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by Thomas M. Power

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2002

Date Commentary Title
December 30 Just What Is Happening to the Montana Economy?
December 16 The Real Purpose of Bush's Planned Invasion of Iraq
December 2 Abandoning Environmental Safeguards in Our National Forests
November 18 The Biennial Raid on the Coal Tax Trust Fund
November 4 Thinking about the Libby and Lincoln County Economies
October 21 The Loss of Agricultural Land to Residential Development in the West
October 7 Buying Back Montana’s Hydroelectric Dams?
September 23 Questions to Be Answered Before We Go To War in Iraq
September 9 Suspending Environmental Laws to Support Logging the National Forests
August 26 President Bush's Perverse Political Jujitsu on Wildfire Control
August 12 Touch America Takes the Money and Runs
July 29 Montana’s and the West’s “Golden Days”
July 15 Blaming Environmentalists for This Summer’s Fires
July 1 The Political Exploitation of the Wildfire Threat
June 17 The Folk Economics of Job Creation
June 3 Are Montana’s Kids Increasingly at Risk Because of the Economy?
May 20 Shifting American Forest Degradation Problems to Tropical Rainforests
May 6 Income Inequality in Montana
April 22 Substituting Cronyism for Public Regulation
April 8 The Shifting US Forest Products Industry
March 25 Comparing Japan’s Montana to Our Own
March 11 Rural Problems: Here and in Japan
February 25 Using Energy Development to Boost Incomes
February 11 Does Protecting American Forests Harm Forests Worldwide?
January 28 Which Way Is Up? Puzzling Over the “Failing” Montana Economy
January 14 Is the Cost of Living in Montana Close to the National Average? A Critique of the ACCRA “Average” Cost of Living