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Tea Parties are spreading like wildfire across the nation, but I haven’t heard of any in Montana – yet. But get ready: there are several Tea Parties planned in Montana for April 15, according to Tax Day Tea Party.

The following is a list of CONFIRMED Tea Party Tax Revolts planned within the state of Montana. Please note that we ONLY list events happening on April 15th.

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City: Billings
When: April 15, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: US POST OFFICE on 27th Street, Just off of I 90
Contact: EMAIL
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City: Bozeman
When: April 15, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Where: Downtown Bozeman, TBA
Phone: 406.579.1496
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City: Kalispell
When: April 15, TBA
Where: Downtown Kalispell, TBA
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City: Missoula
When: April 15, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Where: The Streets of Missoula, TBA
Other Info:http://www.just-citizens.com/taxdayteaparty

I’m sure that there will be other Tea Parties after April 15th…

MORE: news stories about Montana Tea Parties are gaining steam…

MONTANA’S (thx bob! how did i turn that into alaska?!) most famous part-time resident, David Letterman, finally tied the knot! He got married to his long-time girlfriend (and mother of their 5-year old boy) Regina Lasko, and they did it right in Choteau (near his ranch). The official who married them was Teton County Justice Of The Peace JL “Pete” Howard. I guess after 23 years of dating and one child, Dave was finally ready for a commitment :-)

Congratulations to David & Regina Letterman! ALSO: check out this nifty look at Choteau!

Previous Letterman/Montana tidbits: Cold Hard Cash on Letterman show; Tim Montana on Letterman show; and other Letterman news.

This is horrible: a plane has crashed in Butte, killing 17 people according to initial reports. First the Bozeman explosion, then the Whitehall fire, and now this…check out KXLF for the latest news.

UPDATE: 14 people – including 7 children – have died in the crash. And in some unusual naming coincidences: the Napa Valley Register reported on its Web site late Sunday that a family of five from St. Helena, California, was among the victims. And the town of Oroville, where the plane departed from before crashing in Butte, is located in Butte County, California. Weird.

Until I moved to Montana, I had no idea that the town of Butte had such a wild and storied history. I also didn’t know that it was world-famous for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day celebration(s). Turns out that Butte has a large population of Irish descendants, and there are several Irish pubs to keep the spirit of St Patty’s Day alive & well all year long. It’s even been said that Butte is Ireland’s “Fifth Province,” so to speak:

Butte, Montana is the city the Irish would have built if the English had said build a city of your own design and consider money to be no object…(snip)…by 1900 Butte had 12,000 residents of Irish descent in a population of 47,635. A quarter of the population was Irish, a higher percentage than any other American city at the turn of the last century, including Boston.

And check this out: the folks at KXLF are doing a live stream from the legendary M&M Bar in Butte!

Huge explosion in downtown Bozeman; here’s pix from KBZK.