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NEWS

WORDS
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of the Week

AN INDEX OF
RECENT
NEWSMAKERS

MISSING FLIGHT
An Australian detected a
faint ping deep in the Indian

Ocean in what an oicial
called the “most promising
lead yet” in the search for
Malaysian Flight 370, which
has been missing for a month.

BEARS

Montana’s grizzly bears are
waking from their winter
hibernation, and they are
hungry. Wildlife oicials are
asking residents to remove
bear attractants like birdseed
and garbage, and anyone
recreating in bear country
should be carrying bear Jon Tester during
spray.
a recent Senate
Committee on
Indian Afairs hear-
ing.
HUNTING DRONES
COURTESY PHOTO
Tester Tackles Education, Health
The Boone and Crockett Club
has gone on record saying
wildlife scouted or taken with
the help of drones or other
unmanned aerial vehicles is Care as New Indian Afairs Chairman
ineligible for entry into its
records program.

Montana lawmaker mer Sen. Max Baucus to ambassador of BEACON: You grew up near the Rocky
GAS
China, the dominos fell so that Tester, who Boy Reservation and have been on the In-
discusses Indian Country has been on the Indian Afairs committee dian Afairs Committee for a number of
The price for a gallon of gas
has risen 5 cents in the past and his new Senate role
since he was irst elected seven years ago, years; how do those experiences shape
two weeks, with the average could assume the role of chairman. Tester your worldview of Indian Country and
price for regular unleaded at replaced Sen. Maria Cantwell of Wash- what are some of the most pressing issues
$3.61. However, the current By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
ington, who moved to the Small Business there today?
price is still 4 cents under Committee.
TESTER: I was familiar with Native
what it was a year ago. The need for better education and
In an interview with the Beacon last American issues and the reservations
Billings has the nation’s health care opportunities are some of the week, Tester addressed a gamut of issues growing up near the Rocky Boy Reser-
lowest price at $3.20.
biggest challenges facing Indian Coun- facing the Native American community, vations and later being on the Big Sandy
try today, according to the newly seated including the government turmoil on the School Board. I remember the challeng-
chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Indian Af- Blackfeet Reservation and the controver- es they faced, be it in housing or safety
fairs Committee, Sen. Jon Tester.
sy surrounding the Washington Redskins’
With the recent appointment of for-
name.
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