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Pumpkins 2011

Here is a nice summary of the holiday, All Hallows Eve, most associated with pumpkins, presumably because they become ripe and available about this time of the year. I found these in front of (more…)

I take the pulse of Grand Avenue regularly as it is probably a better indicator of how much life there is lingering about in this community. It is as busy as ever, now with occasional necessary left turn lanes and otherwise 4 lanes zipping up and down. The signs, this one on 13th and Grand, usually tell a tale. This one can be read as unusually long-lasting good will for what our Big Sky All-Stars were able to do this year in Little League Baseball: which is to go all the way to the championship national game in South Williamsport. Not bad for ordinary kids, huh? Gas prices remain high, though with inflation I suppose $3 gas is the same as 30 cent gas when we were kids. Is that the trees turning color already in late September or the natural color of the leaves this time of the year?

September Interim Meeting Update- By Representative Matt Rosedale

 After the regular session of the 62^nd Legislature concluded, I was selected to serve on the Education and Local Government Interim Committee. As I had stated at the time, after each meeting I would be giving a report on the business that had been conducted.

     With the housing demand in (more…)

From Conservative Cartoon of the Day, TownHall.com

Mitt Romney today, in one of his major speeches yet, unveiled his ideas that will spur jobs and the economic growth of America.  In his speeh, Mitt Romney framed his economic plan Tuesday as a job creator for middle-class America while charging that President Obama, days before he is to outline his own plan, “doesn’t have a clue what to do.”

Speaking at a trucking company in North Las Vegas, Nev., Romney said Obama is “not a bad guy,” but pitching stale ideas that have failed to turn around the struggling economy.

“President Obama’s strategy is a pay-phone strategy and we’re in a smartphone world,” Romney said. “What he’s doing is taking quarters and stuffing them into the pay phone … [and he] can’t figure out why it’s not working. It’s not connected anymore, Mr. President!”

Romney’s prescription for the country’s ailing economy includes (more…)

Our heroes from the Big Sky Little League, finally returned home, after winning their District and the State play-off, then taking all the marbles at the Regional in San Bernardino CA, then flying to South Williamsport to represent the Northwest Region—and all of us small town folk in flyover country—of the USA in the Little League World Series.

They won three games at the LLWS including a dramatic 1-0 extra-inning game with Huntington Beach CA. Ben Askelson hit the winning walk-off home run leading off the bottom of the 7th. Huntington Beach came back to win their 2nd game and went on to (more…)