An offbeat review of 2008's most dubious accomplishments
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Last year’s inaugural Cluck-ups managed to make the Missoula City Council mad, poke fun at former Sen. Conrad Burns and ruffle the feathers, so to speak, of those who expected a more conventional recap of 2007. With such a spirited response, of course we wanted to take aim again in 2008.
Luckily, we found no shortage of appropriate fodder.
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) faces the challenge of reviewing policies on endangered species forged under the influence of disgraced wildlife official Julie MacDonald. The former deputy assistant secretary of U.
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It was two in the afternoon on Christmas Eve and snow was dumping west of Idaho’s Fourth of July pass. Knowing this, I had pretty much given up any hope of reaching my mom’s house near Seattle so I figured Lincoln’s 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar in Haugan was as good a place as any to fall off the wagon—or sleigh, as it is this time of year.
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Dead batteries and frozen fuel pumps kept scores of motorists off Missoula’s streets through the holiday season. With towing crews and repair shops overwhelmed, some motorists seeking the benefits of American Automobile Association (AAA) membership found themselves out in the cold.
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Steep and unmanicured terrain has long provided Montana Snowbowl notoriety within the ski world as a burly mountain best enjoyed by experts. Ski magazines labeled one of its lines, “Grizzly Chute,” as one of the toughest runs in the region.
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Sizeable coal reserves, ideal for methane extraction, sit in a pair of river basins straddling the Montana-Wyoming border east of the Crow Reservation. The taxation rights to the commodities themselves depend on the exact location of the field, but the water necessary for extraction was spoken for long before the coal bed methane industry arrived in the Northern Rockies.
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