Editors note: this article has been updated to reflect new or changed information. The sheer awesomeness of our community amazes me once again. We support the Great Falls Police Department and the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office, their officers, employees, and families – several local businesses and individuals have stepped up to add their support. First…
Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public city commissioner Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. Information on the July 21 Tuesday night Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meeting: Work Session – Once again…
There have been lots of headlines recently about the out-of-control violence and unrest in many of our country’s major metropolitan areas. Shootings in Chicago and NYC, as well as other big cities, have reached levels compared to the wild west or Middle East war zones. And of course the mainstream media always describes such madness…
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 Stray Moose Productions can transfer your VHS and SVHS video tapes of movies, home movies and other content to…
In the coming weeks E-City Beat will be posting campaign contribution information for all candidates in Cascade County/Great Falls contested races for the Montana State Legislature. The information is all available online on the Commissioner of Political Practices web site via a searchable form. You can find the portal here: https://appecm.mt.gov/PerceptiveCPPCampaignReports/#! It looks like this:…
Kudos to the Great Falls LGBTQ Center for making their draft proposal for a local non-discrimination ordinance available to the public on their Facebook page. Our community deserves transparency and plenty of time to analyze, study and fully vet the information before beginning the formal process of taking public comment and considering the proposal. Below…
After we published our two opinion pieces from this week (Should Lewis & Clark’s Names & Statues Be Removed? and Pastor Collins Responds To Lewis & Clark Statue Question) concerning statues and monuments memorializing Lewis and Clark, a reader posted in our comments section this link to an article in the online Oregonian dated June…
ARE ALL THINGS SIMPLY BLACK OR WHITE? As we look across the landscape of our American society, and we hear “the deposition” of the many media outlets, it is almost impossible not to take the vantage point that everything is a black or white issue. Hard to say, but maybe there is a possibility that…
Not surprisingly, my Great Falls City Commissioner email inbox has been very interesting recently. So in doing my best to respond to citizen’s demands for transparency, here are two emails representing the current social and cultural divide in our country, both of which I received within the last three days. Here’s the first. Here’s the…
Once again we are seeing throngs of angry ‘protesters’ tear down, deface, and destroy publicly owned statues and monuments which memorialize national historical figures. Personally, I think a reasonable argument can be made that it’s inappropriate and offensive to honor Confederate generals who were slave owners by placing their images in the public square. However…