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Electric Vehicle Fees Jump Under MT Measure ButteNews.net The United States Postal Service will issue layoff notices to some of its workers later this month, ButteNews.net Montana gained a seat in the US House of Representatives, the census bureau reports. Montana lost a seat in 1990. ButteNews.net Optics not reality prevails in the Whitman-Biden fight over Michigans brutal COVID infection rate, the New York Times reports. April 7, 2021 As variants of the virus establish a foothold and govern...

Fed Grant to help MY refuge restore Wetlands, Bird Habitat ButteNews.net Officers who battled the criminal gang that attacked the US Capital on Jan. 6 werent given proper equipment, Roll Call reports. ButteNews.net There is an argument in the nations capital over the extent of extremism in the US military, Roll Call reports. ButteNews.net The United States Postal Service will issue layoff notices to some of its workers later this month, ButteNews.net Montana gained a seat in the US House of R...

Loan program helps Montanans with disabilities afford assistive tech ButteNews.net Officers who battled the criminal gang that attacked the US Capital on Jan. 6 werent given proper equipment, Roll Call reports. ButteNews.net There is an argument in the nations capital over the extent of extremism in the US military, Roll Call reports. ButteNews.net The United States Postal Service will issue layoff notices to some of its workers later this month, ButteNews.net Montana gained a seat in the US ...

Credit spiritofamerica/Adobe Stock Groups are urging Northwest leaders to act on U.S. Rep. Mike Simpsons infrastructure and Snake River dam proposal. The plan would breach the four lower Snake River dams to help salmon, whose numbers have dwindled for years. It aims to restore what American Rivers calls in a report out this week, "the most endangered river in the country." Julian Matthews, a Nez Perce tribal member and co-founder of the group Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, said the dam...

April 14, 2021 HELENA, Mont. - Most Montanans are opposed to a bill that would allow NorthWestern Energy to buy greater shares in units at the Colstrip power plant, according to a new survey. Commissioned by Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, the poll found 61% of respondents are against Senate Bill 379, which would reduce the Public Service Commissions role in regulating the monopoly utilitys purchase and could pass on costs of more than $700 to each ratepayer per year. "Legislat...

MT organization amplifies voices of disability communities ButteNews.net Optics not reality prevails in the Whitman-Biden fight over Michigans brutal COVID infection rate, the New York Times reports. April 7, 2021 As variants of the virus establish a foothold and government relaxes rules, cases of COVID-19 are once again on the rise, the New York Times reports. ButteNews.net Montanas legislature has to decide how to allocate $900 million in funds, part of a $3 billion dollar possible package f...

Project gets affordable legal aid to rural Montanans April 7, 2021 As variants of the virus establish a foothold and government relaxes rules, cases of COVID-19 are once again on the rise, the New York Times reports. ButteNews.net Montanas legislature has to decide how to allocate $900 million in funds, part of a $3 billion dollar possible package from The American Rescue Plan Act. The plan could expand broadband access in the state, MainStreetMontana.com reports. ButteNews.net A man and his s...

1:58 Young people in Boise have been holding rallies calling for action on climate change in recent years. Credit thauwald-pictures/Adobe Stock Chase Bank is receiving an April Fools greeting today from Boise youths, who are calling the institution out for its investment in fossil fuels. A recent report found JPMorgan Chase has financed $317 billion worth of coal, oil and gas projects since the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in 2016, the most of any bank. Thats prompted Extinction Rebe...

1:18 Continued education for older people helps keep their brains healthy, but also is a way to make new friends. Credit insta_photos/Adobe Stock A program designed as a source of continuing education for older Idahoans has a new function during the pandemic: combatting social isolation. New Knowledge Adventures is in its sixth year of offering classes to people age 50 and over. Because of COVID-19, its classes have moved online, said Carol Hourcade, who chairs the outreach committee for the or...

Credit Brocreative/Adobe Stock The latest COVID-19 relief package makes massive investments in child well-being.  "We have not seen funding levels that are included in this bill for the community-based child abuse prevention programs in the entire history of that program, which is over 30 years old," Jim McKay said. McKay, with the Childrens Trust Fund Alliance, says the programs provide resources for families, helping to prevent abuse and neglect. And its been a long time coming.  McKay, w...