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Category: Cascade County
Cascade County GOP Hosts Annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner
Guest speaker will be former Montana Governor Marc Racicot. See flyer below for details.
Great Falls Area Company Transfers VHS To DVD – And Much More
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 Productions Stray Moose Productions can transfer your VHS and SVHS video tapes of movies, home movies and other content…
Local Opposition To National Heritage Area Puts Up Billboards
Montanans Opposing Big Sky Country National Heritage Area have paid for three billboards which are now up at highway entrances to the Great Falls community. The purpose of the billboards is to help spread awareness of the proposed Big Sky Country National Heritage Area designation. The proposed National Heritage Area designation would affect all of…
Cascade County GOP Elects Executive Board
PRESS RELEASE FROM CASCADE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE (CCRCC) CYNDI BAKER, CHAIR ELECTION OF EXECUTIVE BOARD The Cascade County Republican Central Committee (CCRCC) recently met in Convention to elect the 2021-2022 Executive Board. Reelected to their prior positions were: Cyndi Baker, Chair Kerry Yates, 1st Vice-Chair Roger Hagan, 2nd Vice-Chair Wendy McKamey, Secretary Fred Fairhurst,…
Ethics, Great Falls, And A National Heritage Area
The Great Falls City Ethics Committee voted on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 to dismiss all allegations of conflicts of interest and ethics violations I made against city officials for providing city employee time and city resources to Big Sky Country National Heritage Area (BSCNHA) Inc. Their decision seemed to be based mostly on the city’s…
Commissioner Houck Requests Closed Ethics Hearing Claiming A “…Personal Attack On Me”
Last summer, I submitted a formal complaint to the Cascade County Attorney against the City of Great Falls regarding use of government resources (aka our tax money) to support a private nonprofit—Big Sky Country National Heritage Area Inc. I cited portions of both the Montana Code Annotated and the Official Code of the City of…
Cascade County Commission Nixes Big Sky Country National Heritage Area
Tuesday afternoon Cascade County Commissioners voted 2-1 to oppose the proposed establishment of the Big Sky Country National Heritage Area. The lone vote to support the NHA was from Commissioner Jane Weber. Weber, also the chair of the BSCNHA Inc Board of Directors, has been criticized for failing to recuse herself from deliberating on and…
Big Local Pushback To Big Sky Country National Heritage Area Effort
Editors note: the following is a press release from Montanans Opposing Big Sky Country National Heritage Area. News Release For Immediate Release: Contact: December 2, 2020 Rae GrulkowskiMontanans Opposing Big Sky Country National Heritage Arearae@3rivers.net406.788.3204 Montanans Says NO to BSCNHA! Great Falls, Cascade County, MT – On December 2, 2020, the thirteenth organization submitted their…
Montana Red Tsunami, Cascade County Red Wave
As of today, the U.S. presidential election is undecided with four states, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, still counting ballots and their corresponding electoral votes still up for grabs. One thing is certain though – the oft-predicted national blue wave sweeping Republicans from office didn’t happen. There wasn’t even a blue splash. In fact…








