GFPS Superintendent Tammy Lacey and her band of merry fools are at it again. The photo shows the dead corpses of more than twenty 70 to 80 year old trees at the historic Great Falls High School Campus. According to Lacey, 73 mature trees, 50 more, will be cut down for fire wood. That should…
Author: Philip M. Faccenda
Bad Advice: A Fall From Grace
Editor’s note: this is for Serena Chrystie Roberson to brighten your day. Note to Readers: This is a satirical story and any reference to characters, living, or dead is purely coincidental. The story begins in the early years,1347, in the Duchy of Grand Fallwick, a small monarchy located close to the border shared by France…
Stinking Rules
Are Great Falls zoning rules for everyone developing property in Great Falls except for the Great Falls Public Schools District? Recently, the GFPS District passed an agenda action item at the Board of Trustees meeting on May 14, 2018, that asks the City of Great Falls to grant a blanket exemption to our local zoning…
Another Fine Mess
Yes folks the Great Falls Public School District is a lot like slapstick, only it’s real. For those of you too young to remember, Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act who appeared in 107 films together during the 1920s and 30s. Their first official film together was “Putting Pants on Philip”, which I…
Great Falls High Under Attack
At the suggestion that Great Falls High School is under attack by our school district administration, some E-City Beat commenters have asked if the Great Falls School District’s actions are believed to be intentional. Whether by intent, or simple ignorance I believe Great Falls High School is threatened and here is why. In 2012 the…
What A Tangled Web…
With three of the four major building projects from the $98M bond levy currently under way, it is important to ask, “How did we get here”? Have the projects produced good results? And has the process of the selection of design consultants been carried out honestly, transparently, and with accountability? I, of course have my…
Honesty, Accountability, Transparency
Drawing inspiration from many commenters on E-City Beat concerning the Great Falls Public School District’s $98M bond and $1.4M levy request, over the next few days we will be presenting views about whether or not the Great Falls Public School District is performing its public service in an honest, accountable and transparent way. In my…
Free Speech Threatened
In a recent E-City Beat piece, ‘Rapping Voters’, we reported that one of Great Falls Public Schools Superintendent Tammy Lacey’s condescending excuses for last Tuesday’s operational levy failure was some amorphous confused “Opposition Group”. “And having an opposition group that has their local school district and local educational opportunities confused with their dislike of government…
Rapping Voters
In the aftermath of the recent school district levy failure, Superintendent Tammy Lacey took to the airwaves and newsprint to give the voters of Great Falls a good rap on the knuckles. Lacey’s condescending explanation of why the levy failed was way off-base and laid the blame on everything except for hers and the district’s…
Enough Is Enough Already
According to USA Today, February 26, 2018, the cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 is $233,610. You can see the breakdown in the header image for this article. What does that have to do with the Great Falls School District’s operational levy that will be decided next week? Well, it means…