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Colleen Rast has run an ebay store out of the Kalispell area for more than a decade. It had grown enough that, when the economic downturn took her husband's job a few years ago, she turned Great Sky Gifts pro, for some more income. She has since hired two employees and rents a warehouse space to handle all her merchandise, but she fears that new tax laws gaining momentum in Washington could halt her business' growth. Montanans are some of the most fortunate Americans for many reasons, including the freedom from sales taxes. B...
A Havre native is returning to a federal-level economic development job. U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced today that Tony Preite has been appointed Montana State director of U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, a position he also took in 1993 when he retired from the position of executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp. in Havre. "I'm thrilled to go back to USDA Rural Development and work closely with partners at every level to bring even more jobs to Montana communities," Preite said in the...
Baucus Serving you is the greatest privilege of my life. Over the past 40 years, I've had one goal: make life better for the people of this state. You don't become the longest serving senator in Montana without a lot of help from a lot of people. I am grateful for the opportunity you have given me. When I asked my hero Mike Mansfield whether I should run for U.S. Senate, he told me it would take a lot of hard work, a lot of shoe leather and a bit of luck. In the next year and a half, instead of campaigning, I want to spend...
The newest member of Montana's congressional delegation is returning to the Hi-Line and Havre next week in the midst of a statewide Natural Resources Tour. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., will tour Devon Energy Corp. facilities Wednesday and talk to representatives of the company about their work in oil and natural gas exploration and production. Daines kicked off his statewide tour Wednesday, during Congress' Easter recess, with tours of technology development and manufacturing firm Resodyn Corp. in Butte and NorthWestern...
Montana's U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they have secured the inclusion of an oilseed well-suited to Montana as a source for fuel in the nation's Renewable Fuel Standard — camelina, known in history as gold-of-pleasure. Montana State University-Northern has been intensely researching using oil from the seed, that is well-suited to grow in north-central Montana, in the creation of biodiesel and aviation fuel. Northern recently patented a process to create all components of jet fuel using camelina oil. Sens. Max B...
Few federal tax policies are as immediately revolting as the death tax. The idea that the government has the right to confiscate a set percentage of an individual's assets after his death strikes us as downright immoral. It punishes grieving family members, adds stressful burdens both before and after death, and lets government step between the dying person and their bequest to the designated inheritors. Moreover, it's double taxation because the deceased person already paid taxes on the income used to buy his assets. Henry...
The left wing of the political spectrum joined forces with the right wing on Tuesday, screaming in delight that Sen. Max Baucus would not run for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate. Tea party groups pointed to Baucus' support for Obamacare, while the left wing blogs were steamed that Baucus let people down with his vote against mandatory background checks to purchase weapons. Baucus always said he had the best one million bosses in the world — the people of Montana. We suspect that today the million bosses will be more kind t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic officials say Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, plans to retire. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. speaks on Capitol Hill on April 17. According to Democratic officials: The six-term Democratic Sen. Max Baucus plans to retire. The 72-year-old Democrat has served six terms. He helped steer President Barack Obama's ambitious health care overhaul into law in 2010 but more recently broke w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful Senate Finance chairman who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but broke with his party on gun control, said Tuesday he will not run for re-election. "I don't want to die here with my boots on. There is life beyond Congress," the 71-year-old Baucus said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., enters the Speaker's office for a meeting about tax cuts on Capitol Hill in W...
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., speaks on Capitol Hill on April 17. The six-term Democratic Sen. Max Baucus said this morning he plans to retire. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful Senate Finance chairman who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but broke with his party on gun control, said this morning he will not run for re-election. "I don't want to die here with my boots on. There is life beyond Congress," t...
Montana's U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester said Thursday they have nominated a Havre native with decades of economic development experience for the position of Montana state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development. Baucus and Tester said in a press release they have nominated Tony Preite for the job, pending appointment by President Barack Obama. Preite would take the place of Matt Jones, who left the USDA Rural Development position to take a job as a communications director for Burlington...
Editor: I read and hear rhetoric aimed at our new Congressman Steve Daines, blaming Daines for the sequester cuts. I wanted to point out some facts in defense of Mr. Daines because the truth hasn't made its way out from the fray just yet. Mr. Daines is serving his first term as Montana's only U.S. Congressman, and he was sworn in to office in January. The sequester was a plan crafted by President Barack Obama and the 112th Congress — sponsored by Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa. Mr. Daines serves in the 113th Congress. I m...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds Havre High School seniors Paul Jeffries, left, and Aaron Gales speak to Montana Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, Sunday at the Blaine and Hill County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner at the Duck Inn Olympic Room. Gales spoke to the group about the newly formed Teen Age Republicans Club at Havre High, which is pending approval by the Havre school board. A Havre High School senior asked local Republicans for help raising awareness on political issues — and even about the existence of politics — during t...
(Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., voted against background checks legislation. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., voted yes.) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by families of the victims of last winter's mass elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Attempts to ban assault-style rifles and high capacity ammunition magazines also f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama's health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it's headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama's health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care l...
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus helped block a bipartisan effort to increase restrictions on gun sales. The Senate voted Wednesday to reject expanded background checks to more gun sales, instead of just those handled by licensed firearms dealers. Baucus said Montanans have told him "loud and clear that they are overwhelmingly opposed to new gun control laws." The six-term senator says the Obama administration needs to do a better job of enforcing current laws. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester voted in support of the background c...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., pushed U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe Wednesday to reverse his decision to end Saturday mail delivery in the country. "It's in the Constitution that we have to have a Postal Service," Tester said. "It's worked well for this country for centuries, and the fact is when it comes to our senior citizens, when it comes to rural America, it's absolutely critical. So I'm one of those guys who, when they say 'cut service on Saturdays,' says 'no' and wants to know what other options are out...
A significant chunk of federal Impact Aid money is coming to help four Montana schools, including improvements to the facilities in Box Elder and on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The Montana projects total nearly $7 million, Montana's senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester have announced. Voyd St. Pierre, superintendent of Rocky Boy schools and president of Indian Impact Schools of Montana, said in a press release issued by Baucus and Tester, both Montana Democrats, that the funding will help his district. "This funding will...
HELENA — Montana Democrats left little question Saturday night what their top priority is: elect party leader Sen. Max Baucus to a seventh term in 2014. Democrats are coming off a 2012 election cycle that saw a lot of successes — topped by re-electing U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and putting Steve Bullock in the governor's office. The party held its annual Mansfield-Metcalf fundraising dinner Saturday and the focus was all about Baucus, the top Democrat up this election cycle. AP Photo/Matt Gouras U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, left, and U.S....
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 got...
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 stamps, to...
Montana's freshman U.S. representative is stepping into the spotlight on some high-profile issues, cosponsoring a bill he says will restore religious freedoms infringed upon by health care reform. Rep. Steve Daines also testified before the House Budget Committee that congressional pay should be tied to balancing the federal budget. A press release from Daines, R-Mont., said he spoke before members of the House Budget Committee today during "Member's Day," an annual hearing allowing members of Congress to convey their ideas a...
State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, expressed his thanks to people who supported his Senate resolution acknowledging Idle No More, a Canadian movement. The movement started in protest of a budget resolution people in the movement say hurts the rights of Canadian Indians and will harm the environment for all Canadians, Windy Boy said his Senate Resolution 9 acknowledging the Idle No More movement passed the Senate Wednesday and will be forwarded to Gov. Steve Bullock, Senate President Jeff Essman, R-Billings, U.S...
U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said Wednesday he is hearing many concerns about natural resource management in Montana, and that Montana's federal lawmakers need to work together and with constituents to make federal policy better. "I think we can forge some common-ground solutions here," he said. Daines spoke to the Havre Daily News in between a meeting with representatives of Devon Energy in Havre and a meeting in Choteau to hear ideas on how to best manage the Rocky Mountain Front. He said several issues he has heard...
Although, as President Barack Obama said, neither side of the aisle got everything they wanted as part of the deal, U.S. lawmakers gave a New Year's gift to their constituents, working Tuesday to pass a tax bill that will keep income taxes from going up on 99 percent of Americans. Lawmakers also dealt with issues ranging from alternative energy to the federal farm programs. See related story on Page A8. The holiday vote split the Montana congressional delegation, with Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester voting for the...
