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Thursday Numbers

Welcome to “Thursday Numbers!” If you are a new visitor, this is my weekly column where I take a look at the numbers that are in the news (in descending order) and provide commentary (sometimes with a little sarcasm).

PLEASE NOTE: If you read this column you may be able to use the information to impress your family, friends, and co-workers. Then again, when they find out that you spend your time reading blogs they may not be too impressed…

This week I write about the Fort Peck Dam, mineral payments, mud snails, unemployment, the Montana Legislature and Medicaid, Day 67, Drones, Hotel Finn, Iconic, Miami Heat, Lady Gaga, Baby George, hunting at Walmart, and the urinal gaming system!

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Thursday Numbers

We’ve made it to another Thursday and the weekend is just about here!  Congratulations!  If you’ve read The Western Word very much in the last three or four months you know that Thursdays are the days that we take a look at some the “numbers” in the news and offer a little commentary about each.

This week I write about solar panels, followers, unemployment, a fine, poverty, passing yards, baseball games, ovens, and pounds!   Plus there’s a lot more, so read on…

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Thursday Numbers

It’s Thursday and due to a short week with the holiday we’ve almost made it to another weekend!  Today I take a look at some of the numbers – unemployment claims, underemployment numbers, White House Twitter Town Hall numbers, Twitter followers, and polls – that caught my attention in recent days.  It’s some interesting reading for almost everyone on what promises to be a hot summer day!

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Being Cool

After “celebrating” my birthday last week and knowing there’s a pretty good chance that I have lived more days than I have left to live (unless I am in some way related to Walter Breuning, the world’s oldest man), I decided to do the “cool thing” and watch the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night.

Besides, there wasn’t any football.

I know this is a shocking revelation for my readers, but there were people performing and nominated for awards who I did not know.

Even more shocking were the people I did know looked old. Some looked very old. Continue reading →

Twitter: GOP Winning

Like many people, I use Twitter to get my news, sports and weather. A lot of other people do, too. I found a story that Politico recently did about Republicans using Twitter more than Democrats interesting.

Politico reported:

Eight of the 10 most-followed Twitter accounts on Capitol Hill belong to Republicans, according to a report released Thursday by public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.

You can read the story HERE.

It appears that is true here in Montana, too. Continue reading →