HELENA—After a whirlwind, two-day special legislative session this week, it’s time to assess the winners and losers. Continue Reading →
Montana
In special session’s wake, picking winners and losers
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Last words, maybe, and a few thanks from Last Best News
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I was planning to ride off into the sunset today, but if I may appropriate an observation by Benjamin Franklin, it looks as though I might be heading in the direction of the rising sun.
In the week since I announced that Last Best News would cease publication today, I have heard so many expressions of interest in reviving it in some shape or form, with or without my continued involvement, that it appears likely that this independent online newspaper will live on.
Montana
Hardin could lose coal-fired power plant early in 2018
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated.
A Hardin coal-fired power plant with 30 employees and an annual payroll of $3 million could be shut down as early as the first quarter of 2018, according to the company that owns it.
In an Oct. 5 letter to the Montana Public Service Commission, Gary Arneson, vice president of operations for Rocky Mountain Power, said the company “has decided to exit the Hardin Generating Station.” Continue Reading →
Billings
Speaker sketches history of Latinos in U.S., Montana
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Don’t blame Bridget Kevane if her talk on “Latino America, Latino Montana” was a little short on details.
Kevane, associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University, addressed her very broad topic in just over an hour Thursday as part of the High Noon lecture series at the Western Heritage Center in downtown Billings. Continue Reading →
Montana
Governor likely to veto furloughs, pans prison deal
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HELENA—Gov. Steve Bullock said Thursday he expects to veto a bill passed in the special legislative session directing the executive branch of state government to furlough certain employees to save $15 million over the next two years.
Hours after the Legislature adjourned, the Democratic governor told reporters that House Bill 8, sponsored by Rep. Barry Usher, R-Billings, was riddled with legal problems and “was pretty half-baked and in many respects, fairly silly.” Continue Reading →
Montana
At session’s end, both sides claiming partial victory
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HELENA—Everyone was claiming at least a partial victory Thursday after the conclusion of a special legislative session called to close a $227 million state general-fund budget and revenue shortfall
The House adjourned at 1:04 a.m., Thursday with the Senate concluding at 12:36 a.m. to wrap up a two-day special session. Continue Reading →
Billings
Corrections names new warden for Women’s Prison
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HELENA–Montana Department of Corrections has named a new warden for the Montana Women’s Prison in Billings.
Department Director Reginald D. Michael announced Thursday that Jennie Hansen, the eastern region bureau chief for the Probation and Parole Division, will be the new warden. Continue Reading →
Montana
Bullock, GOP agree on budget fix, special session over
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Editor’s note: This story has been superseded by a later, expanded story, which you can read by clicking here.
HELENA — The Montana House and Senate adjourned the special legislative session early Thursday after Republican leaders and Gov. Steve Bullock agreed on a plan to fill the state budget and revenue gap with $231 million in cuts, transfers and other funds. Continue Reading →
Billings
Billings soccer clubs merge, big changes in the works
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Big changes are sweeping the Billings soccer community.
Just a few months after Magic City Soccer hired Kyle Bakas, as its first-ever full-time executive director, Magic City merged with Edge Soccer Academy to form a new organization, Billings United Soccer Club. Continue Reading →
Montana
Pieces of puzzle still missing, session’s end up in the air
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HELENA—It was unclear Wednesday night when Montana’s special legislative would end.
By nearly 8 p.m., several pieces of the puzzles necessary to raise the money needed to bring the session to a close remained up in the air. Continue Reading →
