18 Dec 2012
Posted by Shane Castle It was 10 o’clock on Monday night. The city commission meeting had been in progress about four hours but the chambers were still packed with some 150 people. Dozens more spilled out into the hallway and two nearby rooms rigged with TVs and speakers. Almost fifty people had just finished testifying,...
Read more → 14 Dec 2012
Posted by Shane Castle 
Boeing generated record revenues of $68.7 billion and net earnings of $4.1 billion. CEO Jim McNerney’s total compensation package was about $23 million that year. But according to a recent study by Citizens for Tax Justice, once you account for subsidies and tax loopholes, Boeing paid an effective...
Read more → 06 Dec 2012
Posted by Shane Castle December will likely produce an answer as to whether the proposed non-discrimination ordinance will pass in Helena. We do not know exactly what the final language will be, of course, but this paper supports the basic precepts of the ordinance as drafted so far, and its spirit. The most substantive...
Read more → 06 Dec 2012
Posted by Shane Castle On December 3, the city commission voted 5-0 to hold a public hearing to determine the fate of the non-discrimination ordinance it has been working on for about a year. Well over 200 people attended the reading, with 87 testifying in favor and 119 testifying against. Many of those testifying on both...
Read more → 01 Nov 2012
Posted by Shane Castle 
The city of Helena is poised to start the public-hearing process for a local anti-discrimination ordinance. That simple sentence was 10 months in the making, but for some interested parties, it’s been more like decades. The ordinance would make it illegal for people to discriminate against lesbian,...
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