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The Flight from Coal in U.S. Electricity Production In the late 1990s as the Montana Power Company exited the electric utility industry and headed for…
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Buying Back the Dams: An Important Billion Dollar Decision for Montana When NorthWestern Energy announced last year that it had entered into an agreement…
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Valuing the Montana Colstrip Electric Generators: A Strange New World NorthWestern Energy is proposing to purchase the Montana hydroelectric generators…
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U.S. State Department Greenlight for the Keystone Pipeline? The U.S. State Department, which has to approve pipelines crossing into the United States from…
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The Oil Companies’ Self-Serving Fatalism on Petroleum Use The American Petroleum Institute gave a pep talk to the Montana Chamber of Commerce last week,…
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Creating and Destroying “Good Jobs” One of the most common refrains in discussions of public economic policy is the importance not only of creating “jobs”…
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From Violence to Non-Violence: Putting Nelson Mandela’s Contribution into a Broader Context The twentieth century was, arguably, one of the bloodiest in…
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Scaring the Political Wits Out of Us: How Important Is the Federal Deficit? Last October, Tea Party activists held the federal government hostage,…
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If the Obama Administration cannot get the incompetent, stumbling rollout of the Affordable Care Act fixed in the next month or so, we will soon face…
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Is the Bakken Oil Boom an Example of the Economic Development We Are After? The oil boom in the Bakken area of Montana and North Dakota has led to the…