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Once again — for now, at least — both sides of the border at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre are planning to stay open the same hours. U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday it would keep the summer hours at Wild Horse — open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. — running through Oct. 31. Canada Border Services Agency announced April 26 it would run the summer hours, which normally are used from May 15 to Sept. 30, from April 29 through Oct. 31. That announcement came not long after CBP said it would not extend the per...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked Thursday about several issues dealing with federal spending, and said he wants to see Congress take action to clean up the budget on both the spending and revenue sides. “The problem is, we can’t get both sides to sit down at the table and look at the expenditures and look at the tax code,” he said from Washington during a telephone press conference. Tester talked about several issues regarding federal spending and budgeting, from cuts proposed to SNAP, formerly known as food stamp...
Montana’s senior senator is joining his counterpart in the House of Representatives to ask for ideas on what should be done to clean up the U.S. federal tax code. “Our tax code hasn’t been updated in 30 years, and it’s full of dead wood and red tape that hurts working families and small businesses and slows down our economy,” Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said in a press release announcing a new update. “Tax reform is about making the tax code simpler and fairer. It’s time to cut out loopholes and bring tax rates down. We’ve g...
Once again the international committee trying to upgrade operations at a border port north of Havre is faced with an hours problem — each side of the port is running different hours of operation. “It was a surprise to me,” Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, who co-chairs the Wild Horse Border Committee with Medicine Hat, Alberta, Mayor Norm Boucher, said Wednesday. After Canada not mirroring U.S. expanded summer hours at the port in each of several years, this year Canada is extending the time frame of the summer hours and the U.S....
Montana's federal lawmakers are starting a new push to pass a bill, which stalled in Congress last session, to help Montana's major industry — agriculture. "One in five Montana paychecks relies on our agriculture industry. Passing a full five-year Farm Bill will support our number one industry in Montana while helping reduce the deficit by $23 billion, " Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said in a press release. "Reducing the deficit while supporting jobs is a win-win, and I'll keep working to make sure the Farm Bill works for M...
BILLINGS — The struggle for control of Montana's largest publicly-traded company is turning increasingly bitter ahead of a May 2 shareholders' vote. Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer and a team of dissident investors are sparring with Stillwater Mining executives over who could better lead the company. The stakes for Schweitzer are high, complicated by his considering a run to replace U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. Success would allow Schweitzer to launch a Senate campaign on a high note. Defeat could tarnish his much-touted business c...
In 2015, Montana will say welcome home to one of our state's greatest public servants, United States Sen. Max Baucus. Max, an avid runner, announced this week that he will be sitting out the 2014 senate race and instead retire after 36 years in the Senate. As the longest-serving Senator in Montana history, Max's decision to sit out stunned everyone from Washington pundits to Main Street Montanans. It was even a surprise to those of us who have worked for him for years. In his announcement, Max cautioned that he's not...
HELENA — Former U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg isn't ruling out a run for the Senate seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. The Republican is coming off a bruising loss last year to Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. But an open Senate seat could entice Rehberg to run again in 2014. Rehberg said Thursday he has been receiving encouragement to take a serious look at the race. He wrote in a brief email to The Associated Press that he owes it to his supporters to "to keep listening and see how things develop." Rehberg is a c...
The members of Montana's congressional delegation have been busy this week before going into a week-long recess for the Memorial Day holiday. Freshman U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., reported that in a hearing Thursday, his bill opening up hydropower electricity generation on federal irrigation projects received bipartisan support, including in testimony by representatives of President Barack Obama's administration. "In Montana, we say 'whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.' That's how important water is to our sta...
A delegation of 18 Havreites, mostly Havre High students, were in Washington Monday to take part in a celebration of American unity. The group, brought together by HHS teacher John Ita, witnessed the formal swearing in of President Barack Obama for a second term. The students were attending the festivities not as a celebration of partisan victory but as a celebration of America and what it stands for. The 18 didn't know who was going to win the election when they signed up for the trip. The deadline to register was before...
An international committee again is working to expand operations of a border crossing north of Havre, trying to increase connections between Montana and its Hi-Line and the hot Alberta economy, including its massive energy operations. The Wild Horse Border Committee is organizing a request to expand hours of operations at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre, with a major goal of setting a three-year pilot program of expanded hours instead of going year-by-year to set a longer period of summer hours. "We're not able, with...
BOZEMAN (AP) — An associate professor at Montana State University died of injuries suffered in a landslide in Nepal, where she was leading a group of students taking an honors program course. Betsy Palmer, 54, was flown to a hospital in Katmandu and died of her injuries on Monday. Palmer and 16 students were on an extended trek to a remote village in the Arun River Valley in the Himalayas when the landslide hit, university spokesman Tracy Ellig said. None of the students was injured. Palmer arrived at MSU in 2001 and was a...
DENVER (AP) — Imagine a political change favored by an overwhelming majority of voters but mostly ignored by politicians. That's what campaign finance activists in Colorado and Montana are facing these days. They're scratching their heads at why politicians aren't talking more about campaign finance just two months after voters in both states, by wide margins, approved a ballot measure calling for federal changes to limit campaign spending. Activists gathered in the Colorado Capitol basement Friday to remind politicians of t...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference Thursday that the federal budgeting process, with a focus on reducing deficit spending, and the implementation of across-the-board cuts, called sequestration, will make it more difficult to continue increasing hours at an international border crossing north of Havre, but the effort is not dead. Tester reiterated his opposition to using across-the-board cuts to reducing deficits — he has repeatedly said targeted cuts, reducing or eliminating spending to specific p...
Montana's junior U.S. senator expressed disappointment over Wednesday's failure to pass a proposal to strengthen background checks in some gun sales. "It was an interesting day," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference from Washington. Tester and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., split their vote on a plan proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Patrick Toomey, R-Penn., designed to prevent criminals and the seriously mentally ill from purchasing firearms. Checks now are required only when guns are purch...
It's like watching an old black-and-white movie with the Keystone Cops, or Bud Abbot and Lou Costello, doing slapstick — but maybe, maybe, not as funny. Once again, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency have agreed to use the same hours at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre after — once again — first saying they wouldn't extend summer hours, then saying maybe they would, then saying they probably wouldn't, then one side extending hours with the other not. It's bureaucratic slaps...
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester returned Monday to the place where he got his political start, urging state lawmakers to focus on bipartisan solutions and telling them the biggest challenge on the federal level will be balancing the budget. Tester is fresh off a bruising and expensive — but ultimately victorious — re-election campaign over Republican challenger Denny Rehberg. He said both sides need to put the sometimes bitter election process behind them and find common ground. Tester built on the emerging theme of coope...
A smile radiated from Sarah Laszloffy's face as she recited the oath of office on the floor of the Montana House of Representatives. At only 21 years of age, she became the youngest member of Montana's 63rd Legislature. "It was surreal," said the new Republican lawmaker from Laurel. "It's really humbling, and I can't believe that it's actually happening." Photo by Jacob Baynham/Community News Service, UM School of Journalism. Sara Laszloffy stands in hte Montana House on her first day in office. Laszloffy isn't the only...
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester returned Monday to the place where he got his political start, urging state lawmakers to focus on bipartisan solutions and telling them the biggest challenge on the federal level will be balancing the budget. Tester is fresh off a bruising and expensive — but ultimately victorious — re-election campaign over Republican challenger Denny Rehberg. He said both sides need to put the sometimes bitter election process behind them and find common ground. Tester built on the emerging theme of coope...
Once again — for now, at least — both sides of the border at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre are planning to stay open the same hours. U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday it would keep the summer hours at Wild Horse — open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. — running through Oct. 31. Canada Border Services Agency announced April 26 it would run the summer hours, which normally are used from May 15 to Sept. 30, from April 29 through Oct. 31. That announcement came not long after CBP said it would not extend the period...
BILLINGS— Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told a gathering of union leaders Friday that he has not decided on a possible run for U.S. Senate in 2014, but indicated he would need their support if he does. The two-term governor is considering a bid to replace fellow Democrat U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, who is stepping down after six terms. AP Photo/Matthew Brown Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, left, speaks with union representatives at the Montana AFL-CIO annual convention in Billings on Friday. Schweitzer, who was e...
HELENA — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is announcing priorities that include more help for jobless veterans, energy development and renewed focus on fixing the nation's debt. AP Photo/The Independent Record, Dylan Brown U.S. Sen. Max Baucus addresses the Montana Legislature Thursday afternoon,in the House Chambers in Helena. Baucus also says his New Year's resolution is to bring the troops home from Afghanistan after 11 years fighting in that country. Baucus spoke to the Montana Legislature on Thursday. The state's senior senator i...
Once again the international committee trying to upgrade operations at a border port north of Havre is faced with an hours problem — each side of the port is running different hours of operation. "It was a surprise to me," Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, who co-chairs the Wild Horse Border Committee with Medicine Hat, Alberta, Mayor Norm Boucher, said Wednesday. After Canada not mirroring U.S. expanded summer hours at the port in each of several years, this year Canada is extending the time frame of the summer hours and the U.S. s...
New U. S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., held a press conference this morning and discussed his 24 hours in Congress, including his family attending his swearing in and his vote this morning against providing $9.7 billion in aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Daines was one of 67 representatives to vote against that aid. That bill now goes to the Senate. A total of 354 representatives approved the bill. "It just gets back to a principle that I committed to when I ran for Congress in Montana, and that is we need to make sure...
New U. S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., held a press conference this morning and discussed his 24 hours in Congress, including his family attending his swearing in and his vote this morning against providing $9.7 billion in aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Daines was one of 67 representatives to vote against that aid. That bill now goes to the Senate. A total of 354 representatives approved the bill. "It just gets back to a principle that I committed to when I ran for Congress in Montana, and that is we need to make sure...
