by Travis Mateer
First, out of an abundance of caution, I made yesterday’s post private, so it’s no longer visible. I have challenges on so many fronts, it’s easy to get a bit overloaded and convey that TOO effectively. That’s how good I am.
To emphasize the kind of quality local insights I provide here, two local news stories caught my attention, both about drugs. The first one is about Troopers busting fugitives in a drug “interdiction”. Isn’t that a fancy word? Here’s the EXCLUSIVE news report NBC Montana thinks you’ll ONLY get at their website (emphasis mine):
Montana Highway Patrol troopers conducted a drug interdiction operation from Dec. 2-6 in a small Montana town.
NBC Montana talked exclusively with Montana Highway Patrol Colonel Kurt Sager about the interdiction and the issues of drugs flowing throughout the state.
It’s a story you’ll only see on NBC Montana.
Before I get to the part of about Superior, Montana, that sounds a lot like THIS POST I wrote back in April, here’s my framing from 8 months ago:
Yep, knowing this region is important for the reasons I’ve been talking about for years, here’s the politically well-timed description from NBC Montana:
“Superior is kind of unique, it is a small town, but it is one of our entrances into the state of Montana and it is on a major interstate, so its location definitely adds to the amount of drugs that are coming through there with it being on interstate 90. A lot of the drugs that we get there are passing through,” Col. Sager explained.
Yes, drugs flow into Montana on I-90, and plenty of that illicit product goes north, to the eager homeless drug consumers kept warm in Kalispell thanks to the Warming Shelter and the lawsuit by a national law organization, which I mentioned in this post two months ago.
What I did NOT write about publicly (it’s in my crazy synchronicity research) was my suspicion regarding WHY the warming shelter needs to stay open, and I got confirmation of that hunch recently when I checked out the University’s publication, the Kaimin. Here’s what I knew was coming months ago (emphasis mine):
Opioid overdoses could become less likely thanks in part to new research being done at the University of Montana. In early 2024, a fentanyl vaccine, designed by University researchers in collaboration with Inimmune, a Missoula-based biotech company, will undergo phase one of human clinical trials.
Yep, I knew this was coming, and mentioned to more than a few people my hunch that keeping drug addicts warm would be a good thing for our local bio-tech company developing their Fentanyl vaccine. Looks like my hunch might be accurate.
To finish up this post, the Homeless Outreach Program I developed has a “news” story about their work with those living outside during the winter. Here’s a quote (emphasis mine):
Beckett Redinger, the communications coordinator for the Johnson Street and Poverello shelters says that the Homeless Outreach Team is reaching out to those who are living unsheltered providing information for services, including both shelters.
“Our HOT team has definitely been working a lot to reach people who are living unsheltered, and, you know, let them know that shelter is an option for them this winter, and help bring them inside, especially on the coldest nights, so that no one is hurt by the cold temperatures this winter.
Yes, that inconvenient corpse I thought might have been hurt by the cold temperature was, according to the Sheriff’s Office, NOT a corpse. Also, that dead body recently identified is NOT the victim of an assault, also according to the Sheriff’s Office, so maybe I should BACK OFF that claim Missoula might have a serial killer.
That is, unless MORE concerning rumors of dead bodies emerges, like this comment someone sent me:
What the hell might be going on in this town? And, if there IS nasty shit happening, how effective will the narrative controllers be at CONTROLLING the growing worry that killers can kill in Montana and get away with it.
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