________________________________________________________________________ E-City Beat is pleased to share the following as a public service to local readers. PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jerrica Seilstad August 9, 2018 MSU Extension Agent, Cascade County 406-454-6980 Jerrica.seilstad@montana.edu CASCADE COUNTY 4-H ENROLLMENT OPENS ONLINE SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 www.mt.4honline.com Cascade County, MT—Enrollment for the 2018-2019 4-H year opens online…
________________________________________________________________________ Today’s education industrial complex charged with educating our children is big business, costing an estimated $620 Billion a year. The Great Falls Public Schools District, with an annual budget of $91 million, is part of that bigger complex. The taxpayers of Great Falls have supported our school system since 1886, and continue to…
________________________________________________________________________ In a recent article posted in The Electric there’s a quote from Great Falls Mayor Bob Kelly that I found to be interesting…and very revealing. ‘Kelly said some people think the city discourages development. “When people say we don’t encourage, of course we do, of course we want development,” Kelly said. “We don’t…
________________________________________________________________________ The Great Falls Public School District Just Doesn’t Learn We all understand that the GFPS District offices are located at a higher geographic elevation than the rest of Great Falls, but is the air so much more rarified that the administration’s judgement is clouded? Monday night the school board will consider, and likely…
________________________________________________________________________ Are you just plain stumped about the bad decisions made by the Great Falls Public Schools? Have you ever wondered why so many bad decisions have been made by the Great Falls Public School District? The school district administration seems to step in it every chance they get. These people are supposedly highly educated,…
________________________________________________________________________ I find it interesting that when I point out some of the harsh realities going on in Great Falls the same old group of usual suspects wag their fingers and scold me for being “negative” and not focusing on the “positive”. It’s almost always the same folks doing the scolding who are partly…
________________________________________________________________________ We will be hosting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser at the Children’s Museum on September 23rd from 4-9pm at $10 a plate. Hope to see you there. For twenty years the Children’s Museum of Montana has proudly offered families and organizations an option outside of daycare and school to bring their children for quality…
________________________________________________________________________ How to grow the local economy is by far the most asked question we hear. The suggestions range from recruiting hi tech businesses to getting a Red Lobster. Besides Malmstrom Air Force Base and the local poverty industry, the most significant business in Great Falls is the import-export business, and it has been…
________________________________________________________________________ There have been two disturbing stories in the last 10 days about Great Falls which have raised a lot of discussion and a lot of eyebrows around town. First is the article which corroborates an unpleasant reality about our town, a reality that many folks have been concerned about and sounding the alarm…
________________________________________________________________________ In “Pretty Little Lies: Part One” we were looking at how Great Falls city commissioner Tracy Houck’s recent comments on a local Facebook post provide “an example of how public officials and politicians skew and massage facts to make themselves look better or avoid accountability.” Continuing now with Houck’s “clarification” (You can see…