Economic Development

Crime

Good News And Bad News, Great Falls: Building Permits Up, Crime Up

Well, Great Falls friends and neighbors, there's some good news and there's some bad news. Good News First According to a recent analysis by the City...

Rick Tryon - January 16, 2023

City Commission

Redefining ‘Handout’: Calumet Gets Tax Abatement

At last weeks Great Falls city commission meeting we voted unanimously to approve a tax abatement, worth about $2.8 million over 10 years, for...

Rick Tryon - May 10, 2022

Economic Development

Great Falls/Cascade County Still Stagnant

At last week's Great Falls city commission meeting we voted to approve a $150,000 funding request, using federal ARPA funds, for the Great Falls...

Rick Tryon - March 7, 2022

Economic Development

Comparing Great Falls’ Economic Data To Rest Of State

This week I received and reviewed some of the latest economic data put out by Patrick Barkey and the Bureau of Business and Economic...

Rick Tryon - January 7, 2022

Economic Development

Montana Minimum Wage Increase?

Editors note: Below is an email forwarded to E-City Beat from Great Falls State Representative Lola Galloway. Dear State Representative Galloway, As Montana continues to discuss...

ECB Staff - February 22, 2021

City Commission

Stop – In The Name Of Fairness And Common Sense

What’s a 50 meter pool that is 25 meters short? If you answered, “very short-sighted”, you’d be correct, but that’s what you are going...

Philip M. Faccenda - February 15, 2021

Economic Development

How Long Before Biden’s Climate Change Agenda Damages Great Falls?

The following excerpts are from an article in the Montana Petroleum Report newsletter entitled "BIDEN TORPEDOES KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE", written by Alan Olson, Executive Director of...

ECB Staff - February 10, 2021

Economic Development