Arren Kimbel-Sannit

Missoula

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MCPS goes two for three 🗳️

1 week ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

The results from Tuesday’s school board and levy votes are in: Missoula voters approved two of three public school levies and retained the incumbent slate of school board members. The levies help fund general operations as well as potentially qualify Missoula schools for additional state funds, important at a time when school districts across the state are facing budget deficits and making cuts accordingly.
Off to the (Missoula City Council) races 🏃‍♀️

2 weeks ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

Races for several seats on the Missoula City Council are already taking shape. Filing for council elections opened on April 17 and closes June 16. The municipal primary election is Sept. 9, and the general election is Nov. 4. Missoula city elections are non-partisan. Here’s who has filed to run so far:Betsy Craske is an environmental educator whose platform names affordable housing, climate resilience and multimodal transit as priorities, among other issues. Lucas Moody is a city library staffer.
SpectrUM loses major funding source

1 month ago | matr.net | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

SpectrUM, the University of Montana-affiliated nonprofit science center located inside the Missoula Public Library, lost two federal grants totaling $500,000 as part of sweeping cuts to the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, according to SpectrUM Discovery Area director Alex Sobin.
Missoula's SpectrUM Discovery Area loses major funding source

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

SpectrUM, the University of Montana-affiliated nonprofit science center located inside the Missoula Public Library, lost two federal grants totaling $500,000 as part of sweeping cuts to the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, according to SpectrUM Discovery Area director Alex Sobin.
Feds revoke UM international student’s visa – The Pulp

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Arren Kimbel-Sannit Arren

A recent graduate of the University of Montana is among four Montana University System students whose F-1 student visas have been revoked by the federal government in recent weeks, according to a UM spokesperson.
Losing our humanities – The Pulp

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

Cowboy troubadours, Elizabethan storytellers, roaming Montana historians and other artists and educators funded through Humanities Montana are losing work after federal spending cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency came for the Missoula-based arts nonprofit. Humanities Montana gets a substantial majority of its budget from the National Endowment of the Humanities, said Jill Baker, the organization’s director.
Emptying the pantry — The Pulp

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit

The beginning of a new fiscal quarter has Missoula-area nonprofit and government organizations reckoning with more rounds of federal spending cuts by the Trump administration. In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than $1 billion in cuts to food aid programs, including around $500 million to help food banks stock their pantries. The Missoula Food Bank and Community Center announced this week that it anticipates the cut will reduce the center’s funding by $180,000.
Who will fund Missoula's 'housing sprint'?

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Arren Kimbel-Sannit Arren

Missoula and its nonprofit partners are aiming to raise $400,000 for a “housing sprint” to help connect residents at the Johnson Street homeless shelter to services and stable housing, city officials said during a meeting of the city council’s Housing, Redevelopment, and Community Programs Committee Wednesday morning. The city announced earlier this month that it would be sunsetting operations at Johnson Street by August, citing budgetary constraints.
Republicans flip to defeat anti-trans bills

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Arren Kimbel-Sannit Arren

A pair of Republican-backed bills concerning LGBTQ+ rights in Montana failed to pass the House floor this month, marking rare legislative defeats for a political agenda that has otherwise seen consistent success in the state Capitol. The bills, which aimed to restrict drag performances and penalize families supporting their kids’ gender-affirming care, met impassioned opposition from Missoula-area lawmakers and a surprising number of Republicans.
Missoula to close Johnson Street homeless shelter

2 months ago | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Arren Kimbel-Sannit Arren

The city of Missoula and the Poverello Center will phase out use of the Johnson Street homeless shelter over the next several months, city officials said Friday. Citing the termination of pandemic-era federal funding and related budgetary pressures, Mayor Andrea Davis said the city will begin reducing the number of people sleeping at the shelter in April, with the goal of cutting the shelter’s census by about 30 people a month until closing it in August.