Vic Miller's Commentary - July 24, 2009
I recently returned from a trip to Alaska. Contrary to what you may have heard, I was not up there because Sarah Palin has decided to run for president and was pleading with me to be her running mate.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - June 4, 2009
Twenty years ago, I expressed concern that Montana could lose one of our U.S. Representatives after the results of the 1990 census were tabulated. As you know, every ten years a census is conducted to
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Vic Miller's Commentary - May 14, 2009
Back when the crust of the earth was cooling Larry Petersen and I coached a Little League baseball team. Our games were played at Lissa Field, on the corner of Rimrock and Virginia Lane. Gene Lissa owned
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Vic Miller's Commentary - May 7, 2009
The 2009 regular session of the Montana Legislature has come to a merciful close and lawmakers are back home attempting to blend in with the general population, although on occasion you might spot one
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Vic Miller's Commentary - April 23, 2009
The phone rang and it was my friend Slab Marble, and he was in a real panic. He said he had just heard the government was going to take away his television signals and he wouldn't be able to watch the
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Vic Miller's Commentary - April 9, 2009
It's interesting that there are some things you can't remember and some things you can't forget. I was talking with my friend George Zieg recently and we can both remember our military serial numbers
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Vic Miller's Commentary - April 2, 2009
Every so often, someone will suggest that we should relocate the railroad tracks that run through Billings. In the years that I have lived here, this idea has been recycled at least a dozen times.
In
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Vic Miller's Commentary - March 26, 2009
A number of years ago when I was General Manager of what was then KOOK-TV; I was interviewing a young man for an announcing position. At the time, he gave me a copy of a job application form he had been
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Vic Miller's Commentary - March, 19 2009
When there is a change in the administration in Washington, D.C., there is usually a change in the people who serve as the U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal in various parts of the country.
At the moment,
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Vic Miller's Commentary - March 12, 2009
While browsing the internet the other day I came across a story from New Zealand with the headline, "Barry Manilow to be used against mall rats." Reading further, I learned that mall rats is the term used
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Vic Miller's Commentary - February 27, 2009
One hears a great deal about lobbyists and the role they play in the passage or blockage of various proposals being decided on by elected officials at both the state and federal level.
You may recall,
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Vic Miller's Commentary - February 19, 2009
Those of you who have lived here for more than twenty years can recall when Montana had two members in the U.S. House of Representatives. One represented eastern Montana and one western Montana.
Then
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Vic Miller's Commentary - February, 12 2009
I don't mean to frighten you but the 2009 Montana Legislature is now in session. As many of you know, the legislature meets for 90 days every two years. The fact that they meet for 90 days is in itself
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Vic Miller's Commentary - February 5, 2009
During the last political campaign, I recall listening to a lot of rhetoric about health care reform and what the government's role should be in any changes in the current health care system. In an interview
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Vic Miller's Commentary - January 29, 2009
I was walking down the street the other day and bumped into my friend Slab Marble. I asked him what he was up to, and he said he was putting together a proposal to get some bailout money from the government.
He
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Vic Miller's Commentary - January, 15 2009
I've heard a lot of complaints from people, bemoaning the fact that a number of secondary streets in Billings have been covered with several inches of ice for the past few weeks.
I have not joined in
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Vic Miller's Commentary - January 1, 2009
It's time now for the moment you've been waiting for, or perhaps dreading. My annual "Where Angels Fear to Tread" predictions for the upcoming year.
The year will begin with Ralph Nader announcing that
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Vic Miller's Commentary - December 18, 2008
Whenever I have to fill out one of those forms that asks me to state my occupation, I put down retired. The reason I do that is that I am retired, in spite of the fact that like the groundhog I pop now and then.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - July 3, 2008
Almost every newscast these days has a story about the price of crude oil or the price of gasoline, which started me thinking, which as many of you know can be a dangerous thing.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - June 19, 2008
don't have a clue as to how the stock market will be doing. Because of this, I am not going to talk about the stock market and I am instead going to talk about something I do have a clue about, namely hanging wallpaper.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - June 12, 2008
I was on my way to get a haircut and saw my friend Slab marble sitting in his 1964 Cadillac waiting for the parking meter to expire so the city wouldn't get the best of him. I asked him if he had voted in the recent election.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - June 5, 2008
Montanans recently witnessed one of the most bizarre elections in history. Longtime political gadfly Bob Kelleher, who has run for office about a zillion times under every conceivable party label, won
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Vic Miller's Commentary - May 22, 2008
My friend Slab Marble called recently and said he'd heard the government was thinking of making pennies out of steel.
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Vic Miller's Commentary - May 15, 2008
In the not too distant future, Montana will be holding a primary election. Every time we have a primary we have people complaining that they must choose one party or the other and cannot split their vote.
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