Archive for December, 2008
by problembear happy new year everyone. have a great celebration but will someone please take the trash out before the 20th!
by jhwygirl …but one does have to wonder what he had to say after he hung up on Missoulian reporter Keila Szpaller when she asked about the city’s budget. Apparently it’s not yet been filed with the State of Montana (what does that make it? 6 months overdue?) Bad, bad form, hanging up on a [...]
by problembear after today’s news about falling house prices everyone who makes payments on a mortgage must be wondering just how much farther can they fall. the news isn’t good. economists all say the bottom is still a long way off. stan and angela bought their home in target range over 15 years ago for [...]
by jhwygirl A while back, I asked: How would you improve your local paper? Today, former gubernatoral candidate and every liberal blogger’s favorite, Pogie, of Intelligent Discontent, puts forth a nicely detailed analysis of the general problems, as he sees it, with newspapers. He goes further and talks about what he sees in Helena with [...]
by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. The City of Bozeman is just about ready to open its first homeless shelter. Sounds like it was a very worth labor of love amongst a number of community members. Congratulations on your success. Great Falls nonprofits are using recycling as a method of raising funds. Pacific [...]
by problembear last sunday dec 21st, the national weather service listed the low temperature as -9. Greg Ramsey Baumann slept on the ground in sleeping bags beneath a small ponderosa pine tree next to a park bench. he is gone now and those of us who knew him are coming to terms with it. this [...]
by Pete Talbot Since it’s the holidays and all, I thought I should play nice. But then, silly me, I surfed some conservative blog sites. They’re coming to the defense of poor Jane “let’s throw a wrench in the works” Rectenwald. Ms. Rectenwald has been in the news lately, alleging that the Missoula Office of [...]
by problembear I BLOG; THEREFORE I DON”T EXIST… anyway, i thought it was funny…best of the season to one and all- time to go into two day hibernation mode….may we find a way to peace in the new year.
by problembear don’t step into one of these unless you want to lose an arm and a leg. ed kemmis at the Billings Gazette does a pretty good job of reporting on the payday loan issue in montana. the stars are aligning for some action by the legislature to protect montanans from the scourge of [...]
by jhwygirl I spoke of this fawn I came upon in early October here and here. Here is the picture. The sheepherder trapper that did this never did report it, as I had followed up on about 2 weeks later. It should have had a quick release. Beyond that, in the particulars of this situation, [...]
by jhwygirl Today, after the not-so-regularly scheduled Board of County Commissioner’s regular weekly public hearing (normally it’s on Wednesday but this week it’s moved to Monday because of the Christmas holiday), Michele Landquist will be sworn in as Missoula County’s newest County Commissioner. The ceremony starts around 3 (so the flier says). Come join the [...]
by jhwygirl Now. Which means that days are getting longer and nights are getting shorter. {{Happy dance, happy dance}}
by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. A Billings woman – Blanche Vavra – who passed about 9 months ago and was described as frugal left $2.8 million to various charities. “All she knew about finance was be conservative,” said her former neighbor Jerry Dobesh. “She lived very plain and very sparsely.” What do [...]
by problembear jodi rave is an award-winning writer/reporter for Lee Enterprises and we in missoula have been very lucky to read her for years. her new blog is now up. check it out.
by jhwygirl The Missoulian had an article out yesterday, headlined Regional Economic Outlook Optimistic for State. If you read it, it enters some caveats – like the fact that it doesn’t include data from November or December (the two biggest months of retail sales that push retail “into the black”?) and survey results showing regional [...]
by problembear patrick klemz does a great job of boiling it all down to an essence this week. let’s hope the long delayed upcoming trial in missoula this february brings some justice and helps to herald a new era of punishing bad behavior instead of rewarding it. next up- wall street CEO’s anyone? and lest we [...]
by jhwygirl Otis, an adorable beagle mix – looking a little on the active senior-citizen side – got caught in two traps on Lost Horse Road last week. The traps were 30 feet from the road. Lost Horse Road is located south of Hamilton, and heads eastward into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. His owner, fortunately, was [...]
by jhwygirl Actually, the money arrived at the end of November, but I’ve been waiting to see if there would be any discussion on what the county was going to do with it. Apparently, the County Commissioners have stashed it away without much adieu. PILT (payment in lieu of taxes) payments from the Department of [...]
by jhwygirl Montana District Judge Thomas C. Honzel (disclosure: I’m a fan) issued an opinion today which threw out a water permit issued to a coal-bed methane producer. Honzel said the state permit should not have been issued because it appropriated ground water, and apparently the permit that was issued didn’t even recognize that someone [...]
by jhwygirl On neither the county nor the city website could I find a “Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board,” but in last Thursday’s paper, tucked away in the legal notices on page C8 was this notice: On December 18, 2008 at 12:15 p.m., the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will hold a public [...]
by problembear now after his release let’s hook this guy up with sabathia to do some work on accuracy. may i suggest on Letterman???
by Pete Talbot After reading jhwygirl’s various and sundry for the weekend, I stumbled across a few stories that also deserve attention. First, I get most of my information the old-fashioned way: newspapers. As a matter of fact, most of the nuggets in this post were gleaned from local, regional and national newspapers. So, this [...]
by jhwygirl While I’m not completely cold-hearted and I do sympathize with the situation, someone please explain to me why anyone in Washington – including Rehberg, Tester and Baucus (although the news article doesn’t mention Baucus here) – want to maintain sweetheart real estate deals for cabin lessees on national forest ground? Now, Georgetown Lake [...]
by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread. The City of Helena-Lewis & Clark County Health Board has proposed universal health care. They say their “tired of waiting for national health care reform.” You all heard about the UM professor that was advertising on his tests to help pay for the copy machine, right? Well, [...]
by jhwygirl Remember this post? Well, it peaked Missoulian reporter Keila Szpaller’s interest, and she’s got this interview with failed incumbent PSC candidate Doug Mood up at Missoula Red Tape. Lost on me, but apparently the “O” in “O shit” – which is “O crap” in some other applications – stands for Obama. Mood’s obviously [...]
by problembear gotta say i agree with the denial of the bailout . it is time to get real about what is happening here and stop all this cinderella bail-out business. we cannot afford to prop up businesses that drove straight off the cliff pedal to the metal at 85 mph when they pass right by very readable signs [...]
by Pete Talbot Government officials around Montana have been receiving the email below. I can’t reveal my sources because of the sensitive content. This much is evident: Donny Osmond is a Communist/terrorist sympathizer. I thought this might be an amusing break from politics, the recession, etc., but it’s weird, too — a conspiracy theory on [...]
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