For around $110,000 a year, Montana Public Service commissioners take on a four-year commitment to balance company interests with the needs of the customers the utilities serve.
For around $110,000 a year, Montana Public Service commissioners take on a four-year commitment to balance company interests with the needs of the customers the utilities serve.
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All three of the big bills passed the House at the end of last week.
Senators in the Committee for Marijuana Law heard supporters and opponents on one of three recreational marijuana implementation bills, HB 670.  It appears to me that 670 is attempting to strike a decent balance between regulation and allowing businesses to do what they need to do, a supporter said. Why we are here today is just to ask you to use some of this revenue to fund our very popular and very over used public lands, an opponent said.
Lawmakers discussed how the bill lets local city and county governments decide if they want dispensaries to open up within their borders.
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Right-to-work legislation fails. Culture war bills are still alive. And the big budget fights loom as the Legislature marks its midpoint.
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Capitol Talk with Sally Mauk, Holly Michels and Rob Saldin.
Sally Mauk Holly, one of the bills that did not make the deadline be transmitted to the other chamber was a so-called right to work bill, strongly and effectively opposed by Democrats and unions and a lot of Republicans who voted no.
Holly Michels Yeah, this was a pretty interesting debate we heard in the House on Tuesday. It was carried by a representative, Caleb Hinkle, who s a Republican from Belgrade. And the bill would have prohibited the requirement of belonging to a union as a condition of employment, and also stopped private-sector unions from requiring nonmembers who are covered by the bargaining agreements they negotiate to pay union dues. This bill, it was interesting watching in committee and only cleared it becaus