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JANUARY 14, 2015 | 5
W•O•R•D•S of the Week
AN INDEX OF RECENT NEWSMAKERS
PARIS
Terrorist attacks in Paris last week left 17 people dead dur- ing three days of violence.
PRIMARIES
Last week, Montana Repub- licans voted to join a lawsuit seeking to limit their primary elections to those registered with the GOP. They will join a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in September against the state and its open pri- maries.
MONTANA MILLIONAIRE
An East Helena man has filed a lawsuit seeking half of the Montana Millionaire jackpot, saying he had a verbal agree- ment with the winner to split the prize. The lawsuit alleges the winner had agreed to split winnings with the gas station employee.
TERM LIMITS
Montana Sen. Steve Daines signed on to a bill last week that would limit the number of terms that a Congress member can hold to three two-year terms in the house or two six-year terms in the Senate.
KEYSTONE XL
The White House last week threatened to veto a bill ap- proving the much-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The Pablo Reservoir. BEACON FILE PHOTO
Commission Approves Letter Opposing Water Compact
Letter’s origin, authors stir tension on the Flathead County board
By MOLLY PRIDDY of the Beacon
The Flathead County Commission voted to send yet another letter to the gov- ernor and state attorney general about the
proposed water compact with the Con- federated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and new dynamics on the county board brought more tension to an already loaded topic.
The latest letter came from Commis- sioner Phil Mitchell, who joined the board on Jan. 1 after being elected last Novem- ber. In it, the commission voices opposi- tion against the water compact, writing, “[i]t will be harmful to Flathead County,
as well to the rest of Montana and neigh- boringstates.”
It notes that the compact between the CSKT and the Montana Reserved Wa- ter Rights Compact Commission grants off-reservation water rights for the first time in the state’s history of forming such agreements with tribes, and it disputes the amount of acre-feet of water per tribal
See Water Compact PAGE 22
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