Although the most newsworthy meeting in Washington this week was the one where Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress met with President Obama at the White House, there was another meeting where a couple Montana senators were able to leverage some media attention.

Both meetings produced little, if any, real solutions except for some face time for the politicians on the news.

The Central Montana Defense Alliance, which is a group of business people from the local Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, took another trip to Washington, D.C., to talk to the Air National Guard about moving of the F-15s from Montana to California and gaining C-27J cargo mission. Of course, they talked about any other mission the Air Force would like to move to Great Falls.

They also met with Montana’s U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester. It’s not known if they did any Christmas shopping in our nation’s capital… Continue reading →