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I remember hearing several months ago that “Prairie Home Companion” would be coming to Missoula in September, and as I was driving around town this evening, I stumbled across the live broadcast on KGPR. I only caught a few minutes of it, but that little bit was indeed entertaining. There was a discussion [...]

Via MeFi comes an interesting site that shows how many staffers our elected officials have on their payroll, and how much money they were paid. For instance, here’s Representative Dennis Rehberg’s staff directory. And on the Senate side: Max Baucus and Conrad Burns.

Well, I really don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but I installed a Forums Section here on Big Sky Blog. I think that if you’re already a registered user of Big Sky Blog, then you are already registered on the Forums. I created a few broad forum areas: Politics, [...]

Just a quick roundup of a few noteworthy things in the Big Sky Blogosphere: first up, Justin over at Missoula.net is has some interesting political entries, including the results of an online poll regarding the Senate race. Courtney is still looking for some help with her nifty Montana History blog – any volunteers? [...]

Event: Kalispell Blogger Bash
When: October 14th (though I told Zen, it was the 15th *slaps self*)
Where: MacKenzie River Pizza
Time to be decided later…
If you have more questions or anything, contact me at jen.parabellum@gmail.com and put Blogger Bash in the subject line. If you plan on coming on a little vacation, Motel 6 is only 35.99-40.00 [...]

If you enjoy games, then you might want to head to Helena on October 7 to attend the Montana Game Fair, held at Carroll College. Here’s a list of events. One of the role-playing games is called “The King’s Men,” which is introduced thusly: “An invading orc army is coming in 10 days they [...]

MSU and Bozeman police are investigating reports of a sexual assault and an attempted sexual assault that occurred early on Saturday, Sept. 9, both on and near the MSU campus.
MSU police chief Robert Putzke said the first incident occurred at about 5 a.m. in the 400 block of West Garfield Street when a man entered [...]

In the last 6 weeks, the wholesale price of gasoline has declined 79c/gallon, that’s 34% off, from its early August peak:
At the end of today’s (Tuesday, September 12) trading, wholesale prices (gasoline and heating oil are in $/gallon, combined product value, crack spread and crude oil are in $/42-gallon barrel and natural gas is in [...]

In Ferndale, a lone firefighter, will conduct a lone vigil on MT 209, by once again, holding an American flag. While in Bigfork, MT – firefighters will be conducting one hour shifts.

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