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DATA POINTS
THIS WEEK’S POLLS FROM FLATHEADBEACON.COM
ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2016?
DO YOU SUFFER FROM CABIN FEVER IN THE WINTER?
TOTAL VOTES
ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE LOCAL ECONOMY IN 2016?
$1.5 BILLION
Additional funding for national parks that President Barack Obama is recommending over a three- year period. Congress has a smaller funding increase in mind. Their shared goal is to use the 2016 National Park Service centennial to improve trails, visitor centers, campgrounds and other park features that need maintenance work.
150
104
190
TOTAL VOTES
TOTAL VOTES
43% NO
who will work with me to
61% NO
57% YES
“Mike is a proven leader
39% YES
66% YES 270,000
34% NO *READER POLLS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
300
one of the nation’s strongest.”
responsibly manage our nances, hold the line on taxes, increase the number of high paying jobs, and ensure our economy remains
CUBIC YARDS
MILLION
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock
Overall visitation to national parks in 2015, besting last year’s all-time high of nearly 293 million.
after appointed long-time
state legislator and former Secretary of State Mike Cooney as his lieutenant governor. The appointment comes one month after former Lt. Gov. Angela McLean resigned amid tension with Bullock.
THE GOOD
KIDSPORTS GRANT
“You said you were here to help the citizens of Harney
County. That help ended when that protest became an
armed occupation.”
Harney County Sheri David Ward addressing gun-toting protesters holed-up in a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Monday. Ammon Bundy, co-leader of the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, said his group seized the government property after splintering o from a larger protest about ranchers’ rights in the small town of Burns.
The popular youth sports facility in Kalispell received a late Christmas gift in the form of a $1.41 million grant to build new elds and improve infrastructure.
THE BAD
MARKETS
Stocks got crushed on the rst day of trading in 2016 following new signs of an economic slowdown in China and a are-up in tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Dow slumped 276 points, or 1.6 percent.
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Waste rock that will be dumped into Berkeley Pit, a former open-pit copper mine in Butte that is a Superfund site already lled with billions of gallons of acidic water. Montana o cials plan to clean up mine and mineral processing waste dumped near the Butte Civic Center and county shops by moving some of the waste rock into the pit.
