Archive for July, 2007
by Pete Talbot “You don’t fill a pothole different as a Republican or Democrat.” Those words came from former Missoula County Commissioner Barbara Evans. I’ve heard them before, in various versions, from city and county officials for many years now. And I suppose those words are true. But how you budget for roads and maintenance, [...]
by jhwygirl This is just too timely to pass up a quick post. The median home price in Jackson Hole Wyoming has jumped from $1 million in April of this year to $1.18 million in just three months. At this time last year it was $920,000. The current median reflects an increase of 28% in [...]
by Jay Stevens In yesterday’s post on bike lanes on 5th and 6th street, I mentioned that there’s a completely-unofficial-but-very-cool listserv email thread on city business that anyone can subscribe to and participate in. I neglected to give out a web address where you can subscribe. Here it is: Missoulagov.org. Subscribe. Discuss. Be good citizens.
by Jay Stevens I admit I don’t read my Missoula City Council listserv discussions as often as I should. It’s a great idea, to start a correspondence between City Council members and the public on issues pertaining to the city. (Just a reminder: none of the correspondence is official business and should not be construed [...]
by Pete Talbot A few updates on the local political scene: First, kudos to Ross Best for requesting that the public be allowed to comment on Republican Commissioner Barbara Evans’ replacement. Just a few seconds before a vote on Monday to appoint Larry Anderson to the commission, Best, who was in the audience, suggested three [...]
by jhwygirl Driving west from Missoula, many of you may have seen the billboards for Frenchtown Rural Fire District (FRFD) advertising for volunteers. It’s not very often you see big expensive billboards used to put out a call for volunteers, so it’s pretty plain to see that FRFD is hurting for volunteers for an important [...]
by jhwygirl Ok, I have to admit, I’m a bit excited. Feeling a little guilty about it – after all, it’s just vehicle – but nonetheless, I wish the darn thing were here already. I’ve been waiting a month and a half. I take delivery on Tuesday. Because my brother (who really spoils me, quite [...]
by jhwygirl NewWest.net is reporting that Barbara Evans has announced her retirement, effective August 30th. {{happy happy, joy joy}} I’ve got no love for Barbara – having watched her over the years, I can direct you to this post which sums up what I’ve come to see from her. It will be real interesting to [...]
by jhwygirl The Helena Independent Record is reporting that Helena is in the running for a new operations center that General Electric is apparently looking to house in Montana. A 150 employee Commerce Finance division needs a new home, and apparently there are 4 cities in Montana that General Electric is considering. The HIR indicates [...]
by Pete Talbot The next obituary you see in the Missoulian may be the Missoulian itself – along with the Helena Independent-Record, Billings Gazette, Ravalli Republic and Butte’s Montana Standard. I’m guessing that the loyal readers of this blog site don’t follow the day-to-day New York Stock Exchange listings of the newspaper publishing industry. I [...]
by Pete Talbot Some ruminations on last week’s Democratic Central Committee meeting here in Missoula. I’m posting a little past deadline. I’m blaming my lethargy on the heat. First of all, there was unanimous consent for supporting the troop withdrawal resolution that will be on November’s ballot. (Granted, there were only about twenty people at [...]
by jhwygirl At Monday nights council meeting, one of the more mundane tasks was accepting 2 bits of open space from the Pleasant View subdivision (over behind Home Depot) as city parks. Pleasant View was reviewed in the County some time ago, with expectations that it would be annexed to the city. Jackie Corday, City [...]
by jhwygirl This is cross-posted at MontanaNetroots. Governor Brian Schweitzer announced yesterday that he will be directing that the flag be lowered to half-mast when a Montana member of the Armed Forces is killed in the line of duty. On June 29th, Congress signed into law the Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks Federal Flag Code [...]
by Jay Stevens New West’s Jessica Mayrer wrote a profile of Chou Moua, a Hmong farmer and lumber mill worker who’s often seen at the Farmer’s Market. It’s a decent, if shallow, story about a Missoulian who comes from a people who are not only fascinating, but integral to the city. You may remember I [...]
by jhwygirl Ward 2 Councilman John Hendrickson bit back at tonight city council meeting, attacking critics of his amendment (at July 2nd’s city council meeting) which removed the West Broadway corridor from the Northside/Westside Neighborhood Plan Update. The neighborhood plan, which underwent years of comment and input from community and public leaders, has cost Missoula [...]
by jhwygirl Stimson Lumber Mill’s plywood workers punched the clock on their last shift Friday, in the final end the plywood production of the plant. A Missoulian article on Friday detailed the shocking news that the productive and profit-making Duratemp production is also being shut down – its patent, held by Stimson, now sold to [...]
by Pete Talbot MISSOULA, Mont., July 5, 2007 – A record 102 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Missoulian, breaking the old record by five degrees. Hot enough for all you neocon naysayers, Libertarian hacks and corporate whores who deny global warming? Sure, sure – one day of extreme heat isn’t proof. But there’s other news [...]
by jhwygirl A resolution to form an SID (Special Improvement District) within the University area, for placement of 13 traffic calming circles appears on Monday night council’s consent agenda. Traffic circles were requested for this area by a majority of the residents. And at a neighborhood council meeting, attending by Phil Smith, Bike/Ped Coordinator for [...]
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