State Soil/ MT State Budget

Missoulian: Dirty politics: Bozeman kids fight for state soil at Legislature
SB 176: Add state soil as a new state symbol

Missoulian: Divided Montana House passes $4B state budget
HB 2: General Appropriations Act

Publishing Meetings/ Medical Marijuana/ Medicaid Expansion/ Glacier NP/ Smith River Bears/ Nuclear Talks

Missoulian: Legislature passes bill requiring boards to publish meetings
SB 124: Legislature passes bill requiring boards to publish meetings

Missoulian: Billings senator introducing bill to amend strict 2011 medical marijuana law
SB 406: Generally revise medical marijuana laws

Missoulian: New GOP bill to expand Medicaid in Montana faces hurdles
SB 405:  Establish the Montana Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership Act

Missoulian: 27 reasons to follow Glacier National Park on Instagram
Instagram: glaciernps

Missoulian: Food storage mandatory at Smith River State Park in 2016
Be Bear Aware
“The Smith River flows through black bear habitat and there is a history of bear activity in and around the boat camps. Floaters need to be diligent about bear safety including proper storage of food, garbage and other attractants to minimize human-black bear conflicts for not only public safety, but also for the well being of area black bears.”

MIssoulian: Draft nuclear deal would cap Iran's uranium centrifuges at 6,000 for decade or more
Extension of Iran Nuclear Talks
 “This effort remains as intense as it is important, and we have come a long way in a short period of time. Less than a year ago, President Obama and Iranian President Rouhani spoke for the first time to try to usher in a new diplomatic moment, and I held the first bilateral meeting between a Secretary of State and an Iranian Foreign Minister in more than three decades.”
Briefing on Iran Nuclear Negotiations

State Employees/ Drug Screening & Welfare/ Broadband Expansion/ Banning Abortion by Telemedicine/ Net Neutrality

Missoulian: Crowd turns out to testify in favor of raises for Montana state workers
House Appropriations 3/16/2015
HB 13:   State Employee Pay Plan

Missoulian: Senate panel kills bill to require drug screening for welfare applicants
HB 200: Require drug screening & testing for temp assistance for needy families program

Missoulian:  Lawmakers consider broadband expansion
HB 14: Creating broadband development fund through bonding

Missoulian: House endorses bill to ban abortions by telemedicine
HB 587: Requiring physical presence of practitioners when performing abortion services

Missoulian: Lawmakers weigh in on 'net neutrality'
FCC: Process and Transparency
“We are here today to examine the FCC’s rulemaking process and the agency’s commitment to transparency. Three weeks ago, the FCC approved new rules that will dramatically increase regulation of the internet. The problem is Americans only got a chance to read them last week.”

Chairman Wheeler Before the Committee on Oversight and Govt. Reform

Open Internet

Flaws in Death Master File

Missoulian: Flawed Social Security data say 6.5M in US reach age 112
Examining Federal Improper Payments and Errors in the Death Master File
Death Master File Online