Montana

From Sunshine Review

Jump to: navigation, search
The Montana Project on Sunshine Review


Montana was the state was the first to elect a female member of Congress, and was one of the first states to give women voting rights. Despite its sizable American Indian population, Montana is one of the most homogenous states — nearly 90% of its residents are of European descent.

Montana became the first state to pass legislation against the federal government's Real ID Act. Gov. Schweitzer signed a bill banning the Montana Motor Vehicle Division from enforcing the new regulations.

Help to build a transparent and accountable government in Montana


Montana Breaking News...

Agency offers partial response to FOIA request

September 22, 2008: The U.S. Forest Service says it's providing more information that Missoula County requested in connection with road-easement talks that occurred privately between the agency and Plum Creek Timber Co. But the Forest Service also says it's withholding some information exempt from disclosure. Read the full article here.

Missoula County posts Plum Creek easement information
September 13, 2008: Missoula County officials concerned about road-easement discussions between Plum Creek Timber Co. and the U.S. Forest Service have received some easement details from the company, which says more information will be provided.

Deputy County Attorney D. James McCubbin said the information, posted Friday on the county's Web site, is relevant to an underlying Freedom of Information Act request the county submitted to the Forest Service this summer. The material Plum Creek supplied includes an easement map and spreadsheet, and is separate from the Forest Service's previous FOIA response. Read the full article here.

County appeals in Plum Creek case
August 28, 2008: Frustrated that the federal government appears to be withholding documents, Missoula County officials on Wednesday filed a formal appeal, requesting information related to an ongoing forest road controversy.

“It looks to me as though they've withheld pretty much as many documents as they've provided,” said James McCubbin, deputy county attorney. “It's very clear that they haven't provided us with what we asked for.”

What Missoula County asked for, in an earlier Freedom of Information Act request, were documents leading up to a road easement deal struck between the U.S. Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co. Read the full article here.

...more Montana news

Transparency Checkpoints

Transparency & Government

School Districts

FOIA Laws

Blogging resources

Sunshine Review Community News

Looking for writers and editors
Readership statistics

Currently, Sunshine Review has 5,541 articles and 163 contributors. Help it grow.

What people are saying...

Sunshine Review is already adding some spring to the steps of activists touting government transparency. Find out what people are saying about us.

Portions of this article were taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the GNU license.

Retrieved from "http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Montana"