Missoula County

A Montana Supreme Court decision last week siding with the state in its push to levy more education mills than most counties believed was right now has local treasurers across the state taking a wait-and-see approach on what their next step will be.

“There are, I think, undeniably, new winds sweeping across America. They are indeed gusty and changeable, but they are new - and they will alter what happens in Montana ... (either for) better or worse, (depending) on Montanans and how they, or you, read those winds.” The quote is from one of my favorite historians, K. Ross Toole, a Montana rancher who accepted the Hammond Professorship at the University of Montana in 1965 – a post he held until his death in 1981.

A Missoula District Court judge has determined that a lawsuit filed against the county failed to produce evidence proving the county elections office misused or wrongfully operated a voter database during the 2020 election.

Missoula County commissioners write, "Please know your commissioners are also working hard to advocate for changes to the tax system at the state level to help ease the burden property taxes have on our residents."

Flashback to 1934, when The Washington (D.C.) Star newspaper reported the American Automobile Association (AAA) had called on “city authorities throughout the country to outlaw raucous automobile horns in a campaign of noise disarmament.”

The official adoption of a new targeted development district at the Wye drew praise from economic officials, agricultural backers and developers last week in its focus on bringing infrastructure to the area.

Work to renovate the historic federal building in downtown Missoula will begin soon as the city and county prepare co-locate services in the facility.

They were considered unrepentant and hopeless - absolutely incorrigible. Some had “wayward and vicious” dispositions, and were constantly running away from home. So what did Montana do with its hopeless teenage miscreants a century ago? Sent them to “reform school,” of course.

While the city and county of Missoula have approved tapping into the Open Space Bond to purchase 480 acres on Marshall Mountain, the actual acquisition is still pending, and it could take a little longer than planned.

Looking to create a new development district near the Wye to fund the cost of infrastructure, Missoula County has opened its public hearing on the matter and will render a final vote next month.