The Guide to Getting By
A cheat sheet to making ends meet in Missoula
For all of Missoula’s endearing characteristics, financial opportunity ain’t one of them. Jobs are scarce; high-paying jobs even scarcer. And in this prolonged economic rut? Good luck striking gold when just treading water seems hard enough. We figure everyone needs a little help finding ways to make ends meet in Missoula, dire times or not. That’s why we compiled this how-to list on everything from earning extra cash to filling your belly for free. Whether you’re barely living paycheck-to-paycheck or dying to find a job that’ll simply lead to a paycheck, we’ve got you covered.
Dueling Dems
Frustrated reps place blame on "soul-crushing" stretch
By any standard, Barack Obama has had a very rough road a year and a half into his presidency.
(Ochenski)
Fever pitch
With wolves, the debate is seldom rational
As the argument over proper wolf management continues in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and now Oregon, the author marvels at our ability to ignore facts while jumping on one bandwagon or another.
(Range)
The Guide to Getting By
A cheat sheet to making ends meet in Missoula
For all of Missoula’s endearing characteristics, financial opportunity ain’t one of them. Jobs are scarce; high-paying jobs even scarcer. And in this prolonged economic rut? Good luck striking gold when just treading water seems hard enough. We figure everyone needs a little help finding ways to make ends meet in Missoula, dire times or not. That’s why we compiled this how-to list on everything from earning extra cash to filling your belly for free. Whether you’re barely living paycheck-to-paycheck or dying to find a job that’ll simply lead to a paycheck, we’ve got you covered.
The power of 406
Google Voice, the Internet giant's increasingly popular attempt at reinventing telephony, has acquired an untold number of Montana phone numbers to power its innovative technology.
(Info)
In the weeds
Developers make legal case against ag land preservation
Missoula real estate agents and developers last week acknowledged the community's desire to protect the valley's remaining agricultural land, but said doing so through the subdivision review process—as the city and county have done the past few years—"is un-American and, most likely, unconstitutional."
(Up Front)
Mountain High
I'm certainly not fit enough to compete in a triathlon, but maybe you are.
Wine
Missoula's aspiring sommelier
Jim Daanen, an energetic 25-year-old with long blond hair, glides around CVS's wine department sliding bottles to the fronts of shelves to replace the ones customers had just plucked away.
(Info)
Character
Deliverance from a dumpster
Passersby in the Good Food Store parking lot crane their necks to take in the spectacle that is Robert Walker's loaded Dodge Colt.
(Info)
Downtown
Paying more for police
In an effort to curb crime and protect local businesses, Missoula's Business Improvement District (BID) is paying the Missoula Police Department to have a dedicated officer patrol the urban core.
(Info)
Highland heritage
Celtic Festival returns with bowling, bands, beer
In the late 11th century, King Malcolm III of Scotland—in an attempt to find the swiftest messenger in his kingdom—started an event called fell racing in which participants ran against one another off-road and across uplands.
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Doig adds to Butte's long literary history
Kurt Vonnegut, in his "autobiographical collage" Palm Sunday, recounts his argument with a Russian novelist who felt American writers had failed to produce a truly great novel on par with, say, War and Peace.
(Books)
No drought
This year's summer films actually stack up
We all know that the 2010 movie summer has been a dud, a disappointment, a summer of blah unlike any other.
(Film Features)
The Reverend Horton Heat
Laughin' & Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat
Evaporating paychecks, relationship foibles, cheap beer and rural living: Pick up a random country album at any box store and that's likely what you're getting.
(Noise)
The Books
The Way Out
Listening to The Way Out is like sifting through an audio scrapbook from an outdated media library.
(Noise)
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