Archive for March, 2008
by Jay Stevens Montana expatriate, Pat Malach, found a link to SlateVideo’s nomination for “America’s Stupidest Bike Lane.” Honestly, about the only thing going for it is its length. Which is short. What’s the stupidest bike lane in Missoula? My vote is the bike lane going southbound over the Orange Street Bridge, which ends when [...]
by Jay Stevens Recently I wrote about Kim’s grandfather, Fred Geyzer, and his remarkable story. I just discovered today that the complete interview I quoted from in that post is online, complete with historical documents relating to the Tetiev Pogrom. It’s definitely worth a read…
by jhwygirl A pleasantly surprising thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning, the Washington Post’s politics blog, The Fix, has listed 4&20 blackbirds as one of Montana’s entries into the Best of the State Politics Blog. Chris Clizza has been writing The Fix since October 2005. Before that, he was with Roll Call, [...]
by Pete Talbot Which does a better job of serving democracy: the (dying) newspaper industry or the (surging) Internet and its related blogs? “… it is impossible not to wonder what will become of not just news but democracy itself, in a world in which we can no longer depend on newspapers to invest their [...]
by jhwygirl At least locally, it seems. I got this yesterday: This week the mortgage insurance companies changed their critria on the loans they would insure. They will no longer insure 100% loans-and the 80/20 (100%) are also no longer available. The only 100% financing available is for VA loans (if you are a veteran) [...]
by jhwygirl I read Doug regularly. Don’t always agree, but I certainly don’t always disagree. Scary stuff. I’m talking about his post.
by jhwygirl It should be quite an affair at the Milltown bluff, high over the confluence of the Clark Fork and the Blackfoot rivers. I bet there will even be a few champagne corks popped. For the first time in a little over 100 years (I recall a 1903 news clipping being sent a while [...]
by Jamee Greer Walking back and forth across Higgins Bridge today, I watched the raising of the Wilma’s new sign – a retro throwback that looks great, but sort of reminded me of something. Joe Nickel points out exactly what that something is on his blog, nickellbag. Customers waiting in line ahead of me at [...]
by Pete Talbot You can’t blame Missoula Republicans for bringing in a big name speaker to help raise funds for the party. Democrats do it, too. I can’t think of worse choice than Karl Rove, though. Remember Valerie Plame? She was the CIA operative who was outed by the Bush administration in an attempt to [...]
by Jay Stevens Worden’s has halvah. Halvah’s a Middle Eastern and South European candy made of sesame pasted sweetened with sugar. It’s crumbly and rich and goes well with coffee. I usually get some when I see it – it’s not my favorite sweet, it tends to stick to my teeth, and it’s so rich [...]
by jhwygirl Via Newwest, Courtney Lowery reports that the Hillary campaign has announced a stop in Missoula next Sunday, April 6th – the day after the state Democrat’s Mansfield-Metcalf dinner in Butte. It took Obama a couple of days to commit to the M-M dinner, which he did after Hillary announced she was coming – [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz Do you remember those Mayan priests who needed to cleanse a sacred temple of the bad spirits created by Bush’s presence? Should we pool our money and hire those guys to purify the Doubletree after Karl Rove leaves Wednesday night?
by Rebecca Schmitz Poof! Another Missoula restaurant has vanished. According to New West, 515 closed its doors earlier this week. I realize I’m behind the curve on this news; other Missoulians noticed before I did. I only happened to find out because I was perusing New West during a quiet moment at work yesterday afternoon. [...]
by jhwygirl I have been putting off for weeks a good thorough move-the-furniture, wash the blankets, shake the rugs and get together at least 3 bags of stuff for the Salvation Army cleaning of the place. Since the weather service is promising a 50+ degree for tomorrow, I’m thinking I better get after it today [...]
by Rebecca Schmitz What’s the good of writing for a local blog if you can’t use it to crow about your close friends’ accomplishments? That’s why I’m tickled pink to post a link to my friend Molly Murphy’s interview with Skylar Browning in the Indy this week about her show at the Missoula Art Museum, Reservations Required. Since my [...]
by jhwygirl Roy Brown, Republican candidate for Governor (along with is buddy Steve Daines) offered up this decisive position on Rick Jore’s constitutional initiative which seeks to give rights to human embryos: Brown says he is undecided about a proposed constitutional initiative that would define a person as “a human being at all stages of [...]
by jhwygirl The Federal Highway Administration is seeking comments on its FEIS for its Preferred Alternative for road improvements for Miller Creek. After years of meetings and engineering studies and statistics, the Preferred Alternative is what is there now -with some widened lanes. How many millions did they spend to come to that conclusion? There’s [...]
by jhwygirl The release says temporarily – up to 12 months. Yeah, right. It gets nastier – KPAX is reporting that Jeff Weber, Stimson’s Vice-President of Manufacturing, said that “a shortage of raw logs and a slumping U.S. housing market are to blame for the closing of the mill.” A shortage of raw logs? He’s [...]
by jhwygirl Ann Mary Dussault, County Administrator and former County Commissioner, was asked by Missoulian reporter Keilla Szpaller, for a story covering the numerous bonds and levy requests coming before the voters in the November election, about the regional 911 center: “It’s way too early for us to be telling the public what the project [...]
by jhwygirl He said it. Very well, I might add. Don Pogreba has declared his candidacy for Governor.
by jhwygirl We all hear about it – many pooh-pooh it. There are plenty of reasons to hate it – the nasty ways it can promote a lie; the subtle ways it can influence an election; the self-promoting protections it affords its own corporate interests. Here’s a local story. G. George Ostrom was terminated by [...]
by jhwygirl A long-term free fall of the Missoula housing market along with all the foreclosures, collapse of the mortgage and banking industry and recession that goes along with it. Long term. She says “Missoulapolis continues to see the glass as half-full, portending free-market affordable housing in Missoula in five years. Yes, it can happen [...]
by jhwygirl Changes, yes we have changes….. Our categories were getting quite lengthy, and so was our blogroll too – the result is this test of a new configuration to a 3-column presentation. The bestest thing I wanted to add was a recent comment list and a search engine. That should make it easy for [...]
by jhwygirl The Mayor’s Community Discussion of Housing meeting was held this past Thursday. City Council chambers were packed with a wide variety of members of the community with varying views – from Councilman Dick Haines and University curmudgeon Lee Clemensen to Andrea Davis of the Missoula Housing Authority and local developer Perry Ashby. It [...]
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