Managing parenting while living with a condition while launching your new business – it’s a lot for the best of us! But there are so many strategies out there to get your small business up and running while tending to your kids and taking care of yourself. Work-life balance is real – and the extra…
Editors note – The following is the text of comments made during public comment at the 2/15/22 Great Falls City Commission meeting by a local citizen who lives in the same neighborhood as the First United Methodist Church. “I’m a lifelong resident of Great Falls, MT. I grew up attending its schools, I graduated from…
During the public comment portion of last night’s Great Falls City Commission meeting quite a few local residents got up and expressed their opinions on the “homeless encampment” at the First United Methodist Church. You can view the video of the meeting here. Public comment begins at about 7 minutes 30 seconds into the meeting….
As the 2022 election draws closer, local candidates for the Montana state legislature are rolling out their campaigns. One Great Falls candidate, Democrat for HD23 Melissa Smith, is busy on Twitter making her views public. Following are a couple of screenshots of Tweets from Smith posted just in the last two days and sent to…
Being the parent of a special needs child is rewarding but challenging. You may often feel wiped out at the end of the day with little time to address your own mental or physical health. The earlier you figure out how to take care of yourself, the better the outcomes will be for you and…
Local Business Owners and Philanthropists Tom and Mary Jane Heisler Give $250,000 to Launch New Scholarship Endowment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 24, 2022 Great Falls Central Catholic High School announces that alumnus Tom Heisler (’61) and his wife, Mary Jane, have donated $250,000 to the Catholic Foundation of Eastern Montana to launch the new Tom…
Last Thursday candidates from across the state started filing their paperwork to run for elective office in Montana. Election Day is November 8, 2022. Here are the state Senate District candidate filings in Cascade County so far. SD 11 – TOM JACOBSON (D) SD 12 – JACOB BACHMEIER (D), WENDY MCKAMEY (R) SD 13 –…
Guest speaker will be former Montana Governor Marc Racicot. See flyer below for details.
This week I received and reviewed some of the latest economic data put out by Patrick Barkey and the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. Once again I found it interesting, and a little discouraging to be honest, to see how Great Falls/Cascade County is faring compared to other Montana…
Rules? What rules? I’ve been following the Great Falls City Commission for years and pointing out instances of, in my opinion, questionable conduct of business. I and others here in Great Falls would say the commission at times appears to make their own rules while ignoring city code when it suits them. The latest instance…