Thursday, June 14, 2007

Montana Main Street Blog on the Montana legislative session

For those who haven't read them, the last couple of Montana Main Street Blog posts have been valuable codas to the recent legislative session.

A lot of work went into the Montana Chamber Voting Review that MMSB links to -- and whether one agrees with the scoring system used or not (we basically do,) the raw data is there to summarize the voting records on a variety of business-related bills.

The review of the veto-override process (or rather absence of one) was especially revealing -- one would think that this sort of fact-based questioning would be simple meat-and-potato stuff for the Montana media, but if it's out there, we haven't run across it.

There were a lot of questions that weren't asked during the session -- a lot was going on and there are only so many reporters, but one would think that in-depth stories on particular important pieces of legislation would be appearing little by little after the session.