A Friday event celebrating the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System marked the first step in a project expected to serve clean drinking water to about 50,000 people in northern Montana.
The “Turning on the Spigot” celebration in Havre commemorated the opening of the North Havre County Water District, which will deliver clean water to homes in an area that had to rely on bottled drinking water for two years.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Great Falls, Sunburst and Havre next week to visit with Montana senators and law enforcement officials about Homeland Security’s efforts to secure the northern border.
Specific details of the trip haven’t been finalized, but a department news release said Napolitano will be in Montana Tuesday and Wednesday before flying to Chicago.
Every 15 minutes of a senator’s waking life in Washington is fully scheduled with meetings, hearings and votes, and much of the rest is devoted to a frantic search for money to fuel the next campaign. “Of any free time you have, I would say 50 percent, maybe even more,” is spent on fund-raising, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa told the New Yorker recently in a scathing portrait of an overstressed and utterly ineffective legislative body, one that measures acts of real significance in the single digits per term.
As I head for a work period in Montana this August, I encourage you all to listen past the noise on the sidelines and remember the facts: our team in the Senate is aggressively taking on the tough problems facing our state and our country and solving them.
While the other side of the aisle stands square in the way, saying “no” at every turn, Democrats in the Senate have stepped up and addressed the challenges our country is facing.
From the Recovery Act to health care reform, cleaning up Wall Street to middle class tax cuts, we have a lot to be proud of. Read more to see a list of our accomplishments just since last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Montana state lawmaker, Rep. Bob Mehlhoff of Great Falls, spoke Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee at the request of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
Mehlhoff, a Democrat, expressed alarm at the prospect of communities being forced to foot the bill for expensive certification of flood levees or face dramatic increases in flood insurance rates.
