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missoulian.com — HELENA - Eleven months into Gov. Brian Schweitzer's first year on the job in 2005, a panel of lawmakers tasked with fixing Montana's broken, unconstitutional school funding system crashed and burned. The full Legislature also failed earlier that year to craft a solution, leaving key education players angry and disappointed with the Schweitzer administration, over the funding and other education issues.

missoulian.com — A measure to protect the North Fork of the Flathead River from energy development won rare bipartisan committee support Tuesday and now heads for the full Senate. "In this particular Congress, it's always a big deal when a bill gets reported out unanimously," National Parks Conservation Association legislative analyst Elise Ligouri said Wednesday.

missoulian.com — YELLOW BAY - Time capsules were meant to be opened, and the one from 1967 discovered during the recent renovation of the Elrod Building at the University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station was. Now, they're going add some items from 2013 and put it back where they found it.

missoulian.com — WHITEFISH - A conservation group and a lumber company have agreed on a plan prohibiting further development on 3,000 acres of land in the Haskill Basin watershed outside Whitefish. Under the arrangement announced Wednesday, the Trust for Public Land will purchase a conservation easement on the property owned by F.H.

missoulian.com — To improve traffic flow and enhance safety on the Milwaukee Trail, the city of Missoula will apply lane and shoulder striping to the trail on Friday, weather permitting. The Missoula Street Division will be striping sections of the trail from Russell Street to Davis Street between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m.