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…
Yesterday I received some photos from a local resident showing handbills posted in Great Falls promoting a ‘White Lives Matter’ agenda. I’ve included the pictures in this piece. I was troubled by the pictures. Just as I was troubled by some of the incendiary and hateful messages at the ‘Defund The Police/BLM’ rallies in Great…
Last week E-City Beat published a piece about the Great Falls Tribune’s fawning coverage of all things Democrat in which they promoted a fluff piece on local Dem candidate for the state legislature in House District 24, Barbara Bessette. We linked our piece on our ECB Facebook page and a reader commented on it with…
It should be no surprise to anyone who pays attention to such things that the Great Falls Tribune abandoned even the pretense of objectivity some time ago. Once again the ‘newspaper’ has confirmed it’s rock solid commitment to the far left and the Democrat party by it’s near-slobbering promotion of a local progressive candidate for…