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“I have not made up my mind about who I will vote for or if I will vote. I certainly will not vote for Trump or Clinton. I would like to hear from Gary Johnson before I make my nal decision. Before I decide if I am voting or not, which would be a sad state of a airs.”
Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, who served from 1993 to 2001 and was chairman of the Republican National Committee from December 2001 to July 2003, calling for Independent candidate Gary Johnson to be included in the upcoming presidential debates.
THIS WEEK’S POLLS FROM FLATHEADBEACON.COM
SHOULD THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES BE INCLUDED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES?
TOTAL VOTES
243
TOTAL VOTES TOTAL VOTES
WIKIPEDIA.COM
$56,516
A typical U.S. household’s income in 2015, an increase of 5.2 percent and highest since 2007, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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DO YOU AGREE WITH THE COURT
DECISION TO HALT THE KOOTENAI ARE YOU LOOKING
FOREST LOGGING PROJECT? FORWARD TO AUTUMN?
172 221
75% YES
25% NO
37% YES
63% NO 81% YES
19% NO *READER POLLS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
THE GOOD
GREAT FISH
Forty nonpro t organizations raised more than $1.1 million in donations during the Great Fish Challenge, which ended last week.
THE BAD
TERRORISM
Nine people were stabbed at a Minnesota mall over the weekend and a bomb injured 29 others in Manhattan, raising terrorism fears across the country. No one was killed in either attack.
58.4%
Amount by which Blue Cross is increasing premiums in Montana for individual policies o ered under the A ordable Care Act.
Consecutive months dating back to October 2015 that have set new monthly high-temperature records for the globe. August 2016 wound up
tied with July 2016 for the warmest month ever recorded. August’s temperature was 0.16 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous warmest August in 2014, according to NASA. Last month also was 0.98 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean August temperature from 1951 to 1980.
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