Whoa – with all of the rain and the mild temperatures, looks like summer snuck up on us! Wouldja believe that the first edition of “Alive @ Five” for 2008 will be this evening? It will be centered at 1st Avenue South & 3rd Street, and the scheduled band is the awesome 49th Street Blues Project. Here’s the schedule for the rest of the summer (date, location, band): June 12: Central Ave & 4th Street; Nervous Norvis & The...
I don’t know how many supporters the Obama team expected to attend this evening’s rally at the Four Seasons Arena, but I bet they were hoping for more than 2,400. Frankly, I expected to read that more people showed up, too. And on the other side of the Dem divide, former President Bill Clinton will be in Great Falls on Sunday, appearing at 3:45 at the Paris Gibson Education Center. If anyone attended the Obama rally, or plans to...
A resident of Great Falls who supports Barack Obama got the chance to meet her candidate by knocking on lots of doors: Vicki, a former teacher from Great Falls, is a lifelong Republican who is supporting Barack for President. She admires Barack becase she says, “he’s a thinking person,” and she and her husband, a retired military officer, both voted for Barack by absentee ballot…Vicki was one of the ten winners of the “Montana Change Challenge,” and after knocking...
Memorial Day is an occasion for us to honor those who have died while serving in the United States military, and while certainly not every person listed at the Montana Veterans Memorial is (a) dead, or (b) died while serving, it is nevertheless only natural to focus on such a location on this day. And if you visit the memorial today, please note: “May 26, 2008 A very special Memorial Day ceremony will be held at Montana Veterans Memorial...
GF Girl alerts us that the City has finished the study examining the feasibility of converting 1st and 2nd Avenue South and 5th and 6th Street to two-way streets, from their current one-way status. The conclusion of the study: The public comments, Neighborhood Council feedback, investigation into costs and the public opinion survey, all demonstrate there is little support for the conversion. Based on the above findings, staff recommends that all current efforts to convert the subject one-way streets...
A loyal reader named Tyson (who hails from Great Falls) alerted me that Conan O’Brien referenced our fair community on his TV show last night. Unfortunately, he was off by about 320 miles. Conan joked about the lone high-school graduate in Opheim, Montana (at about the 5:30 mark in the video). The Opheim story has received lots of press — even my mother in Arkansas e-mailed me about it. But since the Associated Press dateline reads “Great Falls,” I...
- If you’re a political junkie, you can see which of your neighbors have donated to which candidates. For example: according to the HuffPo, Cheryl Crawley, our new GFPS superintendent, donated $350 to Barack Obama. On the other side, Amy Astin, who used to work for Rep Denny Rehberg, donated $500 to Mitt Romney’s campaign, according to NewsMeat. - The keyword in 2008 seems to be “superdelegates.” So how many does Montana have, exactly, and who are they? Check...
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