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Grist @grist.org · 13/08/2026
As Montana warms, Missoula’s first heat map reveals hidden hotspots
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As Montana warms, Missoula’s first heat map reveals hidden hotspots
The mapping effort is uncovering unexpected patterns, with some undeveloped and heavily forested areas holding more heat than researchers anticipated.
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Martina @mpansz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you care about climate, you care about transmission permitting 🤓
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 28/04/2026
Now legal in Missoula: ADUs, over-garage homes, apartments, small-scale multiplexes. Mixed use on every parcel. Costly off-street parking mandates gone. The new code doesn't just lead Montana... it shows up almost every similarly sized city in the US. @dannytenenbaum.bsky.social
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Missoula’s Zoning Reform Raises the Bar for Small Cities | Sightline Institute
The western Montana town of 80,000 just overhauled its outdated code and legalized more homes in every neighborhood.
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Martina @mpansz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Whoah: vail resorts makes more than a billion on pre-season epic sales.
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It's hard to think about retiring from racing, because mushing is, and will always be, a huge part of my life. So I took a journey with my older dogs, who have retired themselves. They've taught me so much over the years; now, they're teaching me to live with change. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...
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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye To Her Pack
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Al Vanderklipp @alvanderklipp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Good morning Bluesky! I’m @sightline.org researcher Al Vanderklipp, and I’ll be fielding your questions about proportional representation today. Reply to this thread and I’ll do my best to answer anything you want to know. ☺️ #AMA
Sightline researcher Al Vanderklipp holds up a handwritten sign prompting bluesky users to “ask him anything.”
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
new from me: a story about VACANCY CHAINS, the idea that underlies the argument that more housing is good even if you can't afford it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone
A new rung at the top of the housing ladder permits people lower down to climb up.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with
the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show
the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific
addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account
for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in
the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The
Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers
were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were
about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing
neighborhood characteristics of movers
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 30/01/2026
Congrats, Missoula! 🥳
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Council votes to remove all parking requirements for new Missoula developments
If the change carries through final approval of the larger code document, Missoula will become the first city in Montana to eliminate parking requirements for all new development.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 11/01/2026
The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.
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North America's Elevator Problem
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 26/11/2025
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
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Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/10/2025
I haven't seen near the coverage of this catastrophe that it warrants. alaskapublic.org/news/environ...
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Here's how you can help survivors of the Western Alaska storm
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have killed one person, left two missing, displaced hundreds and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.
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Martina @mpansz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
just awful. Crosscut (as I stubbornly still call it) punched way above its weight class with a relatively small newsroom. My heart hurts for my friends and former colleagues -- and for a future with more stories untold, power left uninvestigated, injustices slid under the rug
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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Important to note who's funding this campaign in support of Initiative 1B, which guts funds for social housing: "Microsoft ($100,000), Amazon ($100,000), and the Greater Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce ($35,000)."
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