One week remaining, and several of the big bills still remain in flux. The big question (back when I was a young feller we used to say this is the $64 question) – can we maintain the desired ending fund balance (significant surplus) and still fund the remaining bills? Not everyone is likely to…
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Report from Helena – Week 14
Inside the maze is confusing – Are bills like Lazarus? Last term I was looking through the window into the maze. This session, even though I am actually standing a little ways into the maze, I still can’t see the other side. The other side being the end zone, the finish line of the…
County needs to listen
Somehow I cannot believe that the Ravalli County Planning Board has not yet figured out that it needs to listen to the public it represents! It seems obvious that for many varied important reasons the people of our County, and especially the Stevensville districts, are insistent about NOT allowing the Legacy Ranch project to…
Guns stand for fear
“Only an armed people are a sovereign people and only armed people are free.” Really? I don’t exactly want to argue, just to point out that very few people in this country and the world agree with that. All of the guns in the USA are owned by way fewer than half of the…
FWP ignored overwhelming public comment
The ability to comment on proposed state and federal government regulations is an important right for all Americans. Since we live in a republic, not a direct democracy, public comment helps our representatives make informed decisions on our behalf. No one expects public comment to be the equivalent of voting. But even so, public…
Telling the truth
Four of five comments concerning my March 8, 2013 letter to the editor said I lied. I quoted but didn’t list references for three studies, all of which should have been headline news. This is the reference for the study reporting important new findings concerning epigenetic changes connected to five brain disorders, including autism…
Commissioners have conflict of interest
I am formally requesting that Commissioners Foss and Stoltz recuse themselves from deliberating about and voting on Legacy Ranch Subdivision. Commissioners Stoltz and Foss both received maximum contributions from Legacy Ranch developer Donald Morton and his wife, Alexandra Morton, during the 2010 election cycle. They also both received contributions from employees of the Legacy…
True freedom
Interesting letters in the paper of late: freedom, freemen, water and dog rights. What is freedom? So many definitions and so many passionate pleas. We must know what it is or what we want if we hope to ever get there. Is freedom a place or is it a thing? Does it include such things…
Railroad mess
The Ravalli County Commissioners Still working on the railroad Now, what to do with The coming “payload” Never should have got there (and that includes Stevi and Hamilton too) Let the railroad run the railroad And stay out of the doo-doo It’s nice to say I told you Of your…
Gun rights
It appears to me that people don’t know, or understand, our Constitution. They have blinders on and don’t see the reason why our Founding Fathers put the 2nd Amendment into it. To quote from Imprimis, March issue, “The Second Amendment reads as follows: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free…
Open Letter to Commissioners re: Legacy
Sunnyside Orchards Legacy Ranch is proposed on Eastside Highway in Dry Gulch with 659 new homes on 368 acres: — roughly 400 feet from pristine Bitterroot River that feeds Columbia River and Pacific Ocean —roughly 400 feet from Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge with no count of dogs, cats, or parties —in a bottleneck valley…
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