Missoula Current

Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis coasted to her first full term in office on Tuesday night, more than doubling her opponent's votes, while City Council incumbents saw mixed results.

The United Way of Missoula County on Tuesday awarded a $10,000 emergency grant to the Missoula Food Bank and Community Center to help meet the surge in demand resulting from the suspension of federal SNAP benefits.

Jim Elliott writes, "It’s important to understand that a “political agenda” is nothing more than a demeaning term for a differing opinion, and as someone once noted, a difference of opinion is why we have horse races. To settle the matter."

Development of a wastewater facility near Flathead Lake will continue, but so will a lawsuit that seeks to stop the release of sewage while the state does a more thorough environmental analysis.

Missoula County Republicans write, "While liberal activists play dead, Missoula Republicans are organizing a food drive."

Justin Ailport writes, "They seem to have forgotten a core Montana value: You show up for your neighbors when they’re in need. It begs the question: If they’re not representing Montana interests, then who are they representing?"

The local Missoula news of October 30, 1889 gives us an interesting snapshot into the commerce and society of our small, but growing town (growing, thanks to the arrival of the railroad a couple of years earlier). Let’s take a glimpse at the local and area doings.

The City of Missoula on Thursday named Marina Yoshioka as the new director of Parks and Recreation, one of the city's largest departments.

Another developer is poised to open a gravel pit in the Blackfoot watershed, so another community group has formed to stop the state and the county from approving it.

Carl Davis writes, "Who knows where Trump’s specious trade wars and whack-a-mole economic policies will lead next? They’re unlikely to bode well for Montana agriculture."