Archive for February, 2008
by Rebecca Schmitz The glow from the chandeliers and pendants at Western Montana Lighting provided an interesting backdrop for the introduction of the Brown-Daines ticket to Missoula voters yesterday, if only because of irony. The candidates were surrounded by light on Reserve Street, but Steve Daines’ far, far-right politics will drag Montana back into the [...]
by jhwygirl Lost in the horrible murder story and the subsequent kudos that went to the local and other law enforcement agencies working on the murder at Copper Run apartments were the actions of an anonymous neighbor who saw her neighbor scrubbing blood off of the third floor walkway. She could have turned the other [...]
by jhwygirl Monday night’s pragmatic city council meeting brought us not only the vote which canned any discussion towards putting a $9 million tax levy on the next ballot – which, after I heard the discussion, I found myself in agreement – but also the unveiling of a mini-documentary on affordable housing by Mayor John [...]
by jhwygirl Myron Cope, longtime radio announcer and the Pittsburgh Steelers biggest fan passed away today. He was 79. Myron was the father of The Terrible Towel – a tradition he started during the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers quest for their first Superbowl ring. Today, sports stadiums across the world now twirl their own towels. Cope [...]
by jhwygirl Tomorrow night, City Council will take the steps towards moving forward with very early plans for a new regional park at Fort Missoula. The consideration for tomorrow night is approval of $90,000 for design development which would provide cost estimation and a phasing plan for 25 acres of what may eventually be an [...]
by Pete Talbot Missoulian reporter Michael Moore writes in a Sunday column about some of the changes taking place in the modern newspaper newsroom. Not only are reporters writing stories, they’re shooting video (and recording audio), and then editing and posting that video and audio. And they’re blogging, too. I once had a client ask [...]
by jhwygirl Here and Here.
by Jay Stevens We’ve had some pretty rousing bike talk here at the b’birds, mainly from motorists who claim that bicyclists — who don’t pay any gas tax — are freeloaders on the city streets. Naturally, I disagree. Bikes don’t require the streets that cars do, bikes don’t wear down the streets. Still, the question [...]
by jhwygirl KPAX reported tonight that the recent Envision Missoula transportation planning meetings suffered a glitch in the nifty hand-held computer devices which collected data from the participants at the Wednesday evening session. Because of that glich – the consultant’s computer crashed, loosing the collected data – Mike Kress, Senior Transportation Planner, said that another [...]
by jhwygirl I’d link to the article in the Missoulian, but they didn’t even bother to provide the website…I had to go googling. Oh, the sacrifices I do for our readers! All for free! Seems UM’s Monte is nominated as one of the possible mascots for Electronic Arts soon-to-be-released Wii version of NCAA Football 09. [...]
by Pete Talbot Last weekend, congressional candidate Jim Hunt stopped by a seminal meeting of the Progressive Democrats of Montana (PDM) to introduce himself. That in itself impressed me. (More on PDM in the near future.) “My values are markedly different than Rehberg’s,” the Democratic candidate said. It was an all-to-brief meeting with Hunt — [...]
by Jay Stevens Keila Szpaller of the Missoulian related the recent meeting of the city’s Transportation Policy Coordinating committee, which mulled congestion on Highway 93, from Missoula to Florence. The committee, which looks at transportation in a regional context, heard an update on a state study of U.S. Highway 93 from Florence to Missoula. The [...]
by Jamee Greer As if there wasn’t already enough on the internet to distract me from schoolwork, Missoula’s blogosphere is kinda stepping on the gas with fresh startups lately. It couldn’t be happening at a better time, as my friend Audra has helped structure my procrastination by introducing me to Google Reader, keeping each of [...]
by Jay Stevens Kudos to Brian Morgan and Adventure Life Journeys for winning the “inaugural Employer of Choice” award, decided by the Missoula Job Service Employer’s Council. Deborah Gass, a business consultant at the Missoula Job Service, said the company was selected for its range of hiring and retention practices. Adventure Life offers flex time, [...]
by Jamee Greer A new arrival to the Westside, I’ll be showing up this Tuesday for the first NS/WS Neighborhood Meeting of ’08! Fellow neighbors from from the Northside and Westside, now’s your chance to get involved! Of the twelve members of Missoula’s City Council, six were once involved with the Neighborhood Councils. It’s a [...]
by jhwygirl GeeGuy at Electric City Weblog has a piece up that essentially defends Rehberg’s inexcusable homophobic behavior during a Middle East congressional delegation trip in February. The problem is that his whole piece fails to recognize how damned offensive Rehberg’s actions were to the LGBT community. He equates my piece purely with Senator Larry [...]
by jhwygirl Lovely. Via The Hill, LiTW, Montana Netroots, the Helena Independent, KPAX, Great Falls Tribune, KXMC (North Dakota!), we all get a sense of Denny’s sense of humor: When you’re from Montana, it’s hard to find things to do — so practical jokes come in handy. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) recently played a gag [...]
by jhwygirl I don’t know, but I’m betting fascists hate to be called fascists. Keith Olbermann speaks for me.
by jhwygirl This information comes to us via Jordan Hess’ Discovering Transit in Missoula. Jim Lieter, Community Affairs Director for the MBIA, sent out a letter calling on its apparently under-represented members (along with those other under-represented people like realtors and those in the business community) to “TURN OUT AS MANY BUSINESS PEOPLE AS WE [...]
by jhwygirl No matter how you run the numbers on the remaining primaries and caucus’, neither Hillary or Obama gains the necessary number of delegates. While this CNN story says “neither candidate is likely to gather the delegates necessary,” in its election coverage last night CNN went through endless number of scenarios (with a nifty [...]
by dharmagrrl With the g-friend sick and sub-freezing temperatures outside, I have been consuming a lot of hot tea lately. So imagine my shock and horror the other day when I reached for my newest tea and was absentmindedly reading the label and read the words on the box top, “From the Fields of Five [...]
by jhwygirl Boy I screwed this one up – I had scheduled this post to be done on the Thursday before the meetings, but I put it in March instead of February. So this is a late notice, and I apologize…. Envision Missoula will be holding meetings tomorrow and Thursday to bring Missoula its results [...]
by jhwygirl Senator McCain is on CNN right now with his victory speech tonight – I think he was in Virginia (?) – and boy, does he just put me to sleep. He speaks with an intonation of an elementary school teacher. It’s not the first time I’ve thought this – Sunday mornings I listen [...]
by Jay Stevens Steve Edgar today defended himself and his Hooters’ restaurant in the Missoulian, just as he did here on 4&20 blackbirds. (I’m still awaiting news that Rebecca and Patia will be taking Steve up on his invitation and visiting the restaurant and reporting back!) I don’t think any of us think the restaurant [...]
by Pete Talbot Good news but a bit incomplete. I had two emails in my inbox this morning with this update: Jim Hunt is announcing his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Unless another Democrat gets into the race and beats Hunt in the primary — an unlikely scenario — Hunt will face Montana’s [...]
by Jay Stevens The ‘flu is going around Missoula. Even the Missoulian noticed: Missoula County had a slow start to the flu season, but it’s picking up now. The Missoula City-County Health Department is also seeing an increase in the number of reported flu cases and a slew of gastroenteritis viruses, otherwise known as the [...]
by Pete Talbot I thought readers might be interested in taking this climate change survey from the Montana Environmental Quality Council. (This is a real survey, unlike a Denny Rehberg survey I saw last fall. Rehberg’s was one question long and it read something like this: “If you agree with homosexuals, communists and devil worshipers [...]
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