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The Long Struggle to Enact the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-wilkinson/the-return-of-citizen-kin_b_190749.html

This may be the year this long overdue conservation legislation gets enacted and places sacred and special lands throughout the Northern Rockies and beyond into protection and preservation for generations to come.


Be Honest, You Really Did Not Need to Purchase That !

http://spendster.org/

For those needing to expound upon their spending miscues and mistakes...


Arab Terrorists Literally on Ice ?

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/23/news/state/21-hardin.txt

Hardin is along I-90 about 50 miles east of Billings on the northern border of the Crow reservation, a pretty desolate and windswept outpost and either very cold or very hot for much of the year. The Arab terrorists probably would come to view time in Hardin as a greater punishment than being in Cuba with the harsh climate of the Montana prairie very challenging.


Give the Money and Forget About the Land

http://rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/04/23/news/local/doc49efb27f11fab753756820.txt

Some disputes and conflicts can seemingly never end.


A Phoenix Mainstay in Retailing Continues to Slowly Wane

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/04/23/20090423biz-bashas0424.html

Out with the old, in with the new. Bashas' has been a mainstay in the AZ grocery industry for nearly a century. Newer and faster competition that is much more contemporary is killing Bashas' and other older chains off. They will gone within the next few years entirely.

Serious Negative Developments in Pakistan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1172651/Pakistan-overrun-Taliban-warns-American-military-chief-extremists-given-chance-retreat.html

These developments are getting serious. It is looking like South Vietnam in Spring '75 all over again. I would have to think US and NATO intelligence agents and Special Ops are making ready a sophisticated and broad mission to secure critical assets that are within Pakistan, primarily the nuclear weapons and other nuclear critical materials in early to mid May depending the pace of Taliban forces conquests.


Horry County, South Carolina Ablaze
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/23/us-sc-wildfire-042309/?nation&zIndex=87106

This decent sized wildfire burned dryland wooded areas on the north and west side of the Myrtle Beach metro areas and never seriously threatened the Grand Strand or the old MBAFB where I lived from late 1970 until Spring '72.


Constitutions Long Overdue for Re-Writing

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/23/california-constitution-042309/?california&zIndex=87390

California is definitely in need of a new constitution, as are the states of Washington, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.

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