Monthly Archives: March 2017
Tryon: Wages, Population Stagnant; City Taxes And Utilities Up
With the City of Great Falls moving past the financial fiasco of the $5,553,054 bailout (decrease in unassigned General Fund balance) in 2013 to...
Way To Go, GFPS
Say what you will about the School Trustees, but a majority of them seem to be very tuned in to public sentiment.
Last night, the School Board...
Anonymous Packet Hits The Westside, Rips GFPS
A number of Westside residents received a surprise in their mailboxes this week, in the form of the following 12-page packet. In it, the author...
BREAKING: GFPS Budget Committee Recommends $1.2 Million Elementary Levy, $1 Million Tech Levy
At the GFPS budget meeting (which is still underway), the budget committee recommended a $1.2 million levy for elementary schools, as well as a $1...
Benefis FNP: Patient Care Should Trump Union Constraints
On March 9, the Tribune reported that a majority of Benefis RNs signed interest cards to vote on whether or not to form a union. Since then,...
Small Town, Big Government?
After a lively couple of weeks, the City has decided -- in advance of its previously scheduled March 6 meeting -- that the Children's...
A Good Letter To The Editor In The Tribune
A thoughtful letter-to-the-editor recently ran in the Tribune, one that made us wonder: What if the Trump administration did this? What would be the resultant backlash then?
Here's...
City Staff Can Use PowerPoint At Commission Meetings, City Residents Cannot
A number of folks don't think that's fair, and none more so than the Ol' Colonel, Richard Liebert. It's something Liebert has wanted to see changed for...
Colstrip: What Do The Owners Of A Massive Power Plant Owe The Society That’s...
If you want to visit Ground Zero in the intra-GOP debate about what private businesses owe the society that has been built around them,...
The Politics Of Pretending: Crime On The Rise In Great Falls
Three young men beat someone up and stole his shoes and coat on February 26 right in front of the friendly IGA store off...
