Editor’s Note: As part of our 2018 Election Year coverage we are here presenting more in our candidate profiles series. So far four of the six candidates running for the Great Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees have responded to our request for profiles. They are, in alphabetical order, Barbara Going, Kim Skornogoski, Judy Tankink…
A School Board Trustee recently lowered the BOOM on a Great Falls citizen by using the “I” bomb to describe his associated intellectual level. Laura Vukasin, can you tell us how you really feel about the taxpayers of our community? “Laura Vukasin, can you tell us how you really feel about the taxpayers of our…
MONEY “Why is it that the further away you get from kids, the more money you make?” Spencer Campbell spends much of his days walking the halls of Elk Ridge Middle School, checking breezeways for kids playing hooky, redirecting foot traffic between classes and checking on substitute teachers. Campbell is one of two assistant principals…
I moved to southwest Kansas in the early nineteen-seventies as that area (Garden City, Dodge City and Liberal) experienced an economic boom based on the growth and influx of cattle feed lots, slaughter-houses and beef transport facilities. Like present day Montana, Finney, Ford and Seward, Kansas counties had just one major export….their young people, most of…
Editor’s note: The following is a piece from one of our readers who is a local consumer, Jo Russell. We thought it was pretty interesting and hope you do too. Just curious if anyone knows why… Last week, a friend told me that the eggs she preferred to buy at a local supermarket had increased…
Did you know that the number of administrators employed by the Great Falls Public School District is now one more than it was at this time last year? The number of administrators, which includes school principals, has gone from 42 to 43 with a reported salary cost of $4.2 million. This was confirmed by GFPS…
The Great Falls Public School District is currently running a campaign to promote another school tax increase and they’re paying for it, in part, with our tax money. One of their favorite slogans is “Facts Matter” yet the fact that our tax dollars are being used to convince us to give them even more of…
Need To Expand, The Ideas, The Money, The GFHS Legacy. Is The School District’s Proposal The Best Solution? NOTABLE EVENT 2017: Great Falls High School’s historic original building was recognized in 2017 by Architectural Digest Magazine as one of the Most Beautiful Public High Schools in America. During 2012 the Great Falls High School Heritage…
Editor’s note: This is our continuing series of profiles for local legislative candidates. Each state House and Senate candidate in the Great Falls area was given the opportunity to submit, in their own words, a brief profile outlining why they’re running, what party they represent and why they are the best candidate for the position….
Are we getting the whole truth about the $13.9 million in new levies that the Great Falls Public School District ($1.348 million) and the City of Great Falls ($12.6 million) wants us to approve? And if we, the taxpayers, don’t approve them will that cause the dire consequences listed in their distributed promotional materials? Okay…