Missoula Current
Missoula Electric to launch $1M Rock Creek power project
Difficult terrain and the persistent threat of wildfire in the Rock Creek drainage will prompt Missoula Electric Cooperative to relocate its power lines and bury them under the roadway.
Viewpoint: Unintended consequences of unrestrained logging, thinning
Michael Hoyt writes, "The concept of improving forest health by increasing logging and thinning remains unsupported by scientific evidence and an increasing number of people oppose such activities."
Harmon’s Histories: Poison once a favored murder weapon
By Jim Harmon
I see in the paper that Miss Daisy Dawson hosted the Calamity Whist club at her home in Butte last Tuesday evening and Mrs. George F. Lyman of Anaconda visited Butte friends yesterday.
But such social-calendar reporting was rather mundane and unremarkable compared to what I found on page eight of the Butte Daily Inter-Mountain newspaper of February 4, 1899...
Music: The voice of Neko Case dazzles at The Wilma
William Munoz writes, "Neko Case is one of the few artists I listen to over again, year after year, since first hearing her in 2006 when she released 'Fox Confessor Brings The Flood.'"
CEO of Missoula’s Headwaters Foundation moving on
The CEO of the Missoula-based Headwaters Foundation on Friday announced her plans to leave the job for new opportunities in California.
State, Missoula County earn EPA grants to diminish smoke effects
The particulates in smoke are particularly hard on people who already have respiratory challenges, but researchers are finding that smoke takes its toll on healthy people to a greater extent than once assumed.
Viewpoint: Even Montana Republicans know the GOP has lost its way
Kathy Holland writes, "Our property tax problem is due to nothing except the negligence of a Supermajority drunk on their power who forgot who put them there. Eastern Montana is my home; it is the gem of Montana."
Climate Connections: The win-win of reducing waste
Kelli Hess writes, "Our current linear economic system is designed so that the majority of resources are extracted, manufactured, sold, used and discarded."
Missoula County names board to review elected officials’ pay
With a new fiscal year close at hand, Missoula County on Thursday appointed a new compensation board to review the pay of the county's elected officials.
FRA to hold key rail meeting in Missoula before recommending to Congress
The meeting will detail plans for the Northwest rail region, including restoration of the North Coast Hiawatha, which was discontinued in the 1970s.