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		<title>Why I&#8217;m runing for Montana Governor in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those interested in Montana&#8217;s Governors Race, the following are excerpts from the candidates that are running for Governor in the 2012 November Elections.  As Governor Brian Schweitzer is termed out, Montana will have a new Governor come 2013.  Who will it be?  Here&#8217;s a chance for you to get to know the candidates a bit.     Steve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201201230958/why-im-runing-for-montana-governor-2012/</link>
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		<title>Montana Speaker of the House &#8211; Mike Milburn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year Everyone. Here is some information to help put into perspective what the latest revenue estimate really means. When we left the session the budget was structurally balanced but became unbalanced with the Governor’s vetoes, placing the burden of this deficit onto the next legislature. The attached information explains why the higher than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201201172322/montana-speaker-of-the-house-mike-milburn-2/</link>
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		<title>Montana and Montana State Advance in NCAA Football</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montana&#8217;s two college football teams, Bobcats and Griz, have advanced in the NCAA 2011 playoffs this weekend against University of New Hampshire and Central Arkansas.  The State of Montana will be in the spotlight again as when the Billings Big Sky Little League team advanced in the Little League World Series .  Montana State Bobcats:   The Montana State Bobcats had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201112041013/montana-and-montana-state-advance-in-ncaa-football/</link>
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		<title>MITT ROMNEY ANNOUNCES MONTANA FINANCE LEADERSHIP TEAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Romney Press Office December 1, 2011 857-288-3610 Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced his Montana State Finance leadership team.  “I am proud to announce my Montana State Finance leadership team,” said Mitt Romney. “With their help, we will be able to defeat President Obama next November and get our country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201112011932/mitt-romney-announces-montana-finance-leadership-team/</link>
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		<title>77 Days in September by Ray Gorham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update:  Today (Jan 27, 2012), the electronic book 77 Days in September by Ray Gorham has now passed 5,000 copies sold.  It&#8217;s only available on amazon and keeps breaking records.  It&#8217;s not even in hardcopy yet.  The interesting part is that a publisher has not even pounced on the book yet.  People and readers just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201111071219/77-days-in-september-by-ray-gorham-2/</link>
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		<title>Eggs Away!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go Here for some funny stuff.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201110231556/eggs-away/</link>
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		<title>Must Be Getting Close To Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this at CostCo a few days ago. They will probably be all out of these by the time it gets closer to Christmas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201110202115/must-be-getting-close-to-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Montana vs United States &#8211; Average Wages per Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For those interested in the Average Annual Real Wages Per Job, MSU has an interesting graph that you might want to take a look at comparing Montana to the rest of the United States. Here&#8217;s the link for the whole report but the graph was a little telling.  The Document has 3 volumes that give an overview of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201110061947/2346/</link>
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		<title>Political Humor &#8211; For Montanan Cowboys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a friend sent this to me.  I had to chuckle,  thought I&#8217;d share, though I feel the majority of Representatives, Senators,  and Congressman are working for Montana.  Enjoy   A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201110032012/political-humor-for-montanan-cowboys/</link>
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		<title>Pipeline Project important to State of Montana and Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday September 27, I attended a public meeting at the Dawson Community College. The Department of the State is conducting meetings over a six state area to gather public comment about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The project as proposed , will be 1700 miles long and run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201110021813/pipeline-project-important-to-state-of-montana-and-nation/</link>
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		<title>Pumpkins Are Not Cantaloupes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Albertson&#8217;s on Grand and Rehberg. Bales of straw also available.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201109281339/pumpkins-are-not-cantaloupes/</link>
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		<title>Tempus fugit but some things are constant: Still Celebrating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201109211530/tempus-fugit-but-some-things-are-constant/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Matt Rosendale Reports From Interim Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September Interim Meeting Update- By Representative Matt Rosedale  After the regular session of the 62nd 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201109201111/rep-matt-rosendale-reports-from-interim-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Government Job Creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Conservative Cartoon of the Day, TownHall.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/enjoy/201109151044/government-job-creation/</link>
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		<title>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Job Analogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201109061650/mitt-romneys-job-analogy/</link>
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		<title>Big Deal at Dehler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201109041804/big-deal-at-dehler/</link>
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		<title>Montana Little League Advances to US Championship Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montana has been in the national spotlight thanks to the Big Sky Little League Team that won yet another unexpected game against the Huntington Beach team.  Montana&#8217;s record is now 3-0 in the Little League World Series in Willaimsport, PA. Ben Askelson hit a homerrun to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning and send [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201108242302/montana-little-league-advances-to-us-championship-game/</link>
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		<title>MORE RESIDENTS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FLOODING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to Yellowstone County, there have been other counties that are eligible for FEMA&#8217;s assistance thoughout Montana and the following is the info.  News Release:   HELENA, Mont. – The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that 15 additional counties and one reservation are now eligible for FEMA&#8217;s Individual Assistance to help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201108241439/more-residents-eligible-to-receive-disaster-assistance-for-flooding/</link>
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		<title>What is wrong with this picture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader  Lawrence F. Cafero, Jr. (pictured standing far right) speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)  The guy sitting in the row in front of these two is on  Facebook and the guy behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201108232347/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture/</link>
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		<title>Montana Grizzlies 2011 Football Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University of  Montana:  Missoula, MT &#8212;-2011 Football Schedule below&#8212;&#8211;  All 11 regular-season football games for the University of Montana Grizzlies will once again be televised this year,  according to UM Director of Athletics Jim O&#8217;Day. As has been the case in previous years, Montana&#8217;s eight Big Sky Conference games will be televised by KPAX-TV of Missoula [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/travel/201108212320/montana-grizzlies-football-schedule-2011/</link>
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		<title>Last Column for 49 Year Journalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Charley Reese&#8217;s final column      He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201108210011/last-column-for-49-year-journalist/</link>
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		<title>Montana Little League Team Wins Debut at World Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those Montana sports fans out there, Montana isn&#8217;t known for being involved in the Little League World Series so this post reflects the good representation that the Big Sky Little League team from Billings completed yesterday in Pennsylvania with a 6-4 win over South Dakota.  Now, I&#8217;m not one to get into little league [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201108190347/montana-little-league-team-wins-first-round-at-world-series/</link>
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		<title>Stop Coddling the Super-Rich &#8211;   Op-Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an Op-Ed piece sent to the New York Times By WARREN E. BUFFETT.  Enjoy!!   Unique perspective from the Super-Rich Published: August 14, 2011 While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201108182142/stop-coddling-the-super-rich-op-ed/</link>
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		<title>Here Comes the Judge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As seen from the sidewalk alongside Stella&#8217;s. Boy, what a location for the shakers and the movers. Things are moving along downtown as the new Federal Courthouse takes shape. I think the architecture has an appeal that the old one never did, and still doesn&#8217;t. I hope they knock it down.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/politics/201108021808/here-comes-the-judge/</link>
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		<title>Yellowstone River Oil Cleanup Perspective from Commissioner John Oslund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, the Silvertip pipeline inexplicably ruptured, spilling up to 1,000 barrels of crude in the Yellowstone River. In the days that followed, scores of landowners who own property on the Yellowstone wondered whether its oil-stained banks could ever be restored. We wondered whether the company responsible for it would shirk its responsibility, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.montanastrailhead.com/news/201107190607/yellowstone-river-oil-cleanup-perspective-from-commissioner-john-oslund/</link>
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