Articles with the Tag: Helena
Miss Montana USA to visit Polson POLSON – The Polson Shooters Association is excited to announce that Miss Montana will visit Polson. She will make several appearances around town. On Friday, Aug. 21, she will be a special guest at the INFR Rodeo. On Saturday, Aug. 22, she will shoot with the ...
Stranahan selected for Leadership Montana BILLINGS — Arlee resident Mary Stranahan of Good Works Ventures, LLC, will be one of 44 community, business, education, healthcare, nonprofit and government leaders from across the state selected for the Leadership Montana Class of 2016. These i...
News from the Montana Office of Public Instruction HELENA — With the passage of SB 345 by the 2015 Legislature, the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) is following a new process for adoption of content and performance standards. The process involves the establishment of a negotiated rulemaking commi...
HELENA – Attorneys for a man convicted by a jury in December 2014 for stabbing and killing a Polson man have asked the Montana Supreme Court to reconsider his punishment. Makueeyapee Whitford was sentenced in April by Lake County District Judge James Manley to 60 years in Montana State Prison ...
HELENA – In a complaint that reads almost like a point-counterpoint summary to documents filed in a grievance currently under review, two people in Gallatin County have asked the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices to determine whether or not the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes broke st...
News from the Governor’s Office HELENA — Governor Steve Bullock signed an Executive Order Tuesday, June 16 to create the Office of American Indian Health at the Montana Department of Health and Human Services during the closing of the Tribal Leaders’ Summit. Bullock was joined by tribal ...
MISSOULA — In an effort to attract more civically engaged students to pursue higher education in Montana, 12 Montana colleges and universities are offering matching funds for AmeriCorps alums who use their Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards to attend their institutions. The Segal AmeriCorps Edu...
HELENA – A public relations firm hired by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to sway public opinion about a tribal water compact did help form a grassroots lobbying group related to the compact, but the expenditures the tribal government made to do so were exempted from lobbying reports becaus...
HELENA – The fired up rhetoric that reached a din during the Montana Legislature has died down somewhat since the passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Compact, but state and tribal workers who did the behind-the-scenes grunt work for the document are now facing another monumental task:...
HELENA — On May 29, Governor Steve Bullock appointed Kevin Howlett, Tribal Health and Human Services Director for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, as part of the nine-member Montana HELP Act Oversight Committee. The oversight committee is a component of Senate Bill 405 known as the HELP Act...
