SHEPHERD – Senator Jon Tester is pushing to get Montana technology working to clean up oil in the Gulf.
Floating Island International is a Montana based company that makes habitats to purify water. The floating islands made of recycled materials house microbes that eat impurities right out of the water.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., took a swipe Friday at two of the alternatives that Yellowstone National Park officials are considering as part of their winter-use planning.
“Two of these proposals aren’t going to fly in my book because, like most Montanans, I believe snowmobiles and snowcoaches have an important place in Yellowstone,” Tester said in a statement.
In light of Heights traffic snarls stemming from the Father’s Day tornado, the U.S. Senate is considering $1million in road improvements to Bench Boulevard.
Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved $1 million for turning Bench Boulevard into an emergency traffic route out of the Heights. The committee also set aside $500,000 to improve the outdated emergency radio system used by Billings and Yellowstone County police and firefighters.
BILLINGS – Montana Senator Jon Tester pressed the Federal Reserve Chairman Wednesday over the way banking rules are applied.
Ben Bernanke spoke to the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill. Tester said Montana banks complain to him about inconsistency from federal regulators.
Tester said predictability is needed so banks can make appropriate loans and address the credit crunch.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars made PTSD a household acronym.
The toll that nine years of combat with extended and repeated deployments has taken on hundred of thousands of U.S. service members includes post-traumatic stress disorder.
Montana has been a leader in improving screening for PTSD and other brain disorders among returning National Guardsmen. The Montana model of boosting the quality of post-deployment mental health screening is now being adopted nationwide.
