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The Salvation Army Thrift Shop can be a treasure trove, depending on what you are looking for and how badly you need it. I am a card-carrying thrift-store junkie from way back. When I have time I like to poke in at the Sally Ann and browse. Usually I am looking for nothing in particular, but now and then I have a specific item on my list. I take my time. Most treasure is hidden, the map is lost, and you have to dig. Often I search for a discard that can be transformed into an...
Don Richman and Douglas Stuart are seeking the Republican nomination for the state Senate from District 17, which covers northern Blaine and Hill counties. The primary is Tuesday June 5. The winner will face Democrat Greg Jergeson in the Nov. 6 general elections. Incumbent Craig Tilleman is not running for re-election. DON RICHMAN Both candidates are Blaine County natives. Stuart, a former rancher, is involved in several businesses. Richman is a Harlem insurance agent and has been involved in a wide variety of community...
Clarena Brockie and Tony Belcourt are running for the Democratic nomination for a two-year term in the Montana House for District 32, which includes Rocky Boy's and Fort Belknap Indian reservations and adjacent areas. Belcourt is seeking his third term in the House. He is CEO of Chippewa Cree Construction Co., and has been involved in a variety of community activities on the reservation and in the general Hill County community. Brockie has been involved in numerous school and church activities in Harlem and Hays. She is now...
People need pets; except tropical fish, which are a form of fungus. Your typical dog or yak provides unconditional love, devotion, and a furry surface to caress — much like your Fed Ex driver. They may even cough up a hair ball just to give your life purpose. The pet, that is. Joe Barnhart Have you ever wondered how pets began? Neither have I. No doubt it started with Tyrannosaurus Rex puppies where cavekids were constantly nagged to "get the backyard cleaned up." Today, pets are diligent companions. I spend frolicking hours...
TV/movie studios and record labels are fighting for their survival against an army of cyber-pirates. This is nothing new. The same acts and feelings of desperation have always popped up when new technologies were developed, from when VCRs and audio cassettes first allowed people to copy tapes to when radio and television beamed media into people's home so they didn't have to buy records or movie tickets any more. Zach White And with every advance in technology the companies eventually have realized that people like the new,...
This week, Democrats and Republicans alike will have something to celebrate, albeit for entirely different reasons. March 23 marks the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care reform bill lauded by Democrats for banning some of the worst insurance company practices and panned by Republicans for not going far enough to control the cost of health care. Monica Lindeen Both sides have a knack for using the law to their own ends. But as Montana's chief insurance regulator, I'm more concerned about...
One of the greatest uses of the Internet is commerce. Aside from exchanging information like never before, many discovered how the web could change the exchange of goods and services. Amazon.com began selling books and CDs, but expanded quickly into everything else. You can even have groceries delivered to your door through the company's website, at regular scheduled intervals. eBay.com allowed anyone to buy anything in the largest continuous garage sale in history. Need to buy or sell Time magazines from the 1940s? A car? A...
One of the greatest uses of the Internet is commerce. Aside from exchanging information like never before, many discovered how the web could change the exchange of goods and services. Amazon.com began selling books and CDs, but expanded quickly into everything else. You can even have groceries delivered to your door through the company's website, at regular scheduled intervals. eBay.com allowed anyone to buy anything in the largest continuous garage sale in history. Need to buy or sell Time magazines from the 1940s? A car? A...
More than 30,000 Montanans are unemployed. Our country is $16 trillion in debt. And if Obamacare is allowed to be implemented as currently written, Montana's current budget surplus could be wiped out within 24 months from exploding Medicaid payments. This is not the time to bail out public pension funds in Montana. I have laid out an economic expansion plan that deals with pensions at a later date, once our economy recovers and more Montanans are back to work. We need to keep our priorities on what's most important right now,...
Maybe we could then combine the pool budget for this year with the budget for next year to do the most needed repairs. Maybe the person who made that comment was me. You know how small towns are. The next day half the citizenry were in a panic and an uproar. "Did you hear? The city is going to close the pool. Where will our children go if they cannot go to the pool?" In a mere 24 hours, my suggestion, which had been ignored at the meeting, had now become gospel truth. Sondra...
My bag is packed. Soon I will be on an airplane with my cousin Shirley from Harlem and my cousin Maxine, who lives in Helena. Our destination is Louisville, Ky. We'll pick up a rental car, cross the Ohio River and drive the winding River Road to Elizabeth, Ind., and out into the country toward Laconia and our Aunt Mary. We go to join with Indiana family to celebrate Aunt Mary's 98th birthday. When I return to Indiana, I return to my first home, to a reunion with Indiana...
Should workers and employers have only seven to 10 days notice before they face a unionization election? Apparently, that's the union boss standard being forced on Montana's workplaces. If these so-called "ambush elections" become enshrined in federal labor regulations, we'll see a steady rise in forced unionization and the discord and disharmony such activity brings to our workplaces. No one disputes the right of employees to freely join a union and collectively bargain for their rights. But joining a union is a big...
As the end of the school year rapidly approaches students in the class of 2012 have already began to make plans for graduation. Graduation is the culmination of a K-12 journey that is cause for celebration. On Sunday, May 27, at 4 p.m., family, friends and the community will gather inside the Havre High School gymnasium to commemorate this joyous occasion. Unfortunately there are students who started that journey that for varying reasons will not be present at the ceremony. It is an unsettling truth, and we as a school...
I started reading the Women's Health Magazine article "First bite warning: Foods that make you do bad things," which explains how eating sugary, fatty and other junk foods starts people on a crazed, junk food binge. Duh. I was hoping to read that lima beans cause carjackings, or canned asparagus has been linked to adultery and tax fraud, or fried liver and onions is the leading cause of sociopathic behavior in teens. Nevertheless, I'm sure I'm right. ——— Denver telev...
"I don't know what to do," said Kathy. "Richard thinks he has to have a chain saw. I keep telling him we don't have money in the budget for a chain saw, but you know Richard. He is researching for the perfect model." "Are you sure he hasn't already bought one? Did you check to see if he has one hidden in the trunk of the car? And, whatever you do, don't take any trips without Richard." When Kathy and I go on a trip, Richard often takes the opportunity to buy his latest...
Graduation Matters Montana. All across the state, students are walking across the stage to receive their diplomas and celebrating this significant milestone with their families and friends. As state superintendent, I have the privilege to share in several graduation celebrations. This year, I will speak at Rocky Boy's high school graduation after being invited by two students who serve on my Student Advisory Board. These two young leaders started a peer mentoring program to improve their school's graduation rate, and both...
A gray compact car eased up to the curb in front of my house. Two women got out and started up my walk. I had seen them drive up, so I met them at the door. They seemed hesitant. A bit red-faced. One of them asked, "May we see your bathroom?" "Oh, of course." I was relieved that the purpose of their visit was neither religious nor political. "Come in." I'm used to strangers who knock on my door and ask for the bathroom tour. Generally, they follow the request with "so and so...
Graduation Matters Montana. All across the state, students are walking across the stage to receive their diplomas and celebrating this significant milestone with their families and friends. As state superintendent, I have the privilege to share in several graduation celebrations. This year, I will speak at Rocky Boy's high school graduation after being invited by two students who serve on my Student Advisory Board. These two young leaders started a peer mentoring program to improve their school's graduation rate, and both...
Many years ago, when I was Back East, the newspaper I worked at was in an old-fashioned newspaper war with a paper in a neighboring community. One of the columnists for "the other guys" was a young woman who learned one day that she had cervical cancer. Many of us would crawl into a corner, fearing the future. Not this woman. She began writing a column periodically on her disease, updating readers in how things were going and how she was feeling as the cancer progressed. She knew all along that the final column would not be...
Politico, the website that is the go-to place for political junkies looking for their fix, has been paying a lot of attention to Montana in recent days. Every month, Politico lists the top 10 most closely watched U. S. Senate races in this November's elections. Once again in July, Montana's donnybrook between incumbent Jon Tester and U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg was third on the list, trailing only Massachusetts and Virginia. Tester "won" July, Politico declared, based on his success with his campaign ads claiming that Rehberg...
When I moved back to Harlem, what was supposed to be my lawn looked to me to be a 40-acre grass-infested weed patch. In reality, huge as it seemed, my house sits on a mere two city lots with a large backyard. I was used to natural landscaping with nary a blade of grass to nurture. And danged if I was going to start. I cringed at the thought of spouting our limited water onto grass to mow to water to mow and so it goes. The first year in my transformation plan, I set out...
I ask you, "What makes a presidential election year more fun than eating roasted crickets?" Well, sure, there's watching millions being blown. Money better spent, say, reducing the federal budget deficit — but I'm just being silly. Candidates believe practice makes perfect — just in case, you know, they're elected. Dollars aside, the main attraction is election polls. It's impossible to pick up a newspaper with a nuclear sub parked on it. Go ahead, try. Yet inside papers everywhere, reliable election polls by outfits lik...
As elected leaders and policymakers struggle to kick-start our economy, a key element of recovery is education and training opportunities for low-income young people. In the Havre area, we know that youth training programs work because of the success of our YouthBuild program. It helps low-income youth who have left school, and who may have gotten in trouble with the law, to get the skills they need for a better future. Paul Tuss On the Hi-Line where unemployment rates regularly soar to 70 percent on our Indian reservations,...
State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy of Box Elder is running for another four-year term as the state senator from District 16. He is challenged in Tuesday's Democratic primary by the man he beat four years ago, Frank Smith of Poplar. The winner Tuesday will be unopposed in the Nov. 6 general election. Windy Boy: Age : 53 Jonathan Windy Boy Family: Single, seven siblings, daughter Jennifer, 26, two granddaughters, Jenuine Ry'Lynn, 9, and Jazmine Rose, 8. Education: Graduated from Box Elder High School in 1976, co-captain of the...
I am firmly in favor of denial. In fact, I recommend everybody stay in denial as long as possible. Willful ignorance is the land of bliss. But all good things must end. The end of my denial I blame on my daughter. Here's what happened. Her doctor ordered her to take a sleep apnea test. "That's interesting," I said. "Tell me about it." I should have kept my mouth shut. Sondra Ashton Dee Dee described her symptoms: things like waking several times a night, dreams of...
