After getting a call from a supporter of the blog earlier today, I’m providing one of the first substantive reports you’ll see that around 6:30am a Mountain Line bus was involved in a fatality while traveling east bound on West Broadway, near the Poverello Center. From a conversation I stumbled onto and recorded while walking on the bike path near the California Street walking bridge, the fatality was a woman.
I’m pretty sure this is accurate, since the white suds visible in this image, near the cop cruiser, is apparently from the blood being washed off the street.
Tomorrow’s article at Western Montana News will be about my value as a local journalist, and the first-amendment-challenged bureaucrats who don’t like applying the first amendment to my email inquiries.
Stay tuned, my reporting WILL CONTINUE whether they want it to, or not.
It may sound crazy at first–advocating for Missoula to get directly involved in meth production–but what do you call a city that suddenly needs emergency levies for homeless services after already prepping taxpayers for a million dollar expenditure for new homeless services? Would you call that an example of SANITY? (emphasis mine):
The City of Missoula this week may dust off a proclamation that declared a homeless emergency two years ago, clearing the way for the mayor to levy 2 additional mills to fund homeless services and support nonprofit providers.
On Monday night, Mayor Andrea Davis addressed the city’s new ordinance on urban camping – a move that authorizes overnight camping in public parks and directs the city to provide hygiene stations, trash collection and needle bins, among other things.
The city placed the cost of the ordinance and the measures it calls for at around $1 million.
What will this money go to? It will go to things like “education” so that a newly hired government worker can find car campers like me and tell me I need a permit and that I need to park in proximity to cartel-supported drug addicts enabled by local leaders with clear cognitive problems.
Yeah, that’s not going to happen.
To manage the vehicle camping program, the city is seeking $152,000 to hire two additional employees. It’s an ongoing expense that covers the cost of educating, permitting, cleaning and ensuring camping compliance.
“I have requested some resources to do that. People are sleeping in vehicles and parks already,” Davis said. “We’re doing our best to put a thoughtful program together. It’s not going to be perfect.”
I wouldn’t be so hostile to this bullshit if there was ANY accountability at the top for the immense failures I have documented over the years, especially from United Way of Missoula County. Since there is not any accountability at the top, why would I subject myself to ANOTHER program that these failures masquerading as leaders are pushing on this Missoula community? I would have to be as retarded as Susan Hay Patrick and Ellie Boldman to place myself in the programmatic hands of these political hags.
What about YOU, Missoula taxpayers? Are you retarded enough to vote YES on this levy? Here’s the funny thing, though, that you may want to consider: it doesn’t matter HOW you vote, this shit will get funded one way or another (emphasis mine):
Regardless of the outcome of that levy, the city and county both have pushed to fund the programs anyway, including those in the urban camping ordinance and the emergency levy now proposed by the mayor.
This year, voters were also asked to approve a fire services levy, which they did. Missoula County will also ask voters to approve a levy to fund roads and bridges.
While the county’s budget remains unknown, the city budget would include a tax increase of around 16%, which includes the fire levy but not the emergency proclamation.
What does the smile of certainty look like when local leaders know their serfs are too timid to do anything about their failures and obvious corruption? I think it looks just like this:
For more information on local homeless policy failures, check out the following posts. If you do, then you might start understanding why the Executive Director of United Way is deeply involved in the legal issues I’m currently embroiled in.
I think these 27 links to SOME (not all) of the articles I’ve written over the years on this subject are a good representation of my unique perspective. If you appreciate this perspective, please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.
