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Let’s make workplace safety a priority
A lot has been mentioned lately about the need to change the way we think about some things here in Montana. There have been a couple of editorials in the Missoulian concerning the affinity that far too many Montanans have for drinking and driving. Please bear with me while I add my 2 cen…
Nov 20, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Native fire regimes a must to return to ‘the way it was’
Thanks to Michael Jamison for his excellent article in the Oct. 25 Missoulian, “Tracking science,” about Cristine Eisenberg’s research on the complex ecology of wolves in the Northern Rockies. Dr. Eisenberg’s brilliant, painstaking work is revealing the unexpected ways in which th…
Nov 19, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Good call on Reserve Street: Lower speed limit by C.S. Porter the practical solution
The stretch of Reserve Street that passes by C.S. Porter Middle School hasn’t been a good one to speed through at the posted speed limit – 45 miles per hour – for some time. It is located near a busy intersection with traffic lights that require people to slow down in anticipation o…
Nov 19, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Florence-Carlton quashes free thinking of students
High schools are supposed to educate students in the basic subjects of reading, writing, mathematics and science. But teaching students to think for themselves? Not at Florence-Carlton High School. Administrators there have clamped down on student journalists, giving shaky justification f…
Nov 18, 2009 | 7:35 am | Loading…
Training for alcohol servers works: Don’t make state laws tougher on businesses
On Nov. 8 the Missoulian ran an editorial titled “Training can combat drunken driving.”
Nov 18, 2009 | 7:35 am | Loading…
Roadblocks undermine open records law
Nobody wants to pay the unreasonable fees often associated with public records requests in Montana – not news media, not regular residents and not even public officials themselves. The fact that these fees are often associated with equally unreasonable delays is a sign that the state ne…
Nov 17, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
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No woman, regardless of class, is immune to attacks
About two weeks into the Plain Dealer’s coverage of the Imperial Avenue murders in Cleveland, some women from more privileged neighborhoods began to complain about the coverage.
Nov 20, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Afghanistan troop decision must be made
WASHINGTON – The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose – and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.
Nov 19, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Image as icon: Doubts linger over authenticity of famous Capa photograph
NEW YORK – The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatan…
Nov 17, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
Playing field has been changed over abortion rights
BOSTON – It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death. Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean O’Malley took to his blog to defend himself from critics attacking him for presiding over the funeral of a pro-choice senator.
Nov 16, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
Saving Mother Earth, one clothesline at a time
My mom was an early environmentalist, and she didn’t even know it.
Nov 13, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
House bill won’t hold up to test
WASHINGTON – While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You’ve left the job half done.
Nov 12, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Some want you to believe all is lost when it comes to climate
WASHINGTON - Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives scary precision to t…
Nov 10, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
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