Daily News Roundup
July 9, 2024
Around the County Temperatures Will Soar
By Denise Rivette Although the 100° temperatures will hold off until Saturday, it will still be darned hot in Carbon County in the coming days. Tips to stay safe in the heat can be found HERE. Tips for what to do for heat related illnesses can be found
Montana Supreme Court Candidates Talk Judicial Independence, Partisan Attacks, Individual Rights
By Keila Szpaller for the Daily Independent Judges need to stay independent and guard against partisan power-mongering — and they need to protect individual rights in the Montana Constitution, especially privacy. Those were several themes raised by two candidates for the Montana Supreme Court discussed Monday in Missoula at City Club with more than 100 people in the audience.
Dealing With Drought and Poisoned Creeks in Fort Belknap
By Jule Banville for Montana Free Press If you ask Juanita Crasco about the historic and unrelenting drought where she and her husband live and ranch on the Fort Belknap Reservation, she’ll talk about her apple tree. “See here? I have a picture ready. You see how it’s just loaded with apples?” She took that photo on her iPad in 2021 and then drove roughly four hours to see her daughter in Browning, on the Blackfeet Reservation. When she returned two days later, all those apples were gone, decimated by grasshoppers. “They were so bad that year,” she says. “We lost a hundred percent of our hay crop. A hundred percent.”
GOP’s Tim Sheehy Revives Discredited Abortion Claims in Pivotal Senate Race
By Matt Volz for KFF Health News and PolitiFact “Elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth. Healthy, 9-month-year-old baby killed at the moment of birth. That’s what Jon Tester and the Democrats have voted for,” Tim Sheehy, Montana GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, said in a June 8 debate.
Carbon County First Responder Blotter
TOTAL CALLS FOR SERVICE = 439 WELFARE CHECK = 10 FIREWORKS = 17 FIGHTS = 9 DISTURBANCES = 4 MEDICALS = 17 TRAFFIC COMPLAINT = 9 CRASH = 14 ARRESTS = 5 / INCARCERATIONS = 1 WARNINGS = 114 / CITATIONS = 27 July 1 Red Lodge Fire was en route to extricate a woman’s fingers that were caught in the bear latch of a trash can when she called back to report that she was finally able to free herself.
Opinion: The Economist Cover Attempts to Convey the Biden Situation Post Debate
By Denise Rivette The situation facing President Joe Biden after the June 27th presidential debate is the subject of this week’s The Economist cover. The process the editorial team went through from concept to cover is, as usual, an excellent summary of the issue itself.