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![Missoula County voices support for marijuana banking act](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/10/attachment-marijuana.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula County voices support for marijuana banking act
Missoula County is backing federal legislation that would allow dispensaries and other marijuana retailers to utilize the U.S. banking system like any other business.
![Viewpoint: Holland Lake bull trout need clean water](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/09/attachment-Holland-Lake-View.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Holland Lake bull trout need clean water
Arlene Montgomery writes, "Bull trout are in a precarious situation in the Swan Valley, non-native lake trout and mysis shrimp pose a threat in Holland Lake. Lack of clean water shouldn't be another hazard they have to navigate."
![Viewpoint: Your vote can get us there](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/10/attachment-Sam-Kulla.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Your vote can get us there
Sam Kulla writes, "First and foremost, we must safeguard human rights on all fronts to create the foundation for caring for our planet and each other. These issues are interconnected."
![Missoula Airport optimistic after Sun Country Airline’s agreement](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/10/attachment-Sun-Country-Livery_04-1500x844.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula Airport optimistic after Sun Country Airline’s agreement
With a new airline locked into nonstop flights to Minneapolis next summer, Missoula Montana Airport is looking beyond its existing routes in hopes of expanding service.
![Murdock Trust awards grant to Five Valleys to help secure funding](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/01/Dean-Stone-4.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Murdock Trust awards grant to Five Valleys to help secure funding
The new grant awarded to Five Valleys by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust will help Five Valleys fill a position aimed at securing gifts and other contributions left by advocates of open space, public lands and conservation.
![Report: Outdoor economy to suffer as climate change worsens](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/10/attachment-Ski-Showdown.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Report: Outdoor economy to suffer as climate change worsens
The effects of climate change are already affecting Montana’s outdoor recreation, but with predictions of even more heat and drought by 2050, the outdoor recreation industry stands to lose thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in earnings, according to a new report.
![Viewpoint: Nugent for mayor knows more than subsidized housing](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/01/nugent-2-scaled.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Nugent for mayor knows more than subsidized housing
Stacie Rye writes, "We have a 45% homeownership rate. Let's not think that only subsidized housing is going to get us to the national average of home ownership, as much as we'd like to."
![Viewpoint: Gwen Jones the right choice for City Council](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/10/attachment-Gwen-Jones-2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Gwen Jones the right choice for City Council
Brian Upton writes, "Gwen Jones has been a great advocate for citizen interests and she works hard to address issues that make real differences in people’s lives."
![Viewpoint: Daines’ anti-sportsman measure out of step with Montana](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/05/300117_PubLands_03.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Daines’ anti-sportsman measure out of step with Montana
Laulette Hansen writes, "I was very disappointed to find Steve Daines still clinging to the pretense of his so-called Montana Sportsman's Conservation Act, which in fact serves neither Montana nor her sportsmen, and isn't intended to."
![Missoula County approves 122-acre Grass Valley conservation easement](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/10/attachment-conservation.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula County approves 122-acre Grass Valley conservation easement
More than 100 acres of agricultural land and bird habitat near Frenchtown will be managed as a conservation easement under a donation by the landowners and the approval of Open Space Bond funding to pay for the transaction.