Missoula City Council

Jim Wheelis writes, "We’re lucky to have her on the city council and fortunate that she wants another term. I’m lucky to have her as a neighbor. Someone like Gwen makes city government and neighborhoods work right."

The combined governments of the city and county will hold a hearing next Wednesday.

Mayor Hess reassured the public that the Missoula Fire Department would not lose any present funding.

Campbell appeared on the KGVO Talk Back show on Thursday and was asked about how he would have voted over the city budget with its 9.7 percent tax increase.

The shelter is set to open this month and will remain open through the winter.

Seldom has any one guest filled up all the phone lines, but it happened on Monday.

Officials with city government and the Missoula Police Department faced difficult questions from among nearly two hundred people.

The area surrounding the current Johnson Street Emergency Shelter has been a topic of fiery discussion for several years.

In a four-hour show of priorities and opinions, the Missoula City Council on Wednesday considered a long list of amendments to the new city budget that would either add new costs or cut them.

Mayor Hess referenced the difference between the residential property tax and other taxes.