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Evening Newscast 03-30-17

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening Newscast

The Montana House voted along party lines to advance a measure seeking to let voters to define a "person" as a fertilized egg at the moment of conception.

The Montana Senate has mustered the minimum number of votes it needed to pass its version of a massive infrastructure package.

Montana residents who signed contracts agreeing to accept $1,000 in exchange for not suing the Atlantic Richfield Co. over future mine waste cleanup in Opportunity will have the chance to reconsider. Montana Public Schools Superintendent Elsie Arntzen protested a suggestion to delay spring payments to schools by a week.

Legislation aiming to secure the social and economic future of Colstrip and the community sustained, in part, by the town’s coal-fired plant passed out of the Senate today.

A tax increase on cigarettes and chew took a step forward today in the Montana Senate.

 

Rachel is a UM grad working in the MTPR news department.
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