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- Slide over snowmobiles, ATVs gain winter traction Appleton Post Crescent, USA - Dec 1, 2006 three years and the four-wheeled sport is growing steadily, said Dennis Catlin, sales manager at Appleton Powersports, which sells both ATVs and snowmobiles. |
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- Jury deliberations set to begin in wrongful death lawsuit filed for Olesky (Naples Daily News)A Collier County jury will begin deliberations today in a medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Ann Olesky, an esteemed civic leader in Immokalee before her death June 13, 2004, six days after heart surgery. Merrillville sinus [...] |
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- Adirondack Gadabout: Outdoor sporting traditions under attack Adirondack Daily Enterprise, NY - Dec 8, 2006 that trappers have no right to dictate how state land is used, yet she Increasingly, as snowmobile and ATV use on state lands is restricted, access for |
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- Little Miami/Career Center senior dies in ATV accident Dayton Daily News (subscription), OH - Nov 13, 2006 Stephen Stair, 17, was ejected off a 2004 Yamaha ATV at approximately 5:40 pm Friday near Norris Lake in Tennessee, said Campbell County Sheriff Gary Perkins. |
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- Medical Malpractice Market in W. Va. Improves Insurance Journal, CA - Nov 15, 2006 After the Legislature revised the laws, the number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed Dr. Richard Lindsay, a physician and lawyer, said the Legislature’s |
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- By Betty Wolynak The public has many misconceptions about the modern food system. Many of those misconceptions have been developed by authors with fine intentions, but a serious lack of understanding. Unfortunately, once a so-called “fact” is in print, it is often repeated endlessly and used to build other “facts.” Take for example, the statement Frances Moore Lappé made in Diet for a Small Planet published in the early 70s, that it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef. This “fact” occurs in other books critical of beef production, many textbooks, environmental education curricula and is used as the basis for other authors to create their own “facts. |
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- Believe it or not, the news about global warming isn't all bad. Keep an open mind as The 2007 Old Farmer's Almanac lists some of the possible benefits warmer weather will have on our environment. Melting glaciers, rising oceans, increasing storms: The future, with global warming, looks bleak. There certainly are severe problems associated with the present warming trend, but there are also some significant benefits. |
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- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced several measures to help small businesses secure more federal government contracts. The centerpiece of SBA’s efforts is a new regulation requiring small businesses to recertify their size status on long-term contracts when a contract option is exercised, when a small business is purchased by or merged with another business or at the end of the first five years of a contract. “This regulation will go a long way toward ensuring that contract awards get in the hands of small business owners, federal agencies get the proper credit toward their small business contracting goals and small business contract awards are fairly and accurately reported,” said SBA Administrator Steven C. |
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- The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have pursued management of the National Bison Range for the past 12 years. It’s no secret the Tribes view the range, which is located in the heart of the reservation, as a cherished and direct connection to the recent past when two tribal members started the herd here when the bison were threatened with extinction. |
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- Montana is among the top five states with the highest proportion of people with high school diplomas, according to a recent report. Adults age 18 and older with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $51,554 in 2004, while those with a high school diploma earned $28,645, according to new tabulations released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those without a high school diploma earned an average of $19,169. |
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- Hardy Construction of Billings has secured the construction contract for the new $9 million Health Sciences and General Education Building at the Montana State University Billings College of Technology. The 47,500 square-foot facility will be located on the newly acquired six-acre site between Shiloh Road and the College of Technology. It is expected to be completed by Janaury 2008. The $9 million was allocated by the 2005 Legislature through House Bill 540, the state’s bonding program. The bill provided more than $40 million in infrastructure developments for the Montana University System. |
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- We hear a lot about problems of urban sprawl, but urban sprawl isn’t nearly the problem it is purported to be, according to an Alumni Distinguished Professor at Clemson University. While there’s been little research to identify sprawl, Daniel K. Benjamin, reported on one recent study, in an article in the PERC Reports, that concludes that while cities are growing, they are no less compact than they have been in the past. In fact, Benjamin said that the recent research indicated that “there is less new sprawl in cities that are growing rapidly.” |
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- Forming a unique new alliance, CHS Inc. -- the company that owns Cenex -- has purchased a portion of Mountain Mudd, LLC, a Billings specialty coffee company that was founded 13 years ago by Dennis and Brenda Burkhartsmeier. The joint venture is a strategic move that brings benefits to both companies. For the chain of some 1,000 convenience stores owned by CHS, it is an opportunity to expand retail sales with the outdoor placement of Mountain Mudd specialty coffee kiosks, without detracting from inside sales. Placing Mountain Mudd kiosks on CHS properties does not preclude the company from locating them elsewhere. |
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- If you are a business owner be sure to set aside the date for the next evening of fun and socializing with other business owners. The next meeting of the Business Owners Social Society (BOSS) will be held on Friday, February 2. BOSS is an opportunity to simply enjoy dinner and get acquainted with other business owners. There are no membership fees, dues, committees, or any other commitments associated with BOSS, beyond enjoying the fellowship of other business owners. |
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- Montana is undergoing an “economic shakeup.” In a reversal of traditional trends, Eastern and rural counties are experiencing a greater rate of economic growth than are Western, urban counties. In fact, only one of the traditional high growth counties remains in the latest top ten counties, according to Paul Polzin in the recent issue of Montana Business Quarterly (Autumn 2006). Polzin is Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. Energy and natural resource-based industries are driving growth in non-farm labor income at such a high rate for counties like Fallon (11. |
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- By Webb Brown, President Montana Chamber of Commerce The Montana Family Business Program of MSU-Bozeman will join Business Days at the Capitol in January. Our Business Days event will be our first look at the 2007 Legislature, scheduled to begin January 3. We start with our Legislator Appreciation Reception and Banquet the evening of January 4 at the Helena Civic Center. The next morning features our traditional Eggs & Issues breakfast with legislative leadership at the Best Western Helena Great Northern Hotel at 7:30. |
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- A Livingston-based company, Montana Rib & Chop House has announced plans to build a fourth location in Billings near the Zoo Drive Interchange. Popular for its baby back ribs and steaks, the restaurant was founded in Livingston in 2001, by Burke Moran, who pulled up his Baton Rouge, Louisiana-roots to live in the scenic mountains of Montana. A second generation restaurateur, Moran knows his steaks and ribs, and quite naturally a little bit about Cajun, which haute cuisine gives distinctive spark to side dishes featured at Montana Rib & Chop House. |
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- By Evelyn Pyburn The community owes a big “Thank You!” to Marty Connell and the other investors of Kairos Development. The clean up of the old Pierce Packing Plant has been a huge public service for Billings – one that has passed far too quietly. The investors of Kairos have spent over $2 million to clean up what was surely the city’s most serious blighted spot – one that no one else wanted to touch. Yellowstone County Commissioners recently cancelled back taxes that had accrued against the property, marking the success of this cleanup operation. |
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- Montana Senator Max Baucus has helped secure more than $72 million in financing to jumpstart 34 new wind energy projects in Montana. “The winds of today will create the good-paying jobs of tomorrow,” Baucus said during a news conference in Billings on Friday. “This is about harnessing the wind – a clean, renewable resource -- to help us get more energy independent while powering our homes, Main Streets, and businesses.” The Internal Revenue Service has approved financing the projects through a new bonding program Baucus wrote into the Energy Policy Act of 2005. For the first time ever, Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, or CREBs, will let governmental and tax-exempt entities -- such as cities and rural electric cooperatives -- finance alternative energy projects at zero interest. |
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- The state Public Service Commission will host a roundtable discussion in Billings on Thursday, December 7, concerning developing energy resources and infrastructure in Montana. The roundtable meeting will begin at 8:00 am at Montana State University-Billings, Student Union Building, Lewis & Clark Room, 1500 University Drive. |
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- By Evelyn Pyburn While higher gas prices may have hurt at the pump when we were paying them as consumers, the wider profit margins are prompting ConocoPhillips to take a hard look at investing some of those earnings back into the Billings and Montana economy. Having just experienced a period of historic earnings, James J. Mulva, Chairman and CEO of Conoco Phillips, assured, "Our company puts everything we earn back into the company." And, right now, that means focusing on upgrading refineries, not least of which could be the Billings refinery. Mulva was in Billings this week for a town hall meeting. |
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- Environmental ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent. By Keith Lockitch The World Health Organization has announced that it will encourage the use of DDT to fight malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills a million people a year. This announcement is a positive development, but it is tragic that malaria was allowed to persist unchecked for so long. Though nearly eradicated decades ago, malaria has resurged with a vengeance because DDT, the most effective agent of mosquito control, had been essentially discarded—discarded based not on scientific concerns about its safety, but on environmental dogma. |
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