Articles from the March 27, 2001 edition

President George W. Bush had a brief stay in Big Sky country yesterday before leaving this morning for Michigan. Cheers greeted the president along with signs for tax relief now. Bush and his entourage, which included former Gov. Marc Racicot, Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., made the second stop in a three-state trip promoting his tax cut and budget proposals. The message delivered in Billings was clear: Bush will bring the screaming masses more money. The money, Bush said, is from the...

Montanans can play with anyone My Turn I guess Julie Callahan was right back in the mid to late '70s. In an interview with a Montana sports reporter, Havre High's first great girl basketball player said that the state's distaffs could play with anyone. That was after Callahan took the Northwestern women to national prominence. Now we have Loree Payne, a sophomore on a very young Washington Huskies' team. After playing on a national all-star team last summer, Payne suffered a broken foot that limited her playing time and point...