UM President Addresses New Book Critical of UM – State Headlines [YouTube]
UM President Royce Engstrom said that noted author Jon Krakauer never asked any university officials about the issue of sexual assaults on campus.
Krakauer's book critical of the way the university handled the Jordan Johnson case, will be released in April.
Patrick Barkey with the Bureau of Business and Economic research said Missoula's tax bas is not big enough to afford everything that want to fund.
Rain and snow this weekend in western Montana.
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