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By Diane Cochran, Billings Gazette
As we move into the heart of the summer and look forward to celebrating July Fourth, it is a good time to celebrate the initial steps Montana has taken toward energy independence and to weigh future opportunities.
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By Charles S. Johnson, Billings Gazette
The Montana Pro Life Coalition on Wednesday submitted three proposed constitutional initiatives for the 2010 ballot defining embryos and fetuses as persons with rights, measures that if passed and upheld in courts would effectively ban abortion in Montana.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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Survey finds fewer teens using meth
Staff reports, Billings Gazette
New figures released Wednesday by the Montana Office of Public Instruction show another drop in methamphetamine use among Montana teenagers between 2007 and 2009.
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State tax revenues fall under forecast
By Charles S. Johnson, Billings Gazette
State general fund tax collections for the fiscal year ending Tuesday are less than what lawmakers projected, but it's too early to say by how much, the Legislature's chief revenue forecaster said Wednesday.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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