Montana Quiz

June 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

Eight questions to see if you know some basic stuff about Montana!
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Remember a few weeks ago there was an entry about blogs in small Montana towns? Emilie told us about the Yahoo! 360 blog devoted to news in Eastern Montana, and now the folks “over there” could use some help:
There’s all kinds of things of exciting things happening in Eastern Montana..from airshows to the millions of [...]

Singles In Montana

June 23, 2007 | 3 Comments

Over at Dustbury there’s a map that illustrates where there are more boys than girls, and vice-versa, across America. There are only two communities in Montana that show up on the map. It looks like Billings has more single gals than single guys, but over on the far side of Montana, there appears to [...]

The Miss Montana 2007 Pageant is going on right now in Glendive. Young ladies from all corners of Montana are competing: Billings, Plentywood, Great Falls, Frenchtown, Dillon, Miles City, Lambert, and more. Here’s a list of all previous Miss Montana winners.
And did you know that Miss Montana 2006, Christie Hageman, has a blog? She documents [...]

While conditions remain good in Montana, winter wheat prices are closing in on $6.00 a bushel, having rallied almost $1.00 a 60-lb. bushel in the last two weeks. The immediate factor is the heavy rains that are delaying the harvest, and may be damaging the Kansas and nearby winter wheat crops as these crops remain [...]

Today, Tuesday, June 12, the Environmental Working Group has made the records available of which individuals in Montana, and in all the other states, are receiving farm subsidy payments.
Until last year, the names of the individuals that received farm subsidy payments were concealed behind farming companies and other ownership structures, but on a new set [...]

In a guest opinion in the Friday, June 8, Billings Gazette, Noah Chertkoff, the Reform student rabbi at Congregation Beth Aaron in Billings, answers others who, in their prior guest opinions, ” … claim that Jews control the government or the media … “.

Two items in the news regarding part-time Montana resident David Letterman: first, the man who was sent to prison for concocting a scheme to kidnap Letterman’s baby son and bilking Dave out of cash escaped from jail a few days ago, and is still on the loose. Second, the free Willie Nelson concert in Choteau [...]

On the “Small Town, Long Streets” podcast the other night, there was a discussion of the size of the various blogging communities in Montana. There was agreement that the large towns in Montana are well-represented – Billings, Missoula, Great Falls, etc – and most of us can think of at least several “name brand” bloggers [...]

In The Air Tonight

June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment

Tonight: “Small Town, Long Streets,” the mtpolitics.net podcast! Craig will be live tonight, and among the topics to be discussed: the very topical hot-button Snyder Drug situation; the Presidential candidates; and Craig’s Pokemans (he will show you them). If you would like to participate, you can call, e-mail, or IM – and really, we [...]

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