http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mt-news/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:15:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284277/posts HELENA - The Montana Pro Life Coalition on Wednesday submitted three proposed constitutional initiatives for the 2010 ballot defining embryos and fetuses as persons with rights, measures that if passed and upheld in courts would effectively ban abortion in Montana. Each proposal would define a person as a human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human. "The language of the personhood amendment proclaims what most people already know, which is that human life begins at conception and that all human beings are persons," Dr. Annie Bukacek, a Kalispell internist, told a rally of about 50 people... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284277/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:15:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282876/posts Health Reform: A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn't get in the system we're told we should emulate. Cost-effective care? In Canada, as elsewhere, you get what you pay for.Ava Isabella Stinson was born last Thursday at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. Weighing only two pounds, she was born 13 weeks premature and needed some very special care. Unfortunately, there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph's — or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario, it seems. IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282876/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:13:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282673/posts Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Although they were not successful in getting their states to sign off on state constitution amendments for personhood for unborn children, pro-life advocates in Colorado and Montana are giving the effort another try. A large majority of Colorado voters rejected one amendment while Montana voters never had a chance to vote on the proposal there.Backers of the amendments will host kickoffs in both states on measures they say will recognize the rights of all citizens, including children who haven't been born. In Montana, pro-life state Rep. Wendy Warburton is working with the Montana Pro Life Coalition... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282673/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275303/posts If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page. As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city officials said. “Please list any and all, current personal or business Web sites, Web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,” states a city waiver form applicants are asked to sign. Three lines... Bozeman Daily Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275303/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:25:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275164/posts Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all. The city is asking job seekers for the user names and passwords to Internet social networking or Web groups they belong too. The decision is sparking an outcry from those who say the policy goes way too far. The issue has spawned hundreds of comments on Web forums and sharp criticism from legislators and the ACLU. "I liken it to them saying they want to look at your love letters and your family photos," said Amy Cannata,... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275164/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:01:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275163/posts The city of Bozeman, Mt is asking potential employees for any web chat rooms or sites they belong to along with the passwords. Yikes. Bozeman demands Internet passwords By MATT GOURAS Associated Press HELENA - Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that those private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all. The city is asking job seekers for the user names - and passwords - to Internet social networking or Web groups they belong to. The decision is sparking an outcry from those who say the policy goes way too far. “I liken... Missoulian Missoula Montana http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275163/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275007/posts Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil. USGS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275007/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274610/posts Applying for a job with the City of Bozeman? You may be asked to provide more personal information than you expected. That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate. The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the... KBZK - Montanasnewsstation.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274610/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:27:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274585/posts If you apply for a job with City of Bozeman - a mid-sized burg halfway across these US - you're forced to surrender usernames and passwords for every account you've set up with websites of the "social networking" variety. According to the City, that includes everything from Facebook and MySpace to YouTube to, well, Yahoo! and Google. "Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," reads a waiver form that allows the City... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274585/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273779/posts WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has declared a public health emergency in a contaminated community, targeting a Montana town Wednesday for immediate federal attention. The declaration by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson involving Libby, Mont., will not result in an evacuation, but will require an extensive cleanup and better health protections for residents with asbestos-related illnesses. -- Asbestos contamination from a now-closed vermiculite mine near Libby has been cited in the deaths of more than 200 people and illnesses of thousands more. Jackson said the public health emergency declaration was the first time the EPA has... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273779/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:11:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271516/posts As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health-care reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he’s also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received from health- and insurance-industry interests. In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Baucus, D-Mont., and his political-action committee has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies, insurers, hospitals, medical-supply firms, health-service companies and other health professionals. These donations total about $3.4 million, or $1,500 a day, every day, from January 2003 through 2008. Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee that is drafting a major health... Independent Record (Helena, MT) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271516/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:01:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270404/posts BRIDGETON — For decades, they roared across the St. Louis sky, inspiring awe and, on occasion, rattling windows. But come Sunday, the last Air National Guard fighter jets stationed at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport are scheduled to make their final departure, the result of a 2005 plan that called for the twin-tailed F-15 Eagles to be redeployed to guard units in Hawaii and Montana. The flights mark the end of an era for St. Louis and the 131st Fighter Wing, a highly-decorated unit that can trace its roots in the city back 86 years and whose members included Charles Lindbergh.... ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270404/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261890/posts A Wild West cattle town is desperate to boost its ailing economy by offering its jail as a new home for the inmates of Guantanamo Bay. Senators and congressman from across America have insisted that their states will not accept terrorist suspects in the homeland, but the folk of Hardin, Montana (population: 3,384) are made of sterner stuff. Greg Smith, Hardin's economic development director, volunteered its state-of-the-art prison to the federal government. "This is a dying town," he said. "Businesses here are struggling like there's no tomorrow. But here is a solution that would help us, help the United States... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261890/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261032/posts Ranchers in the Lemhi Valley of Idaho have suffered increased losses from wolf depredation, as wolf numbers expand. Allen Bodenhamer, who raises cattle near Baker, ID lost three calves this past spring. At first he thought the kills were made by coyotes, then realized he was dealing with wolves. “When coyotes kill a calf they get hold of the back of the neck and basically strangle it. They usually don’t start eating on it while it is still alive. A wolf grabs it by the top of the back or just in front of the hips and is eating on... Swift http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261032/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 03:43:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260779/posts HARDIN, Mont. (AP) - On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world's most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring 'em on. Hardin, a dusty town of 3,400 people so desperate that it built a $27 million jail a couple of years ago in the vain hope it would be a moneymaker, is offering to house hundreds of Gitmo detainees at the brand-new, never-used institution. The medium-security jail was conceived as a holding facility for drunks and other... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260779/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 19:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255105/posts Every day, Darren Newsom's three Bitterroot Valley Ammunition facilities crank out 300,000 rounds of ammunition. It's not nearly enough. “I'm going about 100,000 rounds in the wrong direction every day,” Newsom said. “We probably have about six months of back orders right now.” Newsom has been in the ammunition manufacturing business for more than 20 years and he's never seen demand this high. Fearful of the Obama administration's potential to tighten gun control laws, people from all over the country are stocking up on guns and ammunition. “I went through the Clinton years and there was a bit of a... missouliandotcom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255105/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248898/posts BAGHDAD, May 11, 2009 – Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed here, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, 143rd Military Police Detachment. Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed in Iraq, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, the 143rd Military Police Detachment, Baghdad, 2009. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Mitchell admits it’s hard being a mother and deployed soldier, but she says it doesn’t... Face of Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248898/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 00:17:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247702/posts A federal jury on Friday acquitted W.R. Grace & Co. and three of its former officials of charges that they knowingly exposed residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos poisoning associated with a mining operation and conspired to hide it. The verdict brings to an ignominious end one of the most significant criminal prosecutions the government had ever filed against a corporate polluter. The acquittals raise new questions about prosecutorial failings in the Justice Department, which already was reeling from the dismissal of its corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).In Libby, where an estimated 1,200 residents have died or... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247702/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 20:48:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247229/posts .... What shuts the matrix off? What is the matrix afraid of? Where is the power source of the matrix? Unplug it. Can we just infect the software? That's one option. Or can we unplug the machine so the whole thing goes... I've told you we've got to start challenging the Constitution. We have to start challenging the government. We have to start saying, "You know what, we're going to adopt a sovereignty clauses in our states." But that was to throw the matrix up against the wall and scare them. It was like I was talking last hour, the... Glenn Beck's Radio Show/Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247229/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 22:06:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245391/posts Dinosaur soft tissue and protein—even more confirmation! Mary Schweitzer announces even stronger evidence, this time from a duckbilled dino fossil, of even more proteins—and the same amazingly preserved vessel and cell structures as before... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245391/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 15:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245330/posts The state of Montana has signed into power a revolutionary gun law. I mean REVOLUTIONARY. The State of Montana has defied the federal government and their gun laws. This will prompt a showdown between the federal government and the State of Montana . The federal government fears citizens owning guns. They try to curtail what types of guns they can own. The gun control laws all have one common goal - confiscation of privately owned firearms. Montana has gone beyond drawing a line in the sand. They have challenged the Federal Government. The fed now either takes them on and... Gather http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245330/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 14:24:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245194/posts STEVENSVILLE-Brook Blakeley knows what it’s like to be looking down the business end of an assault rifle. He didn’t much like it. Two Saturdays back, Blakeley and his wife had just finished walking their usual three-mile loop around Three Mile Road on the east side of the Bitterroot Valley just north of Stevensville. Like usual, Blakeley was carrying his pellet rifle on his shoulder. * “My neighbor has given me permission to shoot starlings on his property and so I take my pellet gun along,” he said. “I’m also an avid hunter. I think it is good practice to carry... Ravalli Republic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245194/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 11:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244690/posts Montana Governor Signs New Gun Law Executive Summary - The USA state of Montana has signed into power a revolutionary gun law. I mean REVOLUTIONARY. The State of Montana has defied the federal government and their gun laws. This will prompt a showdown between the federal government and the State of Montana. The federal government fears citizens owning guns. They try to curtail what types of guns they can own. The gun control laws all have one common goal - confiscation of privately owned firearms. Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244690/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 18:31:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243411/posts LEWISTON, Idaho - Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick says gun owners don't need to worry about their gun rights being eroded in the current U.S. Congress. "There is no possibility there is going to be any gun control in this Congress," Minnick told the Lewiston Tribune. Minnick said he's one of 52 conservative "blue dog" Democrats in the House who oppose further gun control. "Nothing can pass in the House without some blue dog support," he said. "The support (for Second Amendment rights) goes far beyond the blue dogs. It's not just fiscally conservative Democrats. I would warrant it's a solid... magicvalley http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243411/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2009 23:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243083/posts GREAT FALLS - Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Warfel of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings has joined dozens of Catholic bishops nationwide in criticizing Notre Dame University for inviting President Barack Obama to speak to graduates. Notre Dame invited the president to give this year's commencement address on May 17 and receive an honorary law degree. Warfel became the 57th Roman Catholic bishop who, as of Friday, had gone on record against the invitation because of the president's support of abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research. The Obama invitation sends a "shamefully ambiguous message" about Notre Dame's fidelity to church teachings,... Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243083/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2009 06:04:47 GMT