You might have seen this popping up around town (we hope!), but we are happy to bring to you, by popular demand, the first print edition of E-City Beat. We’re starting small, but already have plans for future editions. Feel free to print and send to your friends who don’t live online, and as always,…
If you’re tried to reach us in the past few days, you probably noticed that our website had a few glitches. For that, I apologize. We have been in the process of upgrading to a managed hosting service. Simply put, E-City Beat now receives too much traffic to operate any other way. In March, this…
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,…
Starting today, E-City Beat is sporting a new look. We’ve streamlined our blog page design and we hope that you, our awesome readers, like the change. We’re also looking forward to bringing you additional content this year including local, state, and national information and opinion. Election 2020 should be exciting and interesting at all levels!…
In an October 20, 2019 comment section posted on a public Facebook page, Great Falls city commissioner Tracy Houck accused E-City Beat of publishing untrue “stuff” about her involvement in the City’s recent Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, funding debacle. “I read the stuff a local blog writes about me and it’s not true.” Though…
________________________________________________________________________ Okay, so I was intrigued when I was informed by a friend this morning that someone was bashing poor old Ricky Tryon on the E-City Beat Facebook page. When I went and took a look and saw it was someone called Jasmine Cassandra my first impression was, “Who?”. But then I remembered that…
You know who deserves some credit? Jenn Rowell, that’s who! Rowell is a former Tribune reporter who now runs The Electric, a local news site. Unfortunately, she seems a little upset with us today. This morning we ran a story about HUD coming down on various conflicts of interest within the city’s CDBG program. We…
Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful holiday season and wishing all a marvelous, prosperous 2018. We look forward to continuing our mission to publish great content about our city, state and region in the coming year. Stay tuned this week for a very interesting and informative piece written by Great Falls Public School District board…
This morning, we published a post by George Nikolakakos, leader of the Great Falls Area Concerned Citizens group opposing the slaughterhouse. In the interests of balance, several days ago we also reached out to Todd Hanson of Norseman Consulting Group, who has been working with project developer Friesen Foods. We hope Hanson will take us…
After several months of inactivity, E-City Beat is back! We have spent our hiatus adding contributors and developing an improved reader-centric site and we think we have succeeded. Our core values remain the same: to examine and to comment on important and timely issues that matter to residents of Great Falls, our Central Montana region…