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Former Montana Republican congressman Ron Marlenee has died.He was 84.A funeral home notice says he died Sunday.

Yes, good ole Ben Franklin was the first public figure to bring the idea of day light saving time to the public. But it didn’t happen until many years later.

The government doesn’t force automobile manufactures to build cheaper cars. So how can government force builders to build cheaper homes?

When it’s time to socialize you’re pretty well done at 9 PM. Making it all the way through a movie is a real challenge. Not too many second dates for farmers.

A single farmer can till and plant several times the acreage of a farmer 20 ago. But consider the cost of the equipment making that possible.

My problem is the government being able to tell a company that they are no longer permitted to manufacture a product based on a hunch that saving energy might have something to do with climate.

Many Montana farmers took it on the chin this past weekend as a flurry of wind, hail, rain and some tornadoes took a $50 million dollar damage toll on local crops and structures.