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 2/18/20 As a way to partially fulfill my personal commitment to working for transparent…
Here’s another edition of our roundup of some of the top national, state, and local stories from various news outlets curated in an easy access format. LocalMan found dead in burned mini-van identified (KRTV, Great Falls) “His body was found inside his mini-van on Tuesday morning.” StateMontana’s SCOTUS case (KTVH, Helena) “Today in Bozeman we…
We have in the past featured ‘Angry Reader Comments’, but in yesterday’s piece by Phil Faccenda on this blog, the comment section contained some truly bizarre comments that go beyond angry. Here is an example of one such comment: “You have the thinnest, greyest, unhealthiest looking skin I have ever seen…”? This isn’t just juvenile,…
Here’s the notification on the GFPD Social media post from earlier today. “BOMB THREAT PERSON OF INTEREST – Yesterday (2/10/20) a note was placed on a door at Whittier Elementary School. The note, containing a bomb threat directed at multiple Great Falls’ schools, prompted a city-wide shut down of all Great Falls Public Schools, and…
At Tuesday nights Great Falls City Commission meeting, Commissioner Rick Tryon brought up the “kerfuffle” surrounding the issue of Mayor Bob Kelly signing on as Mayor of Great Falls to a letter to the President expressing support for refugee resettlement in “our communities” and the Mayors apology and explanation. Below is the video transcript from…
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 As a way to partially fulfill my personal commitment to working for transparent and responsive…
If you’re looking for a good Twitter follow (and a classic liberal, no less), check out Dave Rubin. Be sure to click through to see the screens: Hear, hear!
For his role in “misrepresenting” the community, Bob Kelly apologized on his mayoral Facebook page: What do you think of Kelly’s statement?
This Tuesday, the Great Falls City Commission voted 4-1 to extend the terms of Design Review Board (DRB) members. Because some of the members’ terms were set to expire, the commission moved to extend them by one year, thus allowing the DRB to maintain a quorum. The City suspended the DRB in November of 2018….
We recently linked to a tweet from Brit Hume, who had a question for Bernie Sanders. Today, The Daily Caller tweeted out a short clip of that same question being posed to Elizabeth Warren, who, to her credit, had an answer: