This morning I was going to write about the City of Great Falls (Montana) and their issue with urban chickens. Yes, chickens. City officials spent about three hours discussing the issue Tuesday evening. If anyone can get a copy of the DVD of the meeting, it is worth a few laughs. We may see clips of it on The Daily Show or maybe The Colbert Report.

But that was before I happened to read the 600-word Guest Opinion from U.S. Senator Jon Tester that appeared in his newspaper, the Great Falls Tribune, this morning. This is not actually Tester’s newspaper (he does not own it), but let’s just say there’s a lot of love for him from the Great Falls Tribune.

The title of the Guest Opinion is “Congressmen refuse to work together, don’t solve problems” but that was the title the Tribune gave it as Tester gave it the title “Congress must cut spending responsibly” on his website. Newspapers can do stuff like that.

Back in November 2010, The Western Word named Jon Tester the number one most vulnerable Senator running in 2012. Now several other groups have followed along. Guest opinions like this one lend a lot of support to the title of most vulnerable. Continue reading →