Chicken a la conservation
Want to know how your Missoula City Council members rank on conservation values? Their votes on chickens in city limits mattered. The Montana Conservation Voters just released a scorecard* on council...
View ArticleMore on Rattlesnake sewer and development
One resident sees the plus side to a lousy economy … Dear City Council Members and Mayor Engen, On the evening of July 13th I could unfortunately not attend the city council meeting. My wife was out of...
View ArticleTweeting and other chirps
Councilwoman Marilyn Marler is tweeting, but Mayor John Engen said he’s not gonna do it. Why not, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom tweets? Well, Engen said Newsom doesn’t tweet at all — he leaves...
View ArticleWhere principle trumps campaign
The three council-plaintiffs in the lawsuit about the zoning rewrite aren’t worried about keeping their seats. Just one is up for re-election this year, and that’s Councilman Dick Haines, running...
View ArticleThe letter
Here’s the Attorney General’s “advisory” letter* that Ross Best mentioned in Council Chambers. Best said the city needs to be more stringent in enforcing ethical guidelines for public officials serving...
View ArticleSquash it
The city of Missoula is asking the court to deny or quash the lawsuit — a “writ of mandate” — filed on the zoning rewrite. Deputy city attorney Keithi Worthington forwarded the city’s response.* In it,...
View ArticleWish List 2009
I’m going to talk with our tech folks soon about putting together a Web site that’s dedicated to city elections. I’m picturing something I saw once on the Chicago Tribune site. It was a map of the...
View ArticleWhack your weeds
In Councilman Bob Jaffe’s weekly committee report, he tells people to chop their weeds — and he gives them a good reason to do so. It’s $383 you’ll save. “The way this works is someone complains about...
View ArticleThe treacherous trail
John Quandt* is tweeting from the campaign trail, and it isn’t always a smooth ride out there. But the tweets* are lively. This from the Ward 3 candidate’s August 30th day on the trail: 1. “heading out...
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