Montana- Least Obese?/ Heroin/ Right of Way

Missoulian: Here's the skinny: Montana is nation's least obese state, but why?
Montana Community Health Data. These reports have data from 2009.
Region 1 (Eastern) – Phillips, Valley, Daniels, Sheridan, Roosevelt, Richland, McCone, Garfield, Prairie, Dawson, Wibaux, Rosebud, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Carter, and Treasure
Region 2 (North Central) – Glacier, Toole, Liberty, Hill, Blaine, Pondera, Teton, Chouteau, and Cascade
Region 3 (South Central) – Judith Basin, Fergus, Petroleum, Wheatland, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Sweet Grass, Stillwater, Yellowstone, Big Horn, and Carbon
Region 4 (Southwest) – Lewis and Clark, Granite, Powell, Deer Lodge, Jefferson, Broadwater, Meagher, Silver Bow, Gallatin, Park, Madison, and Beaverhead>
Region 5 (Northwest) – Lincoln, Flathead, Sanders, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, and Ravalli

More information on health issues in Montana can be found in The State of the State’s Health, 2013 report.

Missoulian:  Holder:Heroin an 'urgent public health crisis'
Attorney General Holder, Calling Rise in Heroin Overdoses ‘Urgent Public Health Crisis,’ Vows Mix of Enforcement, Treatment
“Calling the rise in overdose deaths from heroin and other prescription pain-killers an “urgent public health crisis,” Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Monday that the Justice Department would combat the epidemic through a mix of enforcement and treatment efforts.”

Missoulian: Court rules for landowner in trail dispute
Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States

“Congress passed the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 to provide railroad companies “right[s] of way through the public lands of the United States,” 43 U. S. C. §934. One such right of way, obtained by a railroad in 1908, crosses land that the United States conveyed to the Brandt family in a 1976 land patent. That patent stated, as relevant here, that the land was granted subject to the railroad’s rights in the 1875 Act right of way, but it did not specify what would occur if the railroad later relinquished those rights. Years later, a successor railroad abandoned the right of way with federal approval. The Government then sought a judicial declaration of abandonment and an order quieting title in the United States to the abandoned right of way, including the stretch that crossed the land conveyed in the Brandt patent. Petitioners contested the claim, asserting that the right of way was a mere easement that was extinguished when the railroad abandoned it, so that Brandt now enjoys full title to his land without the burden of the easement . The Government countered that the 1875 Act granted the railroad something more than a mere easement, and that the United States retained a reversionary interest in that land once the railroad abandoned it. The District Court granted

summary judgment to the Government and quieted title in the United States to the right of way.

The Tenth Circuit affirmed.”