Tuesday’s Quick Hits

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Greetings! Here are the topics for today’s column:

  • Public Library Funding
  • Vaccinations
  • Harris Will Win

PUBLIC LIBRARY FUNDING:

The funding or taking some of the funding from the Great Falls Public Library is one of the major topics in Great Falls. 

People like me who support the library are pissed that the City Commission is planning on taking seven mills from the library. That has been part of the funding for the library since 1993. 

As The Electric reported:

Those seven mills were included in the library’s funding package proposal for the library levy and those details were included in multiple library public meetings and presented to commissioners who voted to send the levy to the ballot.

The Electric also reported that in January, Commissioner Rick Tryon proposed taking those seven mills from the library to be used toward public safety after the city’s public safety levy failed in November.

Tryon’s public safety levies failed miserably and now he seems to have a vendetta against the library. On his Facebook page, he has been spreading propaganda and enlightening his followers about the city budget process, mills, and how the process works (as he sees it). He also seems to belittle the local “activists” (that is what he calls them) for supporting the library. 

Tryon also talks about how there’s never been a vote on a ballot about the seven mills. That’s true, but many people voted for the library mill levy under the assumption those seven mills were going to be used along with the new levy to make the library even better. 

Some people think they should ask for a public vote about the seven mills. That might be fair. The city used up to $150,000 to try and get voters to support the public safety levy. That’s not right. How much of our money will they spend on the next levy request? 

If you want to fight for the public library, click HERE. 

VACCINATIONS:

I just wanted all the anti-vaxxers who read The Western Word to know that I received my COVID vaccination this week along with my flu vaccination.  This is my fifth COVID vaccination. My COVID card did not have a spot for my fifth entry, so I need to get a new one.

For the readers who live in Cascade County take note:

The Cascade City-County Health Department is offering flu and COVID shots at a drive-thru clinic on September 18 at the Montana Expo Park from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.  

For more information, click HERE.  

HARRIS WILL WIN:

This will send the MAGAs off the deep end…

The Palm Beach Post reports that Allan Lichtman, the historian who correctly predicted the outcome of 9 out of the 10 most recent presidential elections, has made his guess on who will reclaim the White House this year. 

Spoiler alert: it’s Vice President Kamala Harris.

Lichtman uses 13 keys to make his prediction. He does not use polls.

Check out the full story HERE.  

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9 thoughts on “Tuesday’s Quick Hits”

  4. That doesn’t even make sense, Swede. I’m sure there’s lots of folks that would like to see trump gone, but they all happen to be republicans and Zionists. An insane loose canon doesn’t help them out much, especially one with one foot on the grave.

    The fascists wanted Nikki Haley who travels to Israel to sign her name on the bombs destined for Gaza! And she’s a big time christofascist . It’d be bomb, bomb, bomb Iran the first week in office!

    But we Dems love candidate trump. As long as he’s talking, we’re winning! I hope no one tries again to take him out. Let Donald be Donald!

  5. Tryon regularly belittles activists and anyone who criticizes any City action or department, usually in ad hominem attacks, and generally ends up saying something to the effect of “shut up unless you’re in the game”. In effect the commissioner and his opinions are very important but yours, citizen, are not. Does it on social media, does it in mass email replies to written comments, and does it in commission meetings in response to citizens who dare comment in person.

    The good commissioner seems to forget that until he finally backed into an election he could win, he himself was no more than a citizen activist and commenter, prosecuting his various campaigns in print, in commission comments, on the radio, and on social media, while criticizing public officials and policies at all levels of government.

    It’s too bad his anger problem gets the better of him and he doesn’t bother to try and understand what people are saying, because many of them are telling him and the other commissioners what it would take for them to support things like the safety levy. Instead he alienates citizens from their commission, to the point that some or maybe many people voted against the safety levy simply because it was Rick’s baby.

    • I see our mayor has chimed in about the library. He says it’s vital to our community, but he is deeply saddened by the tone of the message he has received. Then he quotes one message that does not seem all that bad.
      It’s tough being the leader I guess. 😂-JmB

      • We can be saddened by the tone of some of the mayor’s posts, too. In a fairly recent Facebook (?) contribution he carried on about “Gerry Jennings and the radical leftist crowd” or some such while trying to discredit some opinion or position. Guy is supposed to be mayor of all Great Falls, not intentionally sowing rancor and division.

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