Editorial Board Calls Out GOP for Wasting Session On Frivolous Bills

The Missoulian’s editorial board today excoriates the Montana Legislature for focusing on social issues and frivolous, unconstitutional bills instead of focusing on jobs.

Exactly how do these proposals relate to jobs and Montana’s still-struggling economy? For that matter, why are

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Montana Republicans Shaft Veterans, Put 100 Jobs at Risk

The next time your friendly neighborhood Republican accuses Democrats of not supporting our troops, please remind them of the budget vote in the Joint Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee last week.

Not a single Dem voted for the motion

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Facebook, Google, Microsoft to Participate in Tester’s Missoula Jobs Workshop

How cool is this? Three of the world’s most successful internet companies are returning to Montana to participate in Senator Jon Tester’s next Small Business Opportunity Workshop on February 23 in Missoula.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft representatives will be on …

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Witless People Who Are Dangerously Powerful

Reporters are no doubt eagerly swarming around this weekend’s TEA Party Convention in Helena in hopes that somebody says something crazy.  Well, I see no problems with this plan.  But it will probably just end up being 13 white men …

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So Stupid

Creepy photo of Derek Skees with a creepy sign and a woman in a creepy mask.Let’s face it.  Sometimes politicians do stupid things.  And yesterday, Derek Skees, R-TEA-Whitefish Kalispell, may have won first prize in this category with his bills to to kill green energy jobs.

In 2004 there was not a single megawatt …

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Latest on the forest jobs bill

Matthew Koehler and Problembear, who have been following this bill since the beginning, left some interesting comments when I asked what they though of the latest opinion piece on the bill on NewWest.   What are others hearing?

Koehler:…

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