The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) articles from March 2005

The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) archives from March 2005

Billings Gazette, Mont., Jan Falstad column.
March 6, 2005... Byline: Jan Falstad Mar. 6--This isn't the first time, but Billings Logan Airport may be slated for cuts in air traffic control hours. Billings may be among 50 airports of similar size that could see its control tower closed between...

Billings, Mont., entrepreneur makes a living out of pooper scooping.
March 6, 2005... Byline: Linda Halstead-Acharya Mar. 6--To most of us, it stinks. To Steve Syndergaard, it smells like money. Syndergaard is the owner/scooper of Pooper Patrol, a new business that promises to "get you out of the brown and into the...

Counties lay groundwork for seamless, statewide communication system.
March 13, 2005... Byline: Linda Halstead-Acharya Mar. 13--In the end, Montanans should be safer. In the mean time, counties are struggling to lay the groundwork for a statewide communication system that will cost millions of dollars and is still years from...

Influence of mom's Southern Creole cooking to Roberts' career as chef.
March 13, 2005... Byline: Susan Olp Mar. 13--In the intimate setting that is Q Restaurant in downtown Billings, executive chef Daniel Roberts delights in creating masterpieces. "Italian food is my first love, and then I would say American Southern...

Ethanol producer wants to do business in Montana, but price is a concern.
March 20, 2005... Byline: Jim Gransbery Mar. 20--Securing the least expensive feedstock for an ethanol plant is critical because the end product is a price-volatile commodity also, says a successful ethanol producer who would like to do business in Montana....

Ethanol producers would benefit from buying grains in Montana if bill passes.
March 20, 2005... Byline: Jim Gransbery Mar. 20--Builders of an ethanol plant near Hardin say they would welcome the mandatory use of blended gasoline in Montana, but the project is not contingent on the Legislature passing such a law. "It would help,...

Two Montana oil refineries disagree with proposed ethanol blend bill.
March 20, 2005... Byline: Jim Gransbery Mar. 20--Offering consumers a motor fuel with a 10 percent ethanol blend is fine, but do not make it mandatory, executives at two local oil refineries say. That is what representatives for ConocoPhillips and...

Bioscience courtship with New Zealand bearing fruit.
March 20, 2005... Byline: Dave Dewitte Mar. 20--Marcia Rogers hadn't had much success talking up the opportunities for business cooperation between her five-year home of New Zealand and her permanent home of Iowa. Then, she saw a front-page editorial in...

KILL: Bioscience courtship with New Zealand bearing fruit.
March 20, 2005

Heating costs jump less than forecast; bills up by 6 percent.
March 22, 2005... Byline: George C. Ford Mar. 22--While Iowans are paying more to heat their homes this year with natural gas, they won't see the steep increase predicted earlier by the U.S. Department of Energy. MidAmerican Energy Co. on Monday said...

KILL: Heating costs jump less than forecast; bills up by 6 percent.
March 22, 2005

Area gas prices surge to new highs; pocketbook pinch likely to get worse.
March 23, 2005... Byline: Dave Dewitte Mar. 23--The record crude oil prices Celena Turner had been hearing about didn't really settle in until the gasoline pump kicked off at the Vernon Village HandiMart in Cedar Rapids. "That's the highest I've paid,"...

Cedar Rapids, Omaha media companies form new entity.
March 23, 2005... Byline: George C. Ford Mar. 23--CEDAR RAPIDS -- NewRadio Group LLC of Cedar Rapids and Waitt Radio Inc. of Omaha, Neb., have merged to form NRG Media LLC, an affiliate of Waitt Media. NRG Media, based in Cedar Rapids, owns 87 radio...

KILL: Area gas prices surge to new highs; pocketbook pinch likely to get worse.
March 23, 2005

KILL: Cedar Rapids, Omaha media companies form new entity.
March 23, 2005

Hearing on SS provides provocative questions.
March 26, 2005... Byline: Jim Gransbery Mar. 26--The second in command at the Social Security Administration said Friday Congress will get at least one reform bill this year. As to the details of that bill, they will be numerous, said James Lockhart...

Company caters to open-air painters.
March 27, 2005... Byline: Allison Batdorff Mar. 27--CODY, Wyo. -- Open-air painting is hard work. Wind whips away supplies. Rain and snow pelt (and melt) masterpieces. Bugs literally enter the picture. Mountain painters have it especially tough....

Bresnan Communications analysts keep tabs on system via computer network.
March 27, 2005... Byline: Tom Howard Mar. 27--Jim Boelter sometimes describes the sophisticated computer network at the center of the new Bresnan Communications facility in Billings as a living, breathing entity. When you step into the building's...