Supreme Court Abortion/ Maya Angelou Post Office/ Aubrey McClendon

Missoulian: Deeply split Supreme Court wrestles with abortion case
Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Hellerstedt, Comm'r, TX DHS, et al. (15-274)

[Maya Angelou, award recipient, at the second annual Trumpet Awards Foundation gala, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994]. [Atlanta, Ga, 1994] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015649819. (Accessed March 03, 2016.)

Missoulian: Capitol Hill Buzz: Angelou post office turns controversial
H.R.3735: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Town Run Lane in Winston Salem, North Carolina, as the "Maya Angelou Memorial Post Office."

Missoulian: Pioneering Oklahoma energy CEO dies in fiery car crash
Former CEO Indicted for Masterminding Conspiracy Not to Compete for Oil and Natural Gas Leases

Elk and Deer Hunting/ Clinton Email Release/ Supreme Court Death Row Case

Missoulian: Regulation changes could impact hunters in Bitterroot
Deer & Elk Permits
“Want to hunt deer and elk in Montana? Resident and nonresident license and permit applications are due March 15.”

Missoulian: State Dept finishes Clinton email release, more than 52k out
Secretary Clinton Emails
“All documents posted today are fully searchable. The documents posted will not have the subject line, to line, and from line on the search result page on the date of the actual posting. We will be adding this data in March 2016 and expect to be done by the end of that month.”

Missoulian: Justices hear judicial-bias claim in death-row case
Williams v. Pennsylvania

“Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated where a state supreme court justice declines to recuse himself in a capital case in which he had personally approved the decision to pursue capital punishment against the defendant in his prior capacity as an elected prosecutor and continued to head the prosecutors’ office that defended the death verdict on appeal, and where he had publicly expressed strong support for capital punishment during his judicial election campaign by referencing the number of defendants he had “sent” to death row, including the defendant in the case now before the court; and (2) whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated by the participation of a potentially biased jurist on a multimember tribunal deciding a capital case, regardless of whether his vote is ultimately decisive.”

Nuclear Update

Missoulian: Nuke chief: Time is now to begin updating nukes
Work Finishes Trip Focusing on U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
“Nuclear deterrence is the basis for strategic stability among great powers, the deputy secretary said. It is the U.S. position to move toward a world free of nuclear weapons, he said. But until then “we’re going to make sure that our deterrent is safe, reliable, secure and effective, and that we will make sure that we maintain strategic stability with our … great power competitors,” he added.”

Montana Marijuana Act Court Opinion

Missoulian: Montana court limits commercial sales of medical marijuana
Opinion - Synopsis of Opinion
“The Montana Supreme Court has upheld all but one provision of the 2011 Montana Marijuana Act, rejecting most of the arguments by the Montana Cannabis Industry Association (MCIA) that the 2011 Act is unconstitutional. The MCIA brought suit after the 2011 Legislature repealed a 2004 voter initiative to legalize medical marijuana. The Legislature enacted numerous additional restrictions that MCIA claimed were unreasonable and overly burdensome

Rosa Parks/ Bears in Montana/ Flu Season

Missoulian: Rosa Parks archive fully digitized by Library of Congress
The Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress 

A Guide to Materials for Rosa Parks

“The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to Rosa Parks, including photographs and documents. This guide compiles links to Rosa Parks resources throughout the Library of Congress Web pages. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on Rosa Parks and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers. Web Guides ...”

 

Missoulian: First Yellowstone grizzly spotted out of its den
Bear Safety

Missoulian: Flu Season Continues to Be Mild: CDC
Flu Vaccine Nearly 60 Percent Effective

Bull Trout Violations/ Zika

Missoulian: State officials don't buy filmmakers' claim that Bob bull trout violations were 'honest mistake'

Film Company Individuals Cited for Breaking Bull Trout Regulations and Filming illegally on Federal Lands
“Montana Wild was in fact commercially filming and fishing in the Bob Marshall Wilderness based upon the information and comments found on the videos and photographs on the website. Arnold and Game Warden Perry Brown knew the videos were from the South Fork Flathead River Drainage and its tributaries based upon their experience and knowledge gained from patrolling the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Footage on the website, specifically a teaser clip for an upcoming video to be introduced at the Fly Fishing Film Tour debuting in Missoula, showed individuals fishing for and catching bull Trout in waters that can readily be identified as not being on the main stem of the South Fork Flathead River. According to FWP Fishing regulations the active or intentional fishing for bull trout can only occur in the main stem South Fork Flathead River, and only in the possession of a bull trout catch card.”

Missoulian: Obama Asks Congress for $1.9 Billion to Battle Zika Virus

FACT SHEET: Preparing for and Responding to the Zika Virus at Home and Abroad
“The Administration is taking every appropriate measure to protect the American people, and today announced that it is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to enhance our ongoing efforts to prepare for and respond to the Zika virus, both domestically and internationally.  The Administration will submit a formal request to Congress shortly.”

Zika Virus
“What is Zika virus disease (Zika)?
Zika is a disease caused by Zika virus that is spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika.”

Glacier National Park Still Popular

Glacier National Park Visitors Statistics from 1910-2015

Missoulian: Glacier remains one of nation's most popular national parks
Park Reports