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...Populism, historically, has been an angry political trope-but a new aw-shucks version of the little guy's lament has been growing out West with the success of candidates like Salazar and Montana's Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer. Asked about alternative fuels in his first debate with Burns, Tester went full-court farmer. "If I weren't here right now," he said, "I'd be out getting a vegetable press so I could press my own oil to burn in my tractors and trucks." There wasn't much Burns could say to that. He had been out-Montana...
...take advantage of the strike. Many taxicabs have been running on flat fares, determined by city “zones,” picking up more than one passenger and sometimes stopping at bus stops, but others profited by charging illegally high amounts for short distances. Francine N. Schweitzer, a commuter from Westchester who was able to take a cab for metered fare from Grand Central Station on the first day of the strike, said her daughter had a taxi driver who tried to charge her $25 to get from the West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers...
Francine N. Schweitzer, a commuter from Westchester who was able to take a cab for metered fare from Grand Central Station this morning, said her daughter had a taxi driver who tried to charge her $25 to get from the West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers refused to comment on fares during the strike...
...Like most schemes for strengthening the nation's energy options, Schweitzer's is equal parts pie-in-the-sky, politically impractical, prohibitively expensive-and worthy of consideration. . "We don't respond to vision in this country. We respond to crisis," he says. "This is big thinking for a farm boy. But if not Montana, who? And if not now, when?"- Reported by Pat Dawson/Billings
...Schweitzer acknowledges some concerns environmentalists and others have about developing state land, but still argues coal-to-diesel plants can be developed with smokestack-free potential. The Billings-based Northern Plains Resource Council says that Schweitzer has not realistically confronted the emissions of heavy metals and other pollution from the would-be plant...