Rocky Boy votes 3-2 to support 4 for 2

The Chippewa Cree Business Committee on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation voted 3-2 Thursday to sign a letter urging Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley to meet with the U.S. Highway 2 Association, a local group which has been a longtime advocate of expanding Highway 2 into a four-lane route.

Business Committee members Teddy Russette III and Calvin Jilot voted against sending the letter. Fellow committee members Harlan Baker and Jody LaMere were not present.

Russette later said he voted against the letter because such an expansion, if it were to happen, would require the res...