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Kudos to Gazette reporter Ed Kemmick for an excellent set of stories about the Montana Meth Project in the Billings Gazette today. In the stories, Kemmick does what should have been done in the past few years: critically examine the results of the Montana Meth Project, listening to and ......
Intelligent Discontent - 12:47 a.m. - 11 clicks 
by jhwygirl Just a few days ago, Supermontanareporter John S. Adams, of the Great Falls Tribune, gave us the story that an anti-abortion group, headed up with former Ronan Constitution party Rep. Rick Jore, was seeking to put a personhood amendment in the state constitution via three different ballot initiatives. One presumes Jore is all registered an [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Sat 9:49 a.m. - 16 clicks
Clean water. For Missoula residents Said and Sara Hemed, it would be a dream come true if they could finish digging a well in Said's native Zanzibar village so people there could have water to drink and use for washing -- without having to walk a mile to a water pump and haul it back in buckets. Said (pronounced sye'-dee) and his wife, Sara, a Montana native, have other dreams too. They want to p...
New West Missoula - Thu 5:44 p.m.
It’s excellent news that the Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows a decline in the use of meth in Montana. What’s less outstanding is the coverage that the Billings Gazette (and presumably other Lee Newspapers) chose to give the story: The 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ......
Intelligent Discontent - Thu 12:40 a.m. - 9 clicks
by jhwygirl Ravalli County Board of County Commissioners approved a measure that will put a one mill levy on the June 2010 ballot to fund the Valley Veterans Service Center. The center has an annual budget of $39,000, while donations and grants to the non-profit total out at about $26,000. They’ve been struggling for some time, [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Wed 8:25 p.m. - 3 clicks
by Pete Talbot Following on the heels of a New Yorker article I read on global warming, I saw that Rep. Denny Rehberg joined just about every Republican in the U.S House to vote against the modest cap-and-trade, energy and environment bill. I’m guessing Denny doesn’t read the New Yorker. He’d rather get his info [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Tue 8:29 p.m. - 16 clicks
by jhwygirl Boy, I gotta say, I’m a little bummed that Missoulians haven’t been able to push 1,000 New Gardens, Missoula to the top vote getter at Idea Blob…. Voting ends at 10 p.m. tonight folks – so if you’ve been putting it off or whatever, time is a wastin’ (as I say sometimes), so please take [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Tue 12:22 p.m. - 6 clicks
by jhwygirl A week ago I blogged about some of the awards awarded to local Montana print journalists by the Montana Newspaper Association. I didn’t know it (because the MNA doesn’t seem too interested in putting a full listing up on its website), but there were more. The Missoula Independent took home four awards [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Tue 8:24 a.m. - 4 clicks
by jhwygirl With nary an official announcement, I, too, noticed Mike Mansfield’s name at the bottom of one of my more recent emailings from Democratic congressional candidate Tyler Gernant – as did Missoulian reporter Chelsi Moy. She was perplexed – I was pleasantly surprised. Having the nephew of Montana’s former Senator Mike Mansfield heading up the [...] ...
4 and 20 Blackbirds - Mon 9:50 p.m. - 11 clicks
Just as I had been thinking that the Democratic primary had been quiet on the issues front, I read that Dennis McDonald issued a press release advocating a single-payer health plan: According to McDonald, “Families in Montana are struggling, and right now we have the chance ......
Intelligent Discontent - Mon 8:57 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Missoula Downtown Association today announced that the federal government is sending more than $1 million in economic stimulus money to downtown Missoula. The money will be used to beautify and boost user-friendliness on North Higgins Avenue between Broadway and Circle square, providing more safety for cyclists and pedestrians. The ultimate goal? "Creating a more inviting, attractive and int...
New West Missoula - Mon 4:36 p.m. - 6 clicks
Flathead County planners might be saying amen to that this week, in the wake of a lawsuit and ongoing allegations by a group of vocal locals who claim the county and a planning committee conducted a too-secretive planning process that violated Montana's open meeting laws. Planning processes everywhere in the state, it seems, are a battlefield in which elected officials and disgruntled private lan...
New West Missoula - Mon 2:41 p.m. - 6 clicks
Last week I posted a piece about the closing of the downtown Missoula Starbucks, and expressed some ambivalance about the idea that locally owned versus chains was always a black-and-white issue. Today I came across a piece that takes a different kind of look at this issue, arguing that Walmart and Costco are killing the so-called category killer big boxes in product categories such as music, book...
New West Missoula - Mon 11:20 a.m. - 5 clicks
When you look at a map of Glacier Park, Going-to-the-Sun Road looks like the heart rate monitor of a gay Filipino man when he heard that Michael Jackson died. It's as twisted and bent as the plot of a Coen brothers movie. But you should go. For just a few short weeks during the peak of each summer, the entire road is plowed and passable, from West Glacier clear through to St. Mary's (home of the $...
New West Missoula - Mon 10:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
Remember The Hardliner? A blog that is so transparently a GOP astroturf operation that it resorted to manufacturing comments to make it appear like it had a vibrant community reading it? And then banning my IP from the site when I called them out on it? Well, they are ......
Intelligent Discontent - Jun 26 - 8 clicks
Matt already mentioned Bozeman’s insane policy requiring potential job applicants to hand over their login names (and passwords!) for all web sites they belong to, but I thought I would take a look at the requirement and the city’s response. Reading the form is bizarre. ......
Intelligent Discontent - Jun 19
