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Tonight on Montana Evening Edition; Thursday, February 28th
The U-S House today passed a far-reaching extension of the Violence Against Women Act. The bill that's now on the way to President Obama's desk renews a 1994 law that supporters say set the gold-standard for protecting victims of domestic abuse. Despite expressing some concerns about an older version of VAWA during the election, Montana congressman Steve Daines supported the version passed today by the House. In tonight's feature interview with Edward O'Brien, the executive director of YWCA Missoula, Cindy Weese, explains why VAWA is so important to efforts to curb the scourge of domestic abuse.
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Tonight on Montana Evening Edition, February 27th
A daylong panel at the University of Montana tomorrow will look at two cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, that could have a lasting impact on how the Clean Water Act is implemented. The cases originated in Oregon and pit the logging industry versus conservationists in a battle over water quality. In tonight's feature interview, News Director Sally Mauk talks with two attorneys involved in the case, from opposite sides. Chip Murray is with the National Alliance of Forest Owners. Chris Winter is with the Crag Law Center. Winter says the suit addresses stormwater discharges from logging roads -
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Tonight on Montana Evening Edition, February 26th
Shirlene Davis grew up in a musical family in New Jersey and Joy W'Njuguna grew up in a family of tea merchants in Kenya. Now they are based in Nashville, Tennessee, headquarters of their company "Royal Tea of Kenya," which markets tea grown in Kenya to the United States. Missoula has been added to that market - and in tonight's feature interview, they talk with News Director Sally Mauk about tea - and about empowering women...
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Tonight on Montana Evening Edition; Monday, February 25th
The Montana Supreme Court and the State Bar of Montana report an increase in the number of attorneys who reported providing legal services last year for free, or at significantly reduced rates.
The State's 2012 attorney pro bono report shows almost 17-hundred Montana attorneys volunteered over 140-thousand hours of pro bono services to low income Montanans across the state. That amounts to about 18-million-dollars worth of work.
In tonight's feature interview with Edward O'Brien, the executive director of the State Bar of Montana, Chris Manos, explains why that's important...
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Tonight on Montana Evening Edition, February 22nd
Tonight on "Capitol Talk", our weekly legislative analysis program, News Director Sally Mauk talks with Lee newspaper reporters Chuck Johnson and Mike Dennison about gay rights, tax credits, hiring preferences, capital punishment, gun rights, and one good deed....
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