Archive for June, 2007
by Jay Stevens Okay, here’s the final ballot after a rush of last-minute applicants: Here’s the list of candidates for Missoula City Council: Ward 1: Justin Armintrout and Jason Wiener Ward 2: Don Nicholson, Pam Walzer and Dave Huerta Ward 3: Stacy Rye and Doug Harrison Ward 4: Lyn Hellegaard, Denver Henderson, Jerry Ballas, Alan [...]
by Jay Stevens The Missoulian reported our city’s slate of current city council candidates (filing deadline is Thursday). Here’s the outlook. Ward 1: It’s Jason Wiener and Justin Armintrout. In Wards 2 and 3, the incumbents – Don Nicholson and Stacie Rye, respectively – are running unopposed. (Although rumor has another entrant into the Ward [...]
by Pete Talbot What do the Peace Center, New Party and Forward Montana all have in common? You got me. But according to perennial legislative candidate Will Deschamps, in a letter to the Missoulian, these groups want to run your life. I’ll try to keep this post short because I’m not sure the letter dignifies [...]
Deadline for filing for any of the 6 Missoula City Council seats is Thursday, 5 p.m. Tomorrow. Geez, that one snuck up, didn’t it. There are 6 council seats open, one in each ward. Nicholson, Ballas, Rye and Childers will presumably file (or have), with Reidy and Kendall announcing that they won’t be seeking another [...]
Ward 5′s councilman Jack Reidy announced on Monday night that he wouldn’t be seeking reelection for his seat on City Council. Jack has been a fixture on City Council for what seems to be forever. I will miss his stories of ‘old’ Missoula – he always has a way of using them to put things [...]
by jhwygirl Unbenownst to me, the city council resolution on placing a referendum before Missoula City voters calling for an orderly and quickened withdrawal of troops from Iraq had a co-sponsor. Ward 3′s Councilwoman Stacy Rye co-sponsored the resolution along with Bob Jaffe, also of Ward 3…she, in fact, played a big role in putting [...]
by jhwygirl In what might be described as an atypical city council meeting for the Garden City, Missoulians from both sides of the Iraqi war discussion filled city council chambers and waited patiently to let their voices be heard on one of the most contentious issues facing all Americans everywhere – continuation of the war [...]
by jhwygirl Tucked into Monday nights city council meeting, new Office of Planning & Grants Director Rogar Millar reminded City of Missoula residents that his department would be initiating and update of the city zoning and subdivision regulations with a meeting – including refreshments – at the Broadway Building conference room at St. Patrick’s Hospital [...]
by Pete Talbot Missoula City Council voted 6-6 and Mayor John Engen cast the deciding vote to put an Iraq War troop withdrawal resolution on the November ballot. But that’s the short story. It was a thoughtful, emotional and mostly civil evening. Twenty-six people spoke in favor of the resolution and 17 spoke against. It [...]
by jhwygirl In a contentious City Council meeting last Tuesday, June 20th, Great Falls Mayor Dona Stebbins had Susan Overfield removed, forceably (via 3 plain clothed police officers), for violating a 3-minute public comment rule. Apparently there is nothing in Great Falls that is worthy of anything more than 3 minutes of comment from any [...]
Missoula City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted yesterday, 5-3, to take Councilman Bob Jaffee’s resolution calling for a referendum vote by the citizens of the City of Missoula, which calls on Congress to fund a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. In a testy committee meeting, Councilmen Jack Reidy and Jon Wilkins expressed [...]
by jhwygirl Missoula County Commissioners voted, unanimously, to spend $304,500 of its open space bond money towards purchasing conservation easements on two properties in the Blackfoot drainage. One was a 3,250 acre easement on Sunset Hill near Greenough, adjacent to a 4,000 acre conservation easement held by the Potter family – known for its environmentally [...]
by jhwygirl Ward 3′s councilman Bob Jaffe has criticized the city’s budget process in both an email and in an article in the Missoulian. Councilmen Haines, Hendrickson, Wilkins and Ballas have chimed in also in agreement, an odd alliance, really. The gist of Jaffe’s complaint is that the budget is essentially ‘set’ when it gets [...]
by Pete Talbot Here’s a brief update on Jay’s June 7 post about various Montana cities drafting resolutions to get us out of Iraq. His big question was: where the hell is Missoula on this? Helena’s City Commission voted unanimously to put a referendum on the ballot this November. Butte is actually the first city [...]
by jhwygirl NARAL Pro-Choice Montana is collecting signatures for a full-page ad it plans to place in the Great Falls Tribune. There’s great coverage of this story over at Left in the West (from Allyson, and another from Planned Parenthood of Montana) and MontanaNetroots (from Shane, who has apparently raised the ire of the anti-birth [...]
by jhwygirl I had mentioned to Jay that I might do a semi-regular roundup of local news happenings across the state. Consider this a first edition. If you’ve got something you want covered, go ahead and send me what you got at jhwygirl at hotmaildotcom. Put ‘news roundup’, or something similar, in the subject field, [...]
by Jay Stevens From a press release in my email inbox, via Jackie Corr: Today the Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners voted 8 – 4 to pass a resolution calling for a “rapid and comprehensive withdrawal” from Iraq. Butte is the first Montana city to call for the withdrawal of troops, and joins hundreds of [...]
by jhwygirl Prequel: Matthew Koehler, of the Wild West Institute, presents a maddeningly insane picture of Lee Newspapers in a comment to my previous post on Stimson Lumber. As I read it I just wanted to jump and scream. He and I take two different roads and come to an agreement on at least one [...]
by jhwygirl Darn good news out of Ravalli County this morning, folks. Darn good. Ravalli County elected two new Democrats and one Independent (and throwing out one Republican) yesterday night in a special election held to fulfill the need to meet the citizen-initiated changes to the Board of County Commissioners (which changed the number from [...]
by Pete Talbot Writer John Adams has a side bar in the Missoula Independent (May 24-May 31 issue) on Missoula’s Republican Representative Bill Nooney. It paints him as a consensus building, moderate sort of fellow. If you look at his voting record, he definitely is not. He voted lock step with the most radical elements [...]
By jhwygirl In an upcoming post (or posts) I will have some thoughts on the Stimson Lumber mill situation. I’ll also have some thoughts on what I believe are the failures of the local Missoula media in reporting the issue. I felt a need to explain why it matters – and thus the following post. [...]
By jhwygirl A late breaking AP story is reporting that Governor Schweitzer met with Mike Kadas and other representatives of Montana Public Power, Inc., and has agreed to see what assistance, if any, his staff can offer towards helping MPPI purchase Northwestern Energy. MPPI includes 5 cities – Bozeman, Butte-Silverbow, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula [...]
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