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DATA POINTS
“Today we’re 49th in the country in wages and our kids are leaving, in large part because we have a failed administration in Helena.”
Greg Gianforte,
Republican candidate for governor, at a gubernatorial debate in Billings last week.
“At the end of the day you don’t build the (economy) up by giving tax breaks to out-of-state corporations and millionaires.”
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock at last week’s debate pointing out that the average incomes are rising the fastest
in the country.
THIS WEEK’S POLLS FROM FLATHEADBEACON.COM
$12
WOULD YOU RIDE IN A SELF-AUTOMATED CAR?
DO YOU PLAN ON WATCHING THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?
DO YOU AGREE WITH THE JUDGE’S ORDER TO REMOVE THE BRIDGE ON THE NORTH SHORE OF FLATHEAD LAKE?
MILLION
Amount Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay for damages caused by a 2011 pipeline break that spilled 63,000
TOTAL VOTES
TOTAL VOTES
TOTAL VOTES
249
207
293
gallons of crude 31 YES
into the % % % % % %
Yellowstone River.
429-6/8
Net score of a bull elk that was
shot by a Montana bow hunter recently. The elk, which was taken on a solo hunt early in the state’s archery season, is believed to be a world-record in the Boone and Crockett Club record book.
NO
69 NO
60 YES
40 NO
70 YES 30
*READER POLLS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
THE GOOD
GLACIER PARK AIRPORT
Glacier Park International Airport set a passenger record this summer. A total of 97,206 people boarded ights leaving Kalispell between June and August.
THE BAD
UM ENROLLMENT
Fall enrollment at the University of Montana’s main campus is down 6.1 percent compared to last year and down 22 percent since 2010.
People who visited the White sh Trail’s four most popular trailheads (Lion Mountain, Swift Creek, Spencer Mountain, and Beaver Lakes) during the rst month of collecting trail user data.
8,533
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