Posts under ‘Missoula’

I know, low-hanging fruit. But, holy hell, the knives are out over at the Missoulian comments to the Pam Walzer DUI story.   (Obnoxious Montana Club corner-flopdown-ad warning!)
Curious readers want to know, did she submit to the breathalyzer test?  After all, her colleague on City Council Dave Strohmaier wants to make refusal to submit to the [...]

Do the promoters of this petition to bring back the Hiawatha train route realize the many physical and legal obstacles in their way?  Like, people’s houses, and rails-to-trails rides like the one up in Taft?  Condemning these “encroachments” on the old railbed will. take. decades.
But don’t let that stop ya, dreamers.
UPDATE: MikeH says I’m wrong, [...]

So, the local house-selling industry acknowledges that condos aren’t selling. Ya think?   And, by gosh, something’s got to change!
Federal restrictions have backed banks away from making loans to condominium builders and buyers. At the same time, some industry professionals want to make it easier to build smaller homes. The regulations that need to be [...]

Heh, the mom and pop bars are fighting back.
More than four months after a smoking ban in Montana’s bars went into effect, on any good night a cloud of cigarette smoke wafts through the Turah Pines Bar.
Sometimes, said Peggy Bjornberg, a bar owner has to do what a bar owner has to do.
“We’ve been in [...]

Doug in comments reminded me that Missoulapolis has not blogged the latest REIC story in the Missoulian Monday.
A few factors this year seem to be leading some new buyers into the local market despite the inventory. The economy has pushed down prices, and the homebuyer tax credit coupled with low interest rates are drawing some [...]

UPDATE: Suicide.
All respect and love to Kitteh, but I do suspect a alcohol-drugs-pharma connection here.
UPDATE: It gets curiouser. A commenter purporting to be Gary Bassett’s sister writes at Missoula Red Tape:
Thank you for the FEW people that could see that there may have been more to the story. But, no mercy was shown [...]

There must be more to this story don’t you think? Like the perp doing a few Jaeger-Red Bull-meth cocktails, or having a hangover from same?
UPDATE: So I’m on my way to the dentist, down 39th, and I notice the cops are surrounding a house off on Dore Lane.  I told the gals at the [...]

So, I talked to the project manager at the County and this latest work on the Grant Creek restoration and flood control project is supposed to wind up next week. Uh huh.
This whole deal (rather ordeal) was sold to the Mullan area residents as both flood control and a restoration of the original look and [...]

HDR Engineering and Jensen won’t be happy until they’ve ripped every living thing out.
Please, make it stop.

Heh, they say this like they actually knew or something.
…while economists predict the worst is over and recovery is on the horizon in 2010, no real job growth is expected for at least another year.
“It won’t feel like a recovery until there’s job growth, which won’t happen until 2011,” said Patrick Barkey, director of the [...]