City Talk

At one point at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, nearly half the fire department was quarantined by the Missoula City County Health Department, said new Fire Chief Gordy Hughes on Friday’s City Talk program.

Friday’s one hour Talk Back program was aptly named ‘City Talk’, due to the subject matter being discussed; property taxes.

After Missoula Mayor John Engen and all three Missoula County Commissioners held a press conference on June 1 to announce that a critical management team would be created to address the problem of camping in the ‘urban wild’, Office of Emergency Management Director Adriane Beck was tasked with putting that team together.

Once a month, City of Missoula Communications Director Ginny Merriam brings a guest to the ‘City Talk’ edition of Talk Back, and on Friday the guest was Missoula Police Department Public Information Officer Travis Welsh.

Last Friday on the City Talk edition of KGVO’s Talk Back show, a caller asked City of Missoula Communications Director Ginny Merriam about some property out at Fort Missoula that had been sold to a private party.

In a recent City Talk program on KGVO, City of Missoula Communications Director Ginny Merriam said she has also been tasked with helping to coordinate COVID vaccinations.

Nick Holloway, the Public Information Officer for the Missoula County COVID 19 Vaccination Team, was the featured guest on KGVO’s monthly City Talk segment of Talk Back.

On the monthly City Talk segment on KGVO’s Talk Back show, Missoula Mayor John Engen fielded several questions from listeners on the subject of housing, primarily affordable housing.

Two Missoula men were arrested during an FBI action on Wednesday evening on felony drug charges. They appeared in District Court on Thursday.

Mayor John Engen and Police Chief Jaeson White answered questions from the KGVO Talk Back audience on Friday.