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Montana Blog Roundup 12 March 2011

March 12, 2011

There was just a tremendous collection of posts this week all over the Montana blogosphere. As the Republican-dominated Legislature is getting around to the serious business of gutting critical social services for little reason other than appeasing extremists in their party, it’s great to read the insightful comments from people who are keeping a close [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 05 March 2011

March 5, 2011

Another weekly look at the posts that I most appreciated and/or was interested in this week in the small world of Montana blogs. My favorite story of the week is jhwygirl’s roundup of the two rallies at the Capitol yesterday, one of which drew national attention, with the other seeming to receive much less notice. [...]

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Who Visits Intelligent Discontent?

March 3, 2011

Inspired by Rob’s post over at Left in the West, I decided to take a closer look at the traffic stats here for the past month, which was certainly one of the busiest in the almost six years I have been writing here. The only other comparable time was probably October 2006, when I was [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 27 February 2011

February 27, 2011

In a month when we’ve written 66 posts here at Intelligent Discontent (more than the last five months of 2010 combined), it’s probably appropriate to take a moment to thank the Montana GOP at the Legislature for inspiring me to get back into writing. They’ve also inspired a number of excellent posts all over the [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 19, 2011

February 19, 2011

In a week during which the Montana Legislature took its unique brandof governing by conspiracy theory to the national media, you may have missed some excellent posts on subjects other than President Obama’s place of birth. Here are a few of the most interesting. If you’re not reading D Gregory Smith’s From Eternity to Here, [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 12, 2011

February 12, 2011

A quick look at the highlights from this week in Montana’s blogs suggests it’s been a tough seven days forDenny Rehberg and the GOP leadership at the Montana Legislature. The writers over at 4and20blackbirds focused on the unbelievable hypocrisy of the Republicans in the Legislature. MT Cowgirl addressed the national embarrassment of Dennis Rehberg’s unbelievably [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 5, 2011

February 5, 2011

A couple of quick notes from the Montana blog world you might have missed in the past week: The  Knoxocalypse was all the unpaid rage in the past couple of days, landing here and at 4and20 Blackbirds and MT Cowgirl. David Crisp wrote about the difference between betrayal and courage. Jhwygirl highlighted the dangers of [...]

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Thoughts on Attribution: the Montana Media and Blogs

September 7, 2010

I’ve always been surprised by how little coverage and credit Montana bloggers get from the mainstream media in the state (to the extent that I am almost convinced Lee Enterprises has a policy against mentioning them), but the topic has come back to mind in the past couple of days because of a new attribution [...]

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