FVCC graduated its largest class ever. Meanwhile, new Wall Street regulations are getting tougher and stricter.
HIGH
FVCC – The community college graduated its largest class last weekend, issuing 340 students a total of 358 degrees and certificates
CABINET MINE – This mine could be back on track after a district judge’s opinion that is mostly favorable to mining interests and federal agencies.
PAIGE WARD – This Libby High senior won Montana’s Congressional Art Competition for her photograph of a bee, which will now hang in a tunnel leading to the U.S. Capitol building.
BIBLER TRAIL – The Flathead County Commission approved a request for bids on the long-planned Sam Bibler Commemorative Trail Project.
BETWEEN
DRUNKEN DRIVING – A new report shows Montana Highway Patrol Troopers wrote almost 30 percent fewer tickets for drunken driving than four years earlier, with alcohol-related fatalities for this year down 52 percent from last year at this time. However, the issue obviously remains a chronic problem, one likely to be taken up by legislators in 2011.
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WALL STREET – Bankers are panicking as the financial reform bill working its way through the Senate looks to be getting tougher and stricter.
M&M BAR – With no bids on this historic bar and café in downtown Butte, the property now goes to a Bozeman man with a lien on the business.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA – Local governments around the state continue to take a hard stand against pot, with Billings imposing a moratorium and Tribal leaders making it illegal for members on the Flathead Reservation.
COTEY NEWELL – This Missoula parking attendant was writing a ticket when his scooter was stolen by a transient who crashed it into a parked car.