SOS News Digest

April 20, 2007

Legislature

What surplus? 2007-09 budget out of balance
Billings Gazette

Speaker says budget bills won't move until tax relief does
Billings Gazette

Bill OK'd for sale of gambling antiques
Billings Gazette

Senate fails to override Schweitzer veto
Billings Gazette

Democrats on committee vote against Television Montana
Billings Gazette

Feature photo: Serious business
Billings Gazette

Activists address sexuality, religion
Billings Gazette

Tourism bill clears Senate
Daily Chronicle

Tax cuts could come courtesy of tax aimed at Plum Creek Timber
Independent Record

Senate passes bill allowing new wells in ‘closed basins’
Independent Record

EPA warns of possible violations from coal-bed methane water bill
Independent Record

The Dean
Missoula Independent

An expensive habit
Missoula Independent

'Re-regulation' nearing final approval; governor noncommittal
Missoulian

Two of four poaching bills stall
Missoulian

Editorials

Mr. Schweitzer goes to Frisco
Daily Inter Lake

Gazette Opinion: Income taxes boost state fund balance
Billings Gazette

Federal

AG questioned sharply about Mercer's jobs
Billings Gazette

Rehberg issues tax hike warning
Missoulian

Forest Service, state agree on water compact
Montana Standard

Current Events

Obama bows out of Bison commencement
Great Falls Tribune
(ed. note: Probably because he heard we would not have an early primary.)

Montana’s inconvenient truths
Missoula Independent

John McCain’s loaded for bear
Missoula Independent

Obscenity ordinance obstacle
Missoula Independent

Mail-in ballots voted in
Missoula Independent

Rehberg’s chief of staff seeks top state GOP job
Montana Standard

State’s exports top $1B
Montana Standard