Plans to reshape the downtown transportation network and another geared toward Brooks Street remain on the horizon, and the city is pursuing them both with diligence.
With one of the city's urban renewal districts set to expire in the coming years, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency is working to complete a number of priorities, including the completion of water mains and sidewalks.
County treasurers are left with the thankless task of sending supplemental property tax bills to hundreds of thousands of property owners across Montana.
Republican and Democrat legislators largely disagreed on how party make-up in interim committees impact the bills that come out of them during a discussion on the topic.
The Rattlesnake National Recreation Area should be assigned its own management area, not only for its unique character and history, but because it is only one of two Congressionally designated areas on the Lolo National Forest."
Leaders in Montana, whose population is nearly half rural, credit Medicaid expansion as the reason their hospitals have largely avoided the financial crisis depicted by the report despite escalating costs, workforce shortages, and growing administrative burden.
Drafty classroom windows, a leaky roof, a failing boiler, and a backlog of facility maintenance needs ... These are all too familiar realities for teachers, students, and staff in Montana’s K-12 schools.
The 1900 census placed Missoula’s population at 4,329. A newspaper writer of the day forecast that in 10 years or so, “it would be a city of between 15,000 and 20,000 inhabitants if conditions remain as favorable as they are now.”
Republicans in Montana, including Gov. Greg Gianforte, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, and the state’s three federal representatives, have widely panned the ESG movement as an attack on energy companies and gun manufacturers, among other groups.