We have in the past featured ‘Angry Reader Comments’, but in yesterday’s piece by Phil Faccenda on this blog, the comment section contained some truly bizarre comments that go beyond angry. Here is an example of one such comment: “You have the thinnest, greyest, unhealthiest looking skin I have ever seen…”? This isn’t just juvenile,…
Will The Great Falls Tribune Be Fair?
If you paid any attention to the recent Great Falls City election, you know that three things are true: a positive, pro-growth, pro-transparency agenda reigned over all, that name ID and incumbency forgave serial malfeasance, and that screeching, far-left nobodies were tossed into the electoral trash heap. What is one to make, then, of last-place…
Great Falls Police Seek Help Identifying Potential GFPS Bomb Threat Suspect
Here’s the notification on the GFPD Social media post from earlier today. “BOMB THREAT PERSON OF INTEREST – Yesterday (2/10/20) a note was placed on a door at Whittier Elementary School. The note, containing a bomb threat directed at multiple Great Falls’ schools, prompted a city-wide shut down of all Great Falls Public Schools, and…
Tryon Raises Refugee Resettlement Letter At Commission Meeting
At Tuesday nights Great Falls City Commission meeting, Commissioner Rick Tryon brought up the “kerfuffle” surrounding the issue of Mayor Bob Kelly signing on as Mayor of Great Falls to a letter to the President expressing support for refugee resettlement in “our communities” and the Mayors apology and explanation. Below is the video transcript from…
Tryon’s February 4 City Commission Meetings Preview
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 commissioner’s Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. COMMISSIONER TRYON’S GREAT FALLS CITY COMMISSION REPORT As a way to partially fulfill my personal commitment to working for transparent and responsive…
Rubin Dunks On Rubin
If you’re looking for a good Twitter follow (and a classic liberal, no less), check out Dave Rubin. Be sure to click through to see the screens: Hear, hear!
Poll: Should Mayor Kelly Remove His Name From The “Refugees” Letter?
To recap a wild week here in River City, Mayor Bob Kelly took significant heat for unilaterally inviting refugees to Great Falls. (He has since apologized.) While some of the comments on E-City Beat and elsewhere have not been particularly receptive to the mayor’s mea culpa, I think it’s possible that some of us have…
Are Refugee Resettlement & Climate Change Great Falls Issues?
Great Falls Mayor Bob Kelly deserves kudos for stepping up and apologizing to the public for signing an online letter, as Mayor of Great Falls, to President Trump asking for refugees to be relocated to “our communities”. I appreciate his willingness to take responsibility for his actions. More importantly, the citizens of Great Falls deserve…
Update: Bob Kelly Responds
For his role in “misrepresenting” the community, Bob Kelly apologized on his mayoral Facebook page: What do you think of Kelly’s statement?
#TBT: More Mayoral Overreach
In honor of Bob Kelly’s recently exposed extracurricular activities, I thought it would be interesting to share a story from 14 years ago, penned on New Year’s Day in 2006. It is from Gregg Smith’s old blog, and it tells the tale of another big government liberal mayor of Great Falls: Randy Gray. Back then,…