Arren is a writer and journalist who has covered politics, development and culture in the West for the better part of a decade, first in Arizona and now in Montana. His work has appeared in Montana Free Press, where he was the chief political reporter, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and more. He’s currently a graduate student in environmental studies at the University of Montana.
A defiant Missoula City Council responds to the new state law banning Pride flags in public schools and on government property by adopting the Pride flag as an official flag of the city.
Filing for Missoula City Council elections has opened and races are already taking shape; and Missoula County chips in $125,000 to help house Johnson Street shelter residents.
The Trump administration’s seemingly indiscriminate cuts reach Missoula’s spectrUM Discovery Area, stripping the nonprofit science center of two $250,000 federal grants.
The recent University of Montana graduate is among four international students in the Montana University System who’ve had their visas terminated, two of whom are suing the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration chokes off funding for Humanities Montana, freezing statewide programming on Montana culture, literature, history, democracy and arts.
Latest federal cuts hit Missoula Food Bank, health centers and energy programs. And a Missoula judge stalls the Legislature’s “bathroom bill,” saying it’s “motivated by animus.”