Our View: Hi-Line darts and laurels

Laurel

The annual atlatl competition at the Wahkpa Chu'gn buffalo jump in Havre was held again last weekend. It provided an opportunity for area residents, especially young people, to see this amazing site that tells of daily life and the rich history of Native groups that inhabited this area over the last 2,000 years. It is also a reminder for people of the importance of the buffalo jump to this area — both for the area economy and as a matter of historical preservation. John and Anna Brumley and the cadre of volunteers who have helped them are owed a big debt of gratitude from the Havre community.

Dart

Departed Chancellor Jim Limbaugh will be paid his salary through June — to the tune of $162,419 — until June 30. Certainly Limbaugh is entitled to some severance under his contract. Apparently the departure was not entirely amicable, but Limbaugh did resign. Few of the taxpayers who will pay for Limbaugh's farewell gift would have the same deal if they left their job.

Laurel

Havre firefighters collected nearly $8,400 in the annual Fill the Boot campaign last week. The funds will go to the fight against against muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophy is a terrible disease, and we should always be willing to do what we can to help fight it. But it means a little more because the Kallenberger family of Havre has two youngsters with the disease. Thanks to the firefighters for their work.

Dart

Montanans for Community Development. That sounds like a group looking to improve the area's economy. Not at all. The group's job is to get rid of the remaining campaign finance rules that were not tossed out by the horrid Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The group has filed a lawsuit to accomplish its goals. We wish them all the bad luck in the world in their effort to have the laws declared unconstitutional.