_______________________________________________________________________ Below is information provided by Great Falls resident Pam Hendrickson which is making the rounds on Facebook. I was asked to post the piece on my public Facebook page and did so yesterday. Every concerned citizen in Great Falls needs to read this and understand what is going on with our city commission. This…
_______________________________________________________________________ Recently I posted the following question on my public Facebook page: What does, or what would, make Great Falls unique in terms of being a destination hot spot for tourism, business, and new residents? Not surprisingly so far I have received 376 comments and ideas coming from a wide variety of Great Fallsians. Or…
_______________________________________________________________________ Recently, I wrote about hosting a series of events this summer for our teens. Well, the first date has been set! I am working with Kevin Bray and The Alumni to host an All Ages Night! The Event will definitely be happening on June 9th to celebrate the start of summer. For $10, all…
Dear Mayor Kelly: In the 2015 City election, you offered your full-throated endorsement for then candidate Tracy Houck to the Great Falls City Commission….. (You wrote this on your campaign Facebook page on October 13, 2015.) In the same election, Houck was found guilty by the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, Jonathan Motl (a Bullock…
_______________________________________________________________________ Here’s another little window into what’s going on at our city commission meetings from May 7, 2019. In this episode Bill Bronson launches a scoldy, pointy little diatribe against Great Falls taxpaying citizens concerning the secret meetings Commissioners Robinson and Moe were having with the GFAS MacLean adoption center about a possible private-public partnership….
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note: due to a technical issue this is a re-post from a story originally put up on 5/21 but later deleted. Someone recently sent me a link to an organization I had never heard of called ‘Forward Montana’. Ostensibly, the groups mission is to get young folks involved in the political process and…
_______________________________________________________________________ For those Great Falls citizens who don’t attend city commission meetings, I thought it would be enlightening to provide a little window into the May 7 meeting along with some of my own observations. First up is Mayor Kelly explaining why it’s just business as usual for city commissioners like Moe and Robinson to…
_______________________________________________________________________ Montana Mac and Cheese, it has a pleasant ring to it. You can almost hear the Trapp family singing, “The Hills are alive with the Sound of Music”. The number 1 item on the Great Falls Development Authorities Top Ten for the first week of May was the proposed cheese plant to be located…
_______________________________________________________________________ We couldn’t help but notice two related local topics this week: Tracy Houck announced her intention to run for reelection to the Great Falls city commission. The City of Great Falls is proposing doubling downtown parking meter fees. We find it rather ironic, and quite amusing, that Houck is using the slogan “A Leader…
_______________________________________________________________________ Well, Great Falls, you have finally done it. You have turned me into a total cynic in a way I have never been before. I used to be a positive force in my own life, and lately, it seems as though everything has been negative in every way. This “negative narrative” in town has…