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…
Starting today E-City Beat is adding a new feature to the blog – a weekly (at least) roundup of some of the top national, state, and local stories from various news outlets curated in an easy access format. Happy New Year to all of our readers! We hope you enjoy this new addition to our…
George Washington’s Farewell Address is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to “The People of the United States of America”. Washington wrote the letter near the end of his second term as President, before his retirement to his home Mount Vernon. Washington begins his warnings to the American…
This morning House Judiciary Committee Democrats voted two articles of impeachment against President Trump out of committee by a 23-17 vote along strict party lines. There appears to be zero chance that a two-thirds majority of Senators will vote to convict and remove the President if the full House votes next Wednesday to send the…
It is fair to say a large number of property taxpayers are opposed to voting for yet another school district levy. Based on recent school district levies, both those which passed, and those which have failed, it is also fair to say taxpayers have gotten the good, the bad and the ugly…
As I was going through the 2020 Annual Adopted Budget for the City of Great Falls recently, I thought that E-City Beat readers and local citizens in general would find the following statistics of interest. On page 45 of the Budget in Brief is this chart listing past and current major employers in Great Falls….
With the coming of the new year comes another attempt by the Great Falls Public School District to raise your taxes. “What?”, you say, “We’ve just given them $98 million dollars and now they want more, $1.3 million more. For what?” Well of course, the school district will tell you it’s for the kids, but…
Outgoing Great Falls City Commissioner Bill Bronson had a few things to say in the Tribune today, and wouldn’t you know it … he intoned that he just might be smarter than the rest of us. Your private property rights … who needs ’em?! Certainly not Bill Bronson. And who knows better than Bronson how…
California Senator Kamala Harris, a self-proclaimed “top-tier candidate” for the presidency, mercifully ended her failing campaign today, months before the first primary and much to the chagrin of woke progressives on Twitter. Witness the immortal Sally Kohn swipe away at this (to paraphrase Van Jones) “whitelash” by the Democrats: Obviously I’m no…
_______________________________________________________________________ In a November 24, 2019 piece by Andy Kiersz in Business Insider, Great Falls is listed right in the middle of the pack of the 20 Western state towns that folks are “leaving in droves”. From the article: “Using data from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates program, we found the metropolitan…