From the GFPD Facebook page at approximately 3:30 PM Thursday afternoon, 2/20/20: “MISSING TEEN! Please help Detective Cunningham make contact with Selena Lea Ream. Selena was last seen on 2/14/2020 at approximately 12AM. It is believed Selena may be in Great Falls, Billings, or Kalispell, and we are concerned for her safety. It is unknown…
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 FOR 2/18/20 As a way to partially fulfill my personal commitment to working for transparent…
Here’s another edition of our roundup of some of the top national, state, and local stories from various news outlets curated in an easy access format. LocalMan found dead in burned mini-van identified (KRTV, Great Falls) “His body was found inside his mini-van on Tuesday morning.” StateMontana’s SCOTUS case (KTVH, Helena) “Today in Bozeman we…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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…