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Montana Judge Rejects Gay Couple Rights Suit
By not in system - AOL NewsHELENA, Mont. -- A Montana judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to extend to gay couples the same legal protections as married couples, saying in his decision that he can't grant the benefits partly because of the state's voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the gay couples, arguing that the guarantees in the Montana Constitution of equal protection, privacy and dignity should require the state to afford the legal rights to the gay couples. The ACLU said it ...
Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either were regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act as risks to human health or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Methanol was the most widely used chemical. The substance is a hazardous air pollutant and is on the candidate list for potential ...
Congress Measure Against Wolves Seen as Precedent
By not in system - AOL NewsBILLINGS, Mont. -- The White House is poised to accept a budget bill that includes an unprecedented end-run around Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in five Western states - the first time Congress has targeted a species protected under the 37-year-old law. Lawmakers describe the provision in the spending bill as a necessary intervention in a wildlife dilemma that some say has spun out of control. Sixty-six wolves were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies from Canada in the mid-1990s; there are now at least 1,650. AFP / Getty Images The White House is expected to ...
Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Threaten Plains and East Coast
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsA powerful spring storm system will spawn dangerous thunderstorms over a large area from the Plains to the East Coast, starting later Sunday and continuing through Tuesday. The system includes the threat of large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. The storm will also produce more late-season snow in the Northern Plains and cause additional flooding problems from the Plains to the East. The stretch from Chicago southward to Dallas will be the region at risk for dangerous thunderstorms from later Sunday through Sunday night, with the greatest risk area in Illinois, Missouri and ...
Montana Rep. Says DUI Laws Are 'Destroying a Way of Life'
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThere are victims of drunken driving. And, according to one Montana legislator, there are victims of drunken driving laws. While speaking out against a proposed bill that would make DUI laws more strict for repeat offenders, state Rep. Alan Hale, R–Basin, said drunken driving regulations hurt local businesses and are "destroying a way of life." "These DUI laws are not doing our small businesses in our state any good at all. They are destroying them," he said in a speech on the state House floor. "They are destroying a way of life that has been in Montana for years and years." Hale, ...
Mont. Court Suspends Order for Woman to Undergo Hysterectomy
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMontana's highest court has halted an order for a woman with cancer to undergo a hysterectomy and will allow her lawyer to appeal a ruling that she is mentally incompetent and is unable to make her own medical decisions. District Judge Karen Townsend ruled last week that the woman, referred to in court documents as L.K., is incompetent and ordered her to undergo the procedure March 3, according to the Missoulian. But the Montana Supreme Court delayed the order after the woman's attorney filed an emergency petition the day before the hysterectomy was to take place. "Tomorrow's impending ...
Montana Lawmakers and Others Flex Their States' Rights Muscles
By Michael Ames - Politics DailyMontana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has never been shy about giving the federal government a piece of his mind. But the new state legislature is taking it a step further. It is considering a dozen bills that aim to nullify various federal laws within Montana's borders -- bills Schweitzer considers "un-American." Montana certainly isn't alone in challenging Washington. In the wake of health care reform passed a little less than a year ago and midterm elections that installed conservatives at all levels of government, the states' rights movement is enjoying a Renaissance. The recharged anti-federal ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
State Abortion Restrictions Still a Priority for Republican Lawmakers
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyRepublican state legislators around the country, holding the majority in most cases, have aggressively moved in the past few weeks to enact new abortion restrictions. If any of these measures pass into law, and many are predicted to do so, they will likely generate a new wave of litigation over the contours of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 abortion decision. It has been five years now since the Supreme Court decided a major abortion case, and none are on its docket for the rest of this term. Related Stories Abortion Foes Have High Hopes for New Congress -- ...
Snow Disappearing Fast -- but What About Flooding?
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe recent unseasonably warm weather in the eastern two-thirds of the country has resulted in a quick and dramatic decrease in snow cover across the United States, but the lack of heavy rain in the near term means only isolated areas will see flooding. During the past five days, the percentage of the continental U.S. with at least a little snow on the ground has decreased from 64.9 percent to 31.3 percent, according to the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. The snow will continue to melt this week as the warmth intensifies and expands. AOL Weather Resources: Get Your ...
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