Our View: Cooler heads prevailed in pool deal

Congress is in the public eye a lot lately for its stalemate with President Barack Obama over the mandated cuts that resulted from last year's pre-election deal.

But Havre has had its own version of political stalemate, the decade-long battle over who should pay how much for the operation of the community swimming pool.

The debate gets into complicated technicalities, but the long and short of it is the city has wanted Hill County to pay more and the county has wanted to pay less to the city.

The debate has been loud. It's been argued out in court, in City Council chambers and in the pages of...