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NEWS

WORDS
••••
of the Week

U.S. Highway 93
AN INDEX OF between Lakeside
RECENT and Kalispell.
NEWSMAKERS
GREG LINDSTROM
FLATHEAD BEACON
MAYA ANGELOU
The modern Renaissance
woman, who thrived in

virtually every artistic
medium and was one of the
irst black women to enjoy
such mainstream success
as an author, died last week
at 86.

VETERANS AFFAIRS

Eric Shinseki, secretary
of the Veterans Afairs
Department, resigned last
week in the wake of mounting
evidence of widespread
mismanagement and
misconduct at the agency.
Also last week, Montana’s
Veterans Afairs Director
Christine Gregory announced
that she would step down at
the end of June, although

she said the move was for New Efort Mobilizes to Save
personal reasons.

CARBON EMISSIONS
Lives on Montana’s Roads

In a sweeping initiative to
curb pollutants blamed for
global warming, the Obama
administration unveiled a
plan this week that cuts MDT director announces mountainous countryside and dotted with the deadliest road in the state — the 10-
carbon dioxide emissions homes. Two lanes for most of the drive, it mile section of U.S. Highway 12 west of
from power plants by nearly a sweeping plan to reduce passes cherry orchards, wooded camp- Lolo owns that tragic distinction — the lo-
third over the next 15 years.
fatalities on state’s grounds and communities like Lakeside, cal stretch of U.S. 93 had the highest num-
which welcomes the constant stream of ber of crashes of any other primary rural
highways
motorists with a sign that reads, “Slow corridor in the state.
GRADUATION
Down and Enjoy the View.”
The crash statistics relect a gloomy
Yet for being among the most pictur- reality that harkens back to the late 1990s
Congratulations to all of the By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
esque drives in Big Sky Country, it’s also when a familiar slogan was, “Pray for me, I
local high school graduates!
one of the most dangerous. There were drive Highway 93.”

The stretch of highway between Rol- 1,107 crashes and 69 fatalities on the busy Last year fatalities statewide hit a sev-
lins and Kalispell is one of the most sce- southern section of U.S. Highway 93 be- en-year high of 229 deaths. Including the
nic ribbons of pavement in Montana, un- tween 2007 and 2011, according to the lat- 55 deaths that have occurred so far this
spooling for 20 miles around the western est data from the Montana Department of
shores of Flathead Lake, surrounded by
Transportation. Though it’s not deemed
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