Archive for September, 2007
by jhwygirl Barry Simon took the trip yesterday. God bless.
by jhwygirl We have the Bush administration that is basically pissing on the Constitution and doesn’t seem to know what habeas corpus means, and people are in an uproar about this? Geez. Maybe we should put some prickly bushes and a fence around the Constitution. (For those of you who’d rather do video, Keith Olberman [...]
by jhwygirl It’s not like we didn’t notice him there in the GOP annual picnic photos Missoulapolis linked to in this post, back on September 12th. Seems like they’ve taken that photo out, though. Wonder how long it will be before his name is removed from her post – which, for posterity, currently says: We [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz There really isn’t much going on this weekend in Missoula. I’ve heard vague rumors about some concert on the UM campus tonight, and a small, unorganized parade tomorrow morning followed by some sort of sporting event in the afternoon. Just in case none of those sketchy events tickle your fancy, there are [...]
by Pete Talbot Ward Three’s Bob Jaffe and his MissoulaGov website make my job a whole lot easier. Here’s his report from Missoula’s Public Safety Committee hearing this week: “Mr. Wilkins made a motion to kill the (chicken) ordinance right out of the gate. Committee Chair Don Nicholson refused to accept the motion since there [...]
by Pete Talbot If I seem to be obsessed with the recent Senate votes on the Iraq War, who can blame me? After all, the Pentagon just asked Congress for another $190 billion in war funding. I wrote about earlier votes a couple days ago. Here are the latest: The Biden (D-DE ) Amendment is [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Bob Keenan is back in Washington today, getting advice from one of the most corrupt members of the Senate, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. Keenan has plans to meet with Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and John Ensign, R-Nev., about a challenge to Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana next year. McConnell is the Senate [...]
by jhwygirl Ward 2 incumbent Don Nicholson, towards the end of yesterday’s council meeting, asked all council members to take a good look at the work that Ward 3′s Bob Jaffe has done on amending the deferral resolution for the proposed Hillview SID. Jaffe has proposed changes that are aimed at reducing the possibility of [...]
by jhwygirl The City is proposing changes to its impact fees by adding a transportation impact fee and reducing other ones. The parks impact fee, for example, is proposed to be cut by 55%. The newly proposed transportation impact fee, on the other hand, is half of what the economic consultants determined the rate should [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Impact fees and SIDs are technically different things, but their purpose is the same: to help fund the necessary infrastructure that specific neighborhoods and the city as a whole requires. You know, like sidewalks, bike lanes, road construction and repair, and the widening (or narrowing) of the same. Either you, as a [...]
by Pete Talbot You need a scorecard to keep track of all the votes on the Iraq War taking place in the U.S. Senate these days. Our Montana Senators have been on the losing end, most times. They also cast a couple of bad votes. On the Webb (D-VA) Amendment to allow more time for [...]
by jhwygirl Seems the County Commissioner’s unanimously denied a secondly attempted subdivision near Clearwater Junction in the Blanchard Creek area. The first attempt was 119 lots on 202 acres – this most recent 59 lots on the same. Now, a ‘kudos’ has to go out to the fairly new Rural Initiatives division of Office of [...]
by jhwygirl No amount of asking, pleading, cajoling, lecturing, begging or attempts at embarrassment over the last 2 years were successful at getting a coworker to vote. Lord knows I tried. But today she called me into her office to announce proudly that she was registering to vote. I looked over and asked her how [...]
by jhwygirl Via Left in the West, Papa 4&20 Jay Stevens highlights the fact that our Senator Max doesn’t quite seem to be assessing the situation in Iraq with eyes wide open: “I and others repeatedly made it clear to the leadership that they’ve got to do a lot more than they are doing now,” [...]
by Pete Talbot Some of the progressive folks I chat with refer to Montana’s lone congressman as George W. Rehberg. That’s because Denny votes lockstep with the president on so many issues: Iraq, the environment, taxes, health care, etc., etc… So I was surprised to see a letter in today’s Missoulian from Rep. Rehberg criticizing [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz It looks like Sweet Baby James is coming to Missoula next month. Thankfully, the Adams Center has learned its lesson from the Elton John debacle (Dare I say Ticketgate? No, too obvious.) According to the Missoulian’s Jamie Kelly, The wristband strategy is out, having been an utter disaster for Missoula’s upcoming Elton [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz I get to travel around the state as part of my job, and because of that I’m in Bozeman tonight. Earlier this evening, I had dinner at a wonderful restaurant, Ferraro’s Fine Italian on North 7th.* Right next to me sat a table of tourists, two elderly couples well into their 70s. [...]
by jhwygirl Benson’s Farm, located at the corner of 7th and Reserve, right here in the Garden City. One of the many highlights of Misdemeanor Meadows (Ward 6) is Benson’s Farm and their luscious collection of oh-so-very-fresh vegetables that they’re practically picking them and placing them directly in your hands. Benson’s is open daily until [...]
by jhwygirl In a recent post on affordable housing – a rising crisis we face here in Missoula – Vice-Chair of the Missoula GOP and former candidate for House District 97 (I remember those lovely blue signs around the neighborhood – the ones that didn’t mention her party affiliation) offers her solution to a 30-year [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Salon.com has an interesting article today about the Bush Administration blaming the Minneapolis bridge collapse on…wait for it…bike paths. Yes, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters claims that money wasted on bike paths nationwide, as well as other projects, could have saved those poor commuters’ lives last month. “There are museums that are being [...]
by jhwygirl Call it what you will, but as promised, I have and will continue to edit comments that use personal attacks such as name-calling. They add nothing and beget further name calling. I let one go the other day – bothered me – and it occurred again tonight, by someone else. Neither added substance. [...]
by jhwygirl Chief Justice John Roberts will be speaking at UM tomorrow, 2 p.m., as part of its School of Law lecture series. The lecture is free and open to the public. In anticipation of an overflow audience, UM will also open the Music Recital Hall. Both Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio will [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Our man, Denver Henderson, may have gone down to defeat in the City Council primary last night, but there is an upside to these election results and it’s all in the numbers. Ward 4 Jerry Ballas 748 Lyn Hellegaard 584 Denver Henderson 479 Alan Ault 403 Joseph Gorsh 128 Whether you voted [...]
by Jay Stevens The results are in: Ward 1: Jason Wiener: 63%; Justin Armintrout: 34% Ward 2: Don Nicholson*: 48%; Pam Walzer: 37%; Dave Huerta: 15% Ward 3: Stacy Rye*: 55%; Doug Harrison: 45% Ward 4: Jerry Ballas*: 32%; Lyn Hellegaard: 25%; Denver Henderson: 20%; Alan Ault: 17%; Joe Gorsh: 6% Ward 5: Renee Mitchell: [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz There are two different stories out there about the special improvement district tax, or SID, proposed for Hillview Way as reported in the Missoulian. Keila Szpaller has one version: “I’m going to probably have to sell my house,” said Linda Frey, who has lived in the neighborhood more than 30 years and [...]
by Pete Talbot That’s what some of the conservative bloggers say could happen with Missoula’s new mail-in ballots. So I thought I’d check with Vickie Zeier, Missoula County’s Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer, to see what the county was doing to stop these nefarious ballot fraudsters. First, the election judges down at the courthouse check the signature [...]
Just a reminder folks to get your ballots to the County Courthouse by 8 p.m. on Tuesday. In order for your vote to count, you must have your ballot at the courthouse by 8 – that means that if you haven’t gotten it into the mail yet, the best bet at getting your vote counted [...]
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