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Heard Around the West

• A rather large lawn ornament

MONTANA AND COLORADO

As the Missoulian puts it, “There’s rotten cellphone service, there’s nonexistent cellphone service, and then there’s what’s happening just a few miles east of...



Cagle Cartoons

• The Theory of Relative Laziness

My working theory — you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works —is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or...



Heard Around the West

• One toke over the state line

Traveling in the clouds

“Marijuana tourists” are expected to converge on Colorado and Washington, hoping to score without fear of handcuffs, because voters in those states legalized recreational pot last November.



Life in the Legislature

• Not much to offer political centrists

As the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, the 2013 legislative session comes to a close. There will be a number of efforts seeking to sum up the work that we did and, depending on your political views, you’ll likely be very...



Life in the Legislature

• Not much to offer political centrists

As the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, the 2013 legislative session comes to a close. There will be a number of efforts seeking to sum up the work that we did and, depending on your political views, you'll likely be very pleased or...



Others Say

• For public safety, regulation is necessary

All the facts are not yet known and investigators have not said with certainty what caused a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas.



Life in the Legislature

• So many bills, so little time

This is the last full week of the 2013 session. Still to be debated and voted on in the Senate are many weighty topics, some presented in lengthy bills of over 100 pages. Examples are dramatic changes to current law affecting elections,...



Life in the Legislature

• My experience in the Legislature

Gun control, civil unions, school refinance, renewable energy, Medicaid expansion, single-payer health care, repeal of death penalty, comprehensive sex education, and, of course, marijuana regulation. These are just some of the bills I was...



Cagle Cartoons

• Safe havens and evil

Once again it happens with sickening suddenness — a jolting shock that alters and cruelly mocks our assumption of “normalcy.”

On a weekend when the news cycle focused on North Korea’s rising threat,...



Others Say

• ‘Terrorism’ debate doesn’t help

The bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon were a form of terrorism, by most definitions of the term. The devices that went off near the finish line Monday were obviously designed to harm innocent people, and also to create chaos and fear...

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