Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public city commissioner Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. Information on the July 21 Tuesday night Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meeting: Work Session – Once again…
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Local Company Offers Full Range Of Digital Transfer Services
Stray Moose Productions is a local one-stop audio-visual production, duplicating and transfer specialist. “Why send your memories out of town when we can do it all right here in the Great Falls area?” – Stray Moose Stray Moose Productions can transfer your VHS and SVHS video tapes of movies, home movies and other content to…
How To Follow The Money Given To Local Political Candidates
In the coming weeks E-City Beat will be posting campaign contribution information for all candidates in Cascade County/Great Falls contested races for the Montana State Legislature. The information is all available online on the Commissioner of Political Practices web site via a searchable form. You can find the portal here: https://appecm.mt.gov/PerceptiveCPPCampaignReports/#! It looks like this:…
University Of Portland Removes Corps Of Discovery Statue
After we published our two opinion pieces from this week (Should Lewis & Clark’s Names & Statues Be Removed? and Pastor Collins Responds To Lewis & Clark Statue Question) concerning statues and monuments memorializing Lewis and Clark, a reader posted in our comments section this link to an article in the online Oregonian dated June…
First Look At Great Falls’ Local Candidates On November Ballot
Following the June 2 primary the field is now narrowed to the candidates who will appear on your November 2020 ballot less than 5 months from now. E-City Beat will be sending all of the local candidates questions and requests for profiles and will be publishing the information for our readers. In addition we will…
Issues On Tap For Great Falls City Commission Meeting, 6/16/20
Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public commissioner’s Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. Here’s some helpful info for Tuesday nights Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meeting. There are a few items of…
Man With First-Hand Experience In Local Triple Homicide Responds To ‘Defund GFPD’
Editors note: by permission from Mr. Copeland we are publishing his letter and Facebook post. City Commissioners, I am writing in regards to the national and now local calls to “Defund the Police”. I have been a resident of Great Falls for over ten years, minus a few attempts to move away that lasted less…
Ambulance Rate Increase And Animal Control/Adoption Issues On GF City Commission Agendas
Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public commissioner’s Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. “COMMISSIONER TRYON’S GREAT FALLS CITY COMMISSION REPORT FOR 6/2/2020 As a way to partially fulfill my personal commitment to working for transparent…
Biden Tells Black Americans, Vote For Him Or “You Ain’t Black”
“Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Those remarks were made Friday by Democratic Presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden in an interview with popular African-American radio show host Charlamagne tha God on his radio program “The Breakfast Club.”…
Legal Weed Under The Big Sky?
Signature gatherers wearing face masks have been spotted around Great Falls trying to get local citizens to sign on to their petition to put the legalization of recreational marijuana on the Montana ballot this November. The group sponsoring the petition drive is called New Approach Montana and here’s their mission statement: “New Approach Montana is…