WATER YOU THINKING? 3 April 2015 concluded the third and final week of Missoula’s District Court Battle with the Carlyle Group and Mountain Water, anticipating closing statements from both sides on Monday, April 6th after which Judge Karen Townsend will determine whether it is necessary to condemn the Water System through eminent domain. The final … Continue reading
Flathead Lake is the United States’ largest fresh-water lake west of the Mississippi, as well as being one of the least polluted. For the last 15 years the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have been negotiating an agreement with the United States and Montana governments to permanently codify the exact details of who has water … Continue reading
What’s In The Water? The City of Missoula Versus Mountain Water and the Carlyle Group raged through its seventh day this past week and is on course to conclude this coming week, after which Judge Karen Townsend will determine whether it is necessary to condemn the infrastructure through eminent domain. The case for condemnation gathered … Continue reading
THE BIG SQUEEZE The great Mountain Water debate is on in Missoula County District Court as the City of Missoula takes its eminent domain case for public ownership against Mountain Water Company and its new owner, the infamous global equity firm, the Carlyle Group. The trial comes as a consequence of Carlyle reneging on its … Continue reading
US VS THEM Apart from analyzing the tendency of the war-film genre to glorify violence, justify racism, and fetishize murder, there are a number of factual errors and historical inconsistencies with Clint Eastwood’s newest film American Sniper, as well as the book it’s based upon. The film’s portrayal of Christian dominionism confuses the otherwise peaceful … Continue reading
Contrary to popular belief, Education and Schooling are, as award winning school teacher John Taylor Gatto contends, mutually exclusive subjects. This realization became easier to recognize with the advent of Standardized Testing like the ITBS, more obvious with the creation of No Child Left Behind, and is now difficult to ignore under the auspices of … Continue reading
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