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AN INDEX OF
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FEDERAL LANDS

Oicials from nine Western
states, including Montana, met
in Utah last week to discuss
taking control of federal lands
within their borders. The issue
has come to the forefront
following Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy’s standof with the
Bureau of Land Management.

KEYSTONE XL
The long-delayed approval

process for the proposed oil
pipeline doesn’t appear to be
ending any time soon. The White
House has said it is putting of a
decision until after the midterm
elections on whether to build
the 1,179-mile pipeline that
would travel through Montana
and South Dakota to a hub in
Nebraska.

SUPERFUND
The Environmental Protection
Agency is ready to designate Grappling with Technology Demands,
the shuttered Columbia
Falls Aluminum Company
plant a Superfund site, but
it needs public support and Kalispell Schools Seek Funding Boost
input before conducting a
thorough investigation into the

contamination.
(STORY, PAGE 6)
Ballots mailed out
exist in the classroom but has also forced a generation of students absorbed in tech-
this week for proposed educators to retool or fall behind.
nology, the Kalispell school district is ask-
“There is not a student in our schools ing taxpayers to help it adapt to the modern
BALLOTS
technology levies
who has not been raised without technol- landscape.
The irst group of absentee ogy,” Kalispell Superintendent Darlene The city’s public school system, encom-
ballots for Montana’s 2014 Schottle said. “It’s a natural extension of passing nearly 5,800 students and more
primary election is in the mail. how they learn and how they interact. And than 750 staf members, is seeking $1.2
Late registration for the primary By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
runs May 6 through 8 p.m. on if we are going to keep our education system million annually over 10 years to address
June 3, the day of the primary Schools everywhere are trying to keep relevant and up to date, we need to also in-
election.
up with the digital revolution, which has re- teract with that technology.”
deined the range of opportunities that now
Faced with outdated infrastructure and
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