City and County Government
The Garden City seems an unlikely place for a fashion foot to take hold.
Fashion in Missoula? We’ve got turtlenecks and jeans-under-skirts and those (406) hoodies and the ugly but comfortable Keen. I really want one of those (406) hoodies, but not ’cause I think they’re the latest and greatest in style. More like they’re cozy [...]
Mayor John Engen’s proposed 2011 budget includes an estimated $1.11 million in “offsets and reductions.”
That’s according to this spreadsheet from city finance director Brentt Ramharter.
The cuts include travel, training, subscriptions, supplies, gasoline, “professional services” (out-of-town consultants who study things?), salaries, police officers, insurance and more.
The Missoula Police Department chopped two traffic officer positions for a [...]
Missoula Outdoor Cinema wraps up the season this weekend with an extra show. “Mamma Mia!” plays Friday evening in the old Whittier School playground on the Northside. “The Dark Knight” runs Saturday night.
Zut alors, this event rocks and has got to be one of the coolest things going on in the neighborhood. There’s even a [...]
Don Nicholson turned up this week at the Missoula City Council meeting, and the former councilman offered some ideas for budget cuts.
City budget talks sometimes stay in the realm of the philosophical, but Nicholson got down and dirty on dollars in Council Chambers.
He said the amount of money budgeted for the pools has some padding [...]
The Missoula City Council agenda is a doozy this week.
Carmike Cinemas wants to add 800 seats and a couple big screens in an expansion, plus bike and car parking. (And “pedestrian facilities,” although I haven’t read committee minutes and am not sure what that means. A shoe shine station like at the airport?)
The city wants [...]
In Missoula, economic recovery is slow but under way. (Supposedly.) That’s what an economist said in this story about growth the next three years in the Missoula area.
It’s baby steps for Missoula, evidently. The information came from the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana.
Montana didn’t fare as well as predicted [...]
Missoula City Cemetery funds were on the agenda this week at the spirited council meeting. (Nope, I never thought I’d write a headline like the one above. A national cemetery magazine?)
Cemetery Board Chairwoman Sharee Fraser talked about why the cemetery is cooperating with the administration’s request that revenue once headed into cemetery accounts go into [...]
Trucking enormous loads through Missoula for the Kearl Module Transportation project is about to get pricier. I was wondering what we’d get out of the deal (if?) when Imperial Oil/Exxon Mobil haul gigantic loads in and out of the Garden City.
To be honest, I wasn’t mulling it over last week. (Vacation!) But I’d wondered before [...]
Missoula’s dog leash laws are still taking shape, and the draft hasn’t yet hit the desks of Missoula City Council members.
One thing’s already clear, though, at least to Councilwoman Marilyn Marler.
“Overall, we need more personnel on animal control or more tickets being written,” Marler said. “That’s not just specific to open space. It’s something we [...]
Well, let’s start out by saying this is perhaps the smallest sample population ever. But here you go anyway, and take it for what it’s worth.
City Clerk Marty Rehbein has 13 emails* and one written comment on the special districts. She reviewed the comments over the phone, and it seems like it’s a mixed bag.
One [...]
