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DATA POINTS
THE GOOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
Both candidates for governor say infrastructure funding will be a top priority and a newly formed group calling itself the Montana Infrastructure Coalition hopes to drive discussion on improving the state’s roads, bridges, water systems and other needs.
“Maybe I’m trying to hold onto small-town Bozeman.”
Bozeman School Board Trustee Douglas
Fischer expressing his support for keeping one high school in Bozeman. An advisory committee voted overwhelmingly last week to recommend building a second high school, rather than trying to keep the state’s largest high school as one big school.
160,000
Jobs the U.S. economy added in April, the fewest monthly total in seven months. The disappointing jobs report may delay the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates this year. The nation’s unemployment rate remained at 5 percent.
88,000
Residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, forced to ee after a fast-moving re destroyed parts of the city last week. The evacuation was the largest ever in Canadian history.
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THE BAD
COAL TERMINAL
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to a $700 million project to build the nation’s largest coal-export terminal in northwest Washington state. Coal would be shipped by train from Montana and Wyoming for export to Asia.
THIS WEEK’S POLLS FROM FLATHEADBEACON.COM
43
Residential units, including single-family homes and townhouses, built or in the process of being in Kalispell in 2016 through May 1. This time last year only 17 residential units had been built or were under construction, according to city data.
DO YOU VISIT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK EVERY YEAR?
TOTAL VOTES
WOULD YOU SUPPORT A THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT?
WOULD YOU SUPPORT A GRIZZLY BEAR HUNTING SEASON IN MONTANA?
195
TOTAL VOTES
TOTAL VOTES
239
254
78% YES
22% NO
43% YES 57% NO
42% YES 58% NO *READER POLLS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
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“We’re going after Hillary Clinton. She will not be a great president. She will not be a good president. She will be a poor president.”
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump after winning the Indiana primary last week and becoming the presumptive Republican nominee.
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