Who’s gonna pay?

Hoo Boy, I love’s me a City Council Candidate Forum! Them’s candidates just say the dumbest dandiest of things.
Take Kathy Greathouse, candidate to replace Marilyn Marler in Ward 6, who was explaining her dislike of SID’s and other maintenance districts. Last night, Kathy said, “It’s just a tax to cover what [...]

Whiners

It happens every time properties are re-assessed for their worth – wealthy landowners complain it is unfair. For some reason, it made front page of today’s Missoulian.
In a fine piece of puff journalism, we learn of poor poor Donald and Georgia Forney who are worried about whether the government is going to take [...]

40,000 IOUs

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Clouded behind the health-insurance debate this week was the announcement by the country’s highest military officer that we need to send more troops to Afghanistan. Surprisingly, I didn’t hear a chorus of fiscal conservatives bemoaning the fact that we will need to borrow trillions more dollars to do so.
While Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman [...]

Who pays?

Looks like some of the many sidewalk and road construction activities are coming to an end for this summer. I can hear the cheers from the bleachers! Certainly our patience for detours, dust, and dead-ends has been tested to breaking point. We’ll all benefit from the safer sidewalks, roadways, [...]