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Montanans will have many opportunities to get involved in the activities of the 2011 Legislature, even from the comfort of their own homes.

Watch or Listen

Gavel-to-gavel coverage of House and Senate floor sessions will be broadcast online and on cable television stations statewide beginning Jan. 3, the first day of the 62nd session. Floor sessions generally begin at 1 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 8 a.m. most Saturdays. The broadcasts are also archived for later viewing.

Audio broadcasts of floor sessions and committee meetings also will be available online. To access the video and audio broadcasts, visit www.leg.mt.gov/broadcast. You’ll need RealPlayer software to view or listen to them. 

In addition to Internet broadcasts, the Legislature will broadcast its proceedings over cable television through (more…)

No room at the Inn

Nativity Scene at Mt Olive Lutheran Church. (more…)

And we have a little time to relax between Christmas and the New Year it might be helpful to think about important stuff like climate change etc. A really good place to look would be the blogprof, which is where I found the the graph located to the left. The only reason I show the graph and invite our gentle readers to have a gander at the website (more…)

The 62nd session of the Montana Legislature will convene at noon Monday, Jan. 3, in the State Capitol in Helena.
 
The first day of session generally is brief and ceremonial. New legislators will be sworn into office, and members of each chamber will officially elect their House and Senate leaders.
 
Much of the first week of the 2011 session will be (more…)

So as to finish the busy week with all sorts of meetings, work, family, ect; its no wonder many people are not convinced of the future because of so many different viewpoints, reasons and concerns. I came across this one email that said its for all politicians. Mind you of the many emails one can get in a span of one week. In fact, with the amount of emails one can receive, it’s not wonder that (more…)

Main Aisle CostCo, Billings MT

While doing errands on the weekend before Christmas we noted the highways and the parking lots filled to the brim with cars and trucks from all over Montana and Wyoming and a few from North Dakota too.

We managed to easily overfill a shopping cart at CostCo, which included a couple of electronic toys to interest our grandchildren, and perhaps not surprisingly, managed to break our single day record of spending in that splendid place.

It only took 15 minutes to get out of the parking lot.

Storage at CostCo

I like their no-nonsense way of storing the stuff they are going to sell us next week or next month and the great samples of some really good food. Keep up the good work dear friends at CostCo.

This is a good example of how a market system works. Both in theory and in (more…)

My Back Porch on 29 November

A big snow storm and a longer than usual cold spell dropped in sometime in late November 2010. The picture above was taken the day after the Sunday Nutcracker at the Alberta Bair Theatre. On the inside things looked (more…)