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(This guest column was submitted by public health officers from throughout Montana.) It is well known that the United States spends a lot of money on medical care, more than $8,000 for each man, woman and child or about $2.6 trillion in 2010. What do we have to show for our investment? Because we spend twice as much on medical care than what the 14 wealthiest nations in the world spend, does that mean we are healthier? No. The U.S. did not even make the top 20 on Bloomberg's recent "Healthiest Countries" ranking. How do we be...
Rick Dow — guest columnist The day after Thanksgiving is for leftovers and laziness. It is a weekday, but yet it feels like a weekend day; a day with a different tempo, a day to be enjoyed in a kick back kind of way. It is a day where time alternately stands still and flies by all at the same time. It is a day where, before I knew it, it was time for a quick gander at the Havre Daily News. Pat Williams' guest column caught my attention. Not long into it, I realized that I would need some cheese from the fridge to fully e...
There was standing room only at the Havre City Council meeting last night. As soon as the United Nations pledge of allegiance to the earth was recited, the gathering was called to order. Tempers flared as the council members approved construction plans for a bordello in the town limits. Representatives of the radical group, The New Moral Majority, a throwback to the 1980s hate group the Moral Majority, asked the council if they would want to see their own family and friends work in such a place. The State Political Officer,...
Wednesday, July 14, is the French holiday known as Bastille Day. Wait, please do not put the paper down while muttering "Who gives a rat's derriere about some French holiday?!" Bastille is derived from the word bastide which means fortress. In the years preceding July 14,1789, the French king imprisoned anyone he suspe c t ed of unde rmining hi s supreme reign. Those who were rounded up by clandestine authority were not told what crime they had committed or given a trial to defend themselves. Although the Bastille did not...
