addiction

City Council

Kalispell City Council to take up conditional use permit for recovery home | #citycouncil

Kalispell City Council is expected to vote on a conditional use permit for Absolute Ministries’ proposed recovery home at its meeting Tuesday evening. The meeting, moved from its normal Monday time for the New Year holiday, is scheduled for 7 p.m., Jan. 3 in City Hall, 201 First Ave. E. Those unable to appear in […]

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Mayor

Amid calls to increase policing at Mass. and Cass, overtime spending surges under Mayor Wu

Last year, hundreds of people living in tents along the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue faced a traumatizing nightly choice: to freeze outside or risk theft, COVID-19 exposure or abuse at a nearby shelter. At the same time, residents in the area felt unsafe in their homes and neglected by city officials, […]

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City Council

City Council bill to pay drug users to return used needles | #citycouncil

Socialist and progressive city council members are looking to advance a bill that would pay drug users to return spent paraphernalia as the number of discarded needles in New York City has more than doubled over the last year. The proposed cash-for-addicts program “would authorize the [Department of Health and Mental Hygiene] to set the […]

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