Kate Whittle is a Missoula-based writer, award-winning journalist, recovering hot sauce maker and novice pie baker. Her work has appeared in Ms. magazine, the Missoula Independent, National Speleological Society Quarterly, In These Times and Adventure Cyclist magazine, but more importantly, she is loved by cats.
The Ole Beck VFW, a “little dive bar” in downtown Missoula, had considered closing on Mondays for lack of customers. Then came “Love Island” watch parties.
Funding cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts jeopardize a decades-old writing program for elementary school students on the Flathead Reservation.
