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Maybe the best we can hope for is a new rule that would require staff members to wait for a period of years – say, a full election cycle – before accepting a job as a lobbyist.

Water utilities, largely managed by city governments, have never faced improvements of this magnitude before. And customers will have to bear the majority of the cost through rate increases

Water use, wildlife migration corridors and routes for new power lines will be among the planned topics of discussion when the Western Governors Association holds its annual meeting in Jackson Hole

For employers, telework offers a strategy for recruiting and retaining talent. Telework expands the potential talent pool to include workers who don’t live near a government facility. "It’s really chasing the knowledge and the capabilities, rather than that plus the need to have somebody relocate,"

There are still many problems in not only Region 10, Richland County’s region, but in most of the other Montana regions.

Best practices are all well and good. We make a case for a center to study the worst.

Include the public from the ground floor up.

You need to ask the difficult question: Are results being achieved with public funds? Having the mechanism to ask the question in a targeted but variety of ways is very important. That’s what we’re doing here.

The survey is wonkish, written in the technical language of the climate change report. To comprehend its content and complete it thoughtfully requires familiarity with a 453-page document. For EQC members, who have received the report and heard from experts, it’s a useful tool. For John and Jane Montanan, who don’t have the same intimacy with an arcane study, it’s something best left to, well, the people they elected to deal with such matters.

In a White House meeting with governors, Bush shot down the idea — pressed mostly by Democratic governors — of passing a second economic stimulus package with money for roads and construction projects, arguing it is premature.