SOS News Digest

January 8, 2008

Montana news

Ranch digs in heels for fight along the Tongue river
Billings Gazette

Schweitzer tops $1M in donations
Billings Gazette

Proposal for leased state office building draws critics
Billings Gazette

Schweitzer says big school-funding increases not likely
Billings Gazette

Burnett enters race for Montana House
Daily Chronicle

Former senator Mesaros seeking to regain seat
Great Falls Tribune

Natural resources jobs to stay in agencies
Independent Record

Local governments’ STIP withdrawals slow
Independent Record

Lawmakers to review governor's climate change plan
Missoulian

State wants feds to speed up grizzly bear studies
Daily Inter Lake

Schweitzer tops Brown in Republican's first fundraising quarter
Flathead Beacon

Editorials

Big state projects need input
Independent Record

A step forward for open government
Ravalli Republic

Federal News

Legislation aims to stabilize wildfire funds
Great Falls Tribune

Native Helenan pitches in for Obama
Independent Record

Baucus proposes ways to meet rising firefighting costs
Missoulian