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Streamside setback regulations being consideredBy Michael Howell The 2005 Montana legislature considered a bill to control development along the banks of the state's rivers. That bill was not passed into law, but the debate did engender a movement in the Bitterroot Valley to pass a set of local stream setback regulations that would allow local input and control to dominate the process of creating and establishing any such regulations in the county. More...
City of Hamilton replies to Government Study Commission recommendationsBy Michael Howell Hamilton Mayor Jessica Randazzo responded verbally last week to the recommendations made by the Local Government Review Study Commission in its supplemental report. Commission members have been insisting for some time that the law requires a response from the city to the report which contained 17 separate recommendations. More...
Eating Our WordsBy Gretchen L. Langton Chapter One Bookstore was jammed to the gills on January 10 for the third installment in the First Annual Food and Culture Series. Over seventy word-a-holics wet their mental whistles with a savory dish, Christi the Wordsmith; she rustled up some intriguing food cliches and carved through their histories as swiftly as a knife passin' through hot butter. Actually, it was more languid than that, but had I used the cliche "slow as molasses in January," you may have stopped reading. Let's just say that her fare was so palatable that people stood for lack of a seat. More... Immigration: A New Civil Rights FrontBy Gretchen L. Langton "Humble only means you are not going to do what someone is doing to you. Love them instead." This is what Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, learned from his grandfather and repeated in an interview aired on Martin Luther King Jr.'s recent birthday. MLK would have been seventy-eight-years-old had he not been gunned down on April 4, 1968. King studied the teachings of Gandhi and adapted the practice of "non-violent resistance" to the Civil Rights Movement in the 50's and 60's with great success. Why was passive resistance so successful? In part, because a majority of Americans were hit with waves of compassion when they saw televised images of men, women, and children rapidly washed off the streets by high-powered fire hoses, attacked by German Shepherd police dogs, and subjected to routine clubbings in the South. "What about democracy," the world wondered. More... Commissioners to decide on 'Plan to Plan'By Michael Howell Ravalli County Commissioners will be discussing and potentially adopting the proposed "Plan to Plan", a schedule for implementing countywide zoning over a one and a half year period ending in 2008, at a meeting in the Commissioner's meeting room, in the County Administration Building at 215 4th Street, Hamilton. Any decision may also include funding for the process. For details about the proposed "Plan to Plan" see last weeks Bitterroot Star or go to www.ravallicounty.mt.gov/planning/range.htm. More... |
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