Hit me with your best shot!

Today’s Missoulian bags on the Mayor’s budget. Of course, he’s an easy target and I’m sure he can take it.
But, out of a $42.7 million budget, the Missoulian editorial team could only find two small things to trim – $20,000 for a lobbyist in Helena, and a request that City Council members agree [...]

The race to the bottom

This is how much we are investing in the future leaders of our state:
Average education and related expenses per FTE student
at public research institutions by state, 2006
(Source: The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability)
The key figures to look at are the ones in black at the end of each [...]

Republicans dissing public servants

As opined in the Wall Street Journal, all federal worker are apparently out to scam the system! Thomas Frank finds the conservative movement believing that:
The government and its bureaucrats are ever a malign force — jealous, power-hungry and greedy.
Pinch me if I didn’t think he was describing the CEO’s and financial [...]