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Friday, January 27, 2012 5:49:56 AM
Montana Ranks 8th for Business Climate Tax Index, Report Says
Montana ranks No. 8 for its tax climate for business – dropping a notch from seventh place in 2011 – according to a 2012 report released Wednesday by an organization that monitors fiscal policies. Wyoming ranked No. 1, according to the eighth edition of the State Business Tax Climate Index put out by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:07:04 PM
Once Again, St. Onge Battles Back
Shane St. Onge doesn’t like to be dramatic, but the truth is, he really could have died that summer day in 2010 when his truck ran off the road while logging and crashed into the forest. “That wreck could have been way worse,” the Glacier High School senior said. “It was just inches from being – I don’t want to say fatal – but way worse. I’m lucky.”

Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:28:14 PM
Romney is the Aggressor in Final Florida Debate
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An aggressive Mitt Romney repeatedly challenged Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich in a fast-paced campaign debate Thursday night, ridiculing the former House speaker's call to build costly projects in key primary states and to colonize the moon. Just days before the primary election in Florida, a state with a large number of immigrants, Romney vehemently denied Gingrich's own accusation that he is anti-immigrant — more so than any other candidate. And, as charges flew back and forth, Gingrich rebutted any suggestion that he wasn't the man to rein in federal spending.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:09:16 PM
Local Ski Teams Finding Success on the Slopes
The local Whitefish Mountain Resort Ski Team had an impressive showing at the first Junior Olympic qualifying event of the season at Big Mountain recently. Whitefish skier Nevada Cramer won the 15-16 year-old division of the giant slalom competition and placed third in the slalom. Madeline Williams took second in the 17-19 division for slalom and third in giant slalom. Erin Tabish placed third in giant slalom and fourth in slalom. Complete results are below. The event was one of the state’s qualifiers for the Western Region’s Junior Olympics at Big Sky and Bridger…

Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:51:47 PM
Going International
There was little doubt when record-setting post Brian Qvale completed his four-year University of Montana career as the top shot blocker in Big Sky Conference history, the Grizzlies would experience a huge void on both ends of the court. But hanging up his maroon and silver jersey a little over a year ago was by no means the end of Qvale’s time on the hardwood.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:29:20 AM
Obama Admin Says New Forest Rules Stress Science
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wildlife while promoting uses ranging from recreation to logging. The new rules, to replace guidelines thrown out by a federal court in 2009, are set to take effect in early March. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the rule change on Thursday.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:01:42 AM
Health Care Reform Takes Shape
Almost two years after becoming law, health care reform remains embroiled with politics and cloaked with uncertainty, while the details of how the overhaul will materialize remain hazy. Last week the White House proclaimed that several states are moving forward with implementing the new law, which will require all Americans have health insurance beginning in 2014. For states like Montana that have been resistant to the reform, the Obama administration has begun creating federal backstops that are scheduled to go into effect two years from now.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:50:23 AM
Middle School Students Caught with Jell-O Shots, Suspended
Five Kalispell Middle School students were suspended and charged with being minors in possession of alcohol for allegedly eating Jell-O shots and drinking alcohol at school.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:00:54 AM
Rotten Young People
9:55 a.m. An man near Echo Lake wanted to fire off his shotgun in order to scare young people away from his home. He wondered if it was legal. 10:15 a.m. A teenager in Lakeside, according to her mom, is disobeying parental commands, ditching school and associating with “undesirables."

Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:57:43 AM
Illegal Prohibition on Free Speech
Last month, the Montana Supreme Court overturned an earlier victory for free speech rights won in Helena district court by American Tradition Partnership (ATP), Montana Shooting Sports Association, and Champion Painting, Inc. over government bureaucrats’ right to bar individuals and companies from airing political opinions under a non-profit or for-profit corporate umbrella. The ban on speech that Montana’s court temporarily restored was enacted before Prohibition, in response to this state’s embarrassing history of political corruption by state politicians and newspapermen who were bankrolled by the copper barons in a bygone era.

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