance of either returning to office. Still, in general, no politician deserves my loyalty or yours. Let me comment on Trump. He has been the best President on Second Amendment issues in my lifetime. Hell, probably in my grandfather’s lifetime and mine put together. I voted, hoping he would be better than Hilary Clinton – and he has been. Particularly on gun issues. On the nation’s finances,…
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By Amberli Emery I want to talk about Montana’s CI-132, because my concern goes beyond whether a judge has an R or a D printed beside their name. My concern is what happens AFTER we put this into our Constitution, when Montanans decide they want to change how judicial candidates identify themselves politically. Before somebody…
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In France, there is a section of a Cemetery where the ‘Dishonored Dead’ are buried – 98 US service men executed for murder or rape (or both). When you look at their list, you will see that most were hanged rather than executed by firing squad. At Nuremberg, the Nazi leaders convicted of war crimes…
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We started the Mountain Ear (both times) because we wanted better coverage of local news. There are so many board meetings, and all of them are important. The Tobacco Valley News faces the same problem we do- not enough people and too many meetings, and their focus is on a larger area. So we started…
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An emergency meeting of the Trego school board was called again on May 4 at 4 PM to update the community on the methamphetamine contamination of the school grounds.. Although the meeting was poorly noticed, there were nearly 40 community members in attendance, these included parents, teachers, former students and teachers and interested community members.…
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Earlier this week, a meeting was held to formalize the existing long-term relationship between the TFS Community Hall and the TFS Fire Department. Tables were set to form a circle, and the meeting began with introductions. It was a joint meeting meant to prevent future problems, without any reason to expect them. The issue: an…
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An emergency school board meeting was held at the TFS Community Hall, Saturday at noon (which coincidentally is the time the Rendezvous Parade in Eureka began). The board acknowledged that they failed to provide adequate (48 hours notice) on the meeting, and cited the requisite MCA code allowing it in the event of an unforseen…
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When I went to get some repair work done, the person I was consulting advised fixing the structural issues and then putting the same ancient dilapidated siding back on the building. The rational? Property taxes. Last summer, we joked about how much the nice flowers my mother had on their porch raised their taxes. They…
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I spent most of a year away from the school after I finished my term. I attended a couple of board meetings because I was asked – on one hand, there was, at the least, the appearance of an unlawful board meeting . . . unlawful because it appeared to violate Montana’s open meeting law.…
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Historically, independent voters, and voters for minor third parties, do not get a large percentage of votes. Often, they’re considered “spoiler” candidates, who lose the election for someone by dra4wing critical support away during a close race. Or their thought of as simply “protest candidates” with no chance of winning. In Montana, for the presidential…