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by Thomas M. Power

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1998

Date Commentary Title
January 5 Measuring the Relative Importance of Economic Activities
January 19 Mining Gold From our Bank Vaults Not Our Wildlands
February 2 Rethinking Electric Utility Restructuring
February 16 The Road Building Moratorium on Forest Service Roadless Lands
March 2 The Local Economic Impact of Endangered Species Protection
March 16 The Battle to Control the US Forest Service
March 30 Do Jobs Follow People or Do People Follow Jobs?
April 27 Do American Environmental Controls Just Shift Pollution Overseas?
May 11 A Series of Unintended Consequences: Electric Utility Restructuring
May 25 The Triumph of Entrepreneurial Attitudes in Escalante
June 11 Travels in Vermont: Echoes of Possibilities
June 22 Tobacco Taxes and Pollution Taxes: Political Confusion?
July 7 Changing Industrial Structure and Wage Declines in the Pacific Northwest
July 20 Morality and Economic Choice
August 17 Putting Montana’s Economic Experience in a Larger Regional Context
August 31 The Change in Montana’s Industrial Structure: What Has It Meant?
September 14 Do Low Earnings-per-Job Make Us Poor in Montana?
September 27 The Meaning of Montana's Low Annual Pay Per Job
October 12 Why Is Pay per Job So Low in Montana?
October 26 Where Have All The Children Gone?
November 9 Taxing Government Workers To Support Public Programs
November 23 Is Montana Really At The Bottom of the National Economic Heap?
December 7 Is the Coeur d'Alene Area a Model for Montana Economic Development?
December 21 Boosting Manufacturing as a Way to Boost Average Incomes