Comments on: City Commission: East Side http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/ A weblog ("blog") about Great Falls, Montana! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: R M http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/comment-page-1/#comment-15652 R M Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:31:35 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/#comment-15652 I think Great Falls needs to decide to be a town in and of itself. It's time to stop relying on the base to sustain the town. As has been said before, you can do whatever you want to **maybe** get a flying mission back but the folks in D.C. will do what they want. Why not keep the town growing and strengthening on it's own so that one day it won't matter if Malmstrom closes? Also, people need to accept the fact that Malmstrom's mission is no longer flying -- it's ICBM's. Deal with it. I think Great Falls needs to decide to be a town in and of itself. It’s time to stop relying on the base to sustain the town. As has been said before, you can do whatever you want to **maybe** get a flying mission back but the folks in D.C. will do what they want. Why not keep the town growing and strengthening on it’s own so that one day it won’t matter if Malmstrom closes? Also, people need to accept the fact that Malmstrom’s mission is no longer flying — it’s ICBM’s. Deal with it.

]]> By: wolfpack http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/comment-page-1/#comment-15609 wolfpack Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:15:22 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/#comment-15609 The air missions we had in the past made sense for our position on the boarder. With the USSR no longer around we don’t need bombers or a refueling wing to strike/defend from them on our northern boarder. We need to accept a bird in hand instead of continually passing it over for two in the bush. The “Big One” has been coming for almost 20 years now. How long do we let the town grow in an unbalanced fashion until we accept the reduced size of our base? Besides that, why couldn’t the runway just be extended north another 2000 feet and none of this would be an issue. The air missions we had in the past made sense for our position on the boarder. With the USSR no longer around we don’t need bombers or a refueling wing to strike/defend from them on our northern boarder. We need to accept a bird in hand instead of continually passing it over for two in the bush. The “Big One” has been coming for almost 20 years now. How long do we let the town grow in an unbalanced fashion until we accept the reduced size of our base? Besides that, why couldn’t the runway just be extended north another 2000 feet and none of this would be an issue.

]]> By: Aaron Weissman http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/comment-page-1/#comment-15588 Aaron Weissman Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:05:26 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2006/12/19/city-commission-east-side/#comment-15588 We would be fools to allow development. FOOLS. I have a post up on the subject on my blog, <a href="http://treasurestatejudaism.blogspot.com/2006/12/we-need-to-put-up-or-shut-up.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. We would be fools to allow development. FOOLS.

I have a post up on the subject on my blog, here.

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