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When traveling north down tree-lined 3rd Avenue in Havre, Montana you will pass by many well-kept historic and contemporary houses. Beautiful wood, brick and stone churches are found nearby on parallel streets to the right. The Hill County Courthouse, also on the right, marks the end of the residential area and the beginning of the city business district in earnest. The vacant United States Post Office and courthouse building circa 1930 occupies roughly a quarter of a city block on the left. A newer USPS building can be found...
A couple of weeks ago at the Havre City Council public hearing to consider a local social host ordinance, a teenager stood before the council and made a compelling case to prohibit people from providing a place for teens to drink alcohol. She said, "When adults provide teens with a place to drink or alcohol to drink, it gets harder to say no … I just want my friends to be safe." The Havre City Council agreed. Under its authority to "protect public health, safety, and general welfare" and "enforce laws prohibiting the c...
After 88 days of Republican leaders repeatedly ignoring our input, it is not surprising to hear them now cry foul and blame the governor for "breaking the budget deal." Fact is, they didn't listen much at all this session, so disregarding the budget agreement they signed seems to be right on cue. Rather than collaborating with Democrats to craft a balanced, responsible budget to live within our means and maintain critical services for Montanans, the Republicans postured and procrastinated for weeks. They decided their...
As the leaders of the House and Senate for the 62nd legislative session we strived to adhere to a higher standard of ethics that Montanans should expect from their elected officials. One of the basic ethical rules says: When you make a promise, keep it. We put the state's budget on the governor's desk on the 75th day of the legislature, earlier than any other in history. This gave him a chance to look it over and discuss any changes he would like to see with us. Following these negotiations, we signed a public budget agreemen...
Back when he presided over the Senate's health care reform debate, Max Baucus, chairman of the all-powerful Senate Finance Committee, had said everything was on the table — except for single-payer universal health care. When doctors, nurses, and others rose in his hearing to insist that single payer be included in the debate, the Montana Democrat had them arrested. As more stood up, Baucus could be heard on his open microphone saying, "We need more police." Yet when Baucus needed a solution to a catastrophic health d...
A few weeks ago in Billings, at a municipal officials workshop, while eating lunch and eavesdropping on a conversation between the mayor of Malta and the mayor of Saco, I heard her ask him about his hay mulch garden. I overheard the words "no weeds." I quit eavesdropping and scooted into the conversation. "Tell me everything you know," I said. And that is how Howard Pippin, mayor of Saco, became my garden mentor. When I moved back to Montana after 25 years in the Pacific Northwest, I bought my dad's house on the edge of...
The 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit" is truly an American classic. The plot was simple enough. A couple of Georgia politicians needed 400 cases of their favorite beer for a shindig, the catch being that Coors was only available west of the Mississippi at the time. The politicians, known as the Enos brothers, offered to pay a hefty price if the beer could be fetched from Texarkana, Texas, and delivered to Atlanta, Ga., within 28 hours. Rick Dow A glorious, gas-guzzling Pontiac Trans Am V-8 ran interference and distraction...
Many residents around Hill County do not have a trash collection service and must haul their garbage to the landfill or one of our remote sites. Most of these sites are owned by Hill County and are considered public land. My office has received many calls over the past few years concerning the upkeep of these sites. It seems that there are a few citizens in Hill County who feel that they can dump their trash on the dirt pad instead of in the large dumpsters. This creates a...
The Pamville News editor is out with a phlegm-based illness this week kindly leaving us Pamville reporters free to tell you how we feel about this week's news. - Our first news item is a backhanded tip of the hat to the Pamville editor's upbringing. The Associated Press reports that a group of Pennsylvania eighth-graders were taken to a Hooters restaurant for lunch on their let's-toss-out-the-books-and-burn-off-the-last-few-days-of-class field trip. The article didn't say if...
