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Op ed: The Stillwater County Commissioners aren’t doing their jobs

Posted on August 25, 2018 by davidjkatz

This op ed appeared in the Stillwater County News on August 23, 2018.

“The Commissioners aren’t doing their jobs. Instead of trying to make new law on behalf of the oil and gas industry, what they should be doing is working with Stillwater landowners to protect the Beartooth Front.” Continue reading →

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ACTION ALERT: Please contact the Stillwater County Commissioners to stop them from taking landowner rights

Posted on February 21, 2018 by davidjkatz

Not content just to block Beartooth Front landowners from setting regulations that would protect their own properties, the Stillwater County Commissioners have devised a policy that will forever keep any local landowners from using their rights under Montana state law. The policy will be voted on after a public hearing in Columbs at 9:30am on March 6.

The Commissioners tried to sneak this policy past the public on January 24, but were stopped when local landowners forced them to follow their own policy on public notice.

This is not a policy. It is just a way to keep landowners from exercising their rights under the law.

The Commissioners have asked for public comment. This is where you come in. Please click the link and let them know how feel. Continue reading →

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Stillwater County Beartooth Zone: The Commissioners’ position is not only illegal, it is completely undemocratic

Posted on February 8, 2018 by davidjkatz

The Stillwater County Commissioners seem dead set on fighting County taxpayers in court to protect the rights of outsiders. No county in the history of Montana has ever taken their position, it is untested in court, and it is completely undemocratic and unfair.

To see how undemocratic the Commissioners’ position is, this post looks at two actual properties in the proposed zone.

No matter how County Attorney Nancy Rohde and the Commissioners try to spin it, there is no principle of law or justice in the United States of America in which a vacation cabin on a half acre should have 33 times the voice of a 1500-acre ranch that has been owned by the same family for 108 years.

To find out how to contact the people responsible for this nonsense, read the post. Continue reading →

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