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Missoula Current
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![Pledge allegiance or not? Missoula City Council protest continues](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/12/attachment-flag.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Pledge allegiance or not? Missoula City Council protest continues
Several City Council members on Monday night continued to sit during the Pledge of Allegiance – a move that has grown more controversial in recent weeks.
![Viewpoint: Donald Trump is no Father Christmas](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/03/attachment-Trump.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Donald Trump is no Father Christmas
Sneed Collard writes, "Trump is not Father Christmas delivering gifts. He is Scrooge, eager to stuff our freedoms into his sack and carry them off for good."
![A new energy future: Missoula adopts clean power program with NW Energy](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/08/attachment-Wind-energy.jpg?w=980&q=75)
A new energy future: Missoula adopts clean power program with NW Energy
In an effort that has taken several years to accomplish and saw multiple partners at the table, the city and county of Missoula on Monday night adopted the term sheet for a new green power program – the first of its kind in Montana.
![Nez Perce Clearwater Forest shrinks Great Burn wilderness](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/12/attachment-wilderness.jpeg?w=980&q=75)
Nez Perce Clearwater Forest shrinks Great Burn wilderness
The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest supervisor trumpeted her new forest plan as the best compromise for all, but when it comes to proposed wilderness, both advocates and opponents disagree.
![Gas prices in Montana average $3.04; Missoula County at $3.02](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/05/gas-price-May-20.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Gas prices in Montana average $3.04; Missoula County at $3.02
While fuel prices tumble in some parts of the county, only a handful of Montana counties are selling gasoline for an average of $3 per gallon or less.
![Viewpoint: GOP sleepwalking America into fascism](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/03/Rosendale-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: GOP sleepwalking America into fascism
Jim Nelson writes, "Semi-loyalists, by tolerating the conduct and statements of extremists, actually strengthen the behavior of these authoritarian elements and legitimize their conduct and ideas—perhaps creating the tipping-point that results in a solid democracy collapsing upon itself."
![Viewpoint: Sheehy is Democrats’ dream against Tester](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/07/Koopman.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Sheehy is Democrats’ dream against Tester
Roger Koopman writes, "Sheehy is a counterfeit conservative, cobbled together by a GOP Establishment and their corporate special interests, all of whom are desperate to keep conservative champion Rep. Matt Rosendale out of the race."
![Harmon’s Histories: PINK in 2024? Or Carpenters, Elvin Bishop, Buck Owens in 1973?](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/12/attachment-Little-Big-Men-Pizza-AD-Jan-19-1973.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Harmon’s Histories: PINK in 2024? Or Carpenters, Elvin Bishop, Buck Owens in 1973?
I see that P!NK will perform in Missoula at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in August, with Sheryl Crow among the warm-up acts. Ticket prices, according to various websites, range between $70 and $370. That prompted me to look back through old issues of the UM student newspaper, The Kaimin, for the various acts and ticket prices in Missoula 50 years ago: 1973. Wow! What a year!
![Passenger rail in southern Montana makes federal list, poised for funding](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/04/attachment-Railroad1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Passenger rail in southern Montana makes federal list, poised for funding
Efforts to restore passenger rail across Montana's southern tier received a significant boost on Friday when the federal government announced $500,000 in seed funding and accepted the route into the Federal Railroad Authority's Corridor Identification Program.
![Flights from Missoula to Portland, Oakland and Orange County returning](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2021/03/Airlines.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Flights from Missoula to Portland, Oakland and Orange County returning
During the pandemic, a number of carriers cut service and Missoula lost a number of routes. Now, as travel out of Missoula grows to record numbers, the flights are coming back and carriers are doing so on larger airplanes.