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Elections in Great Falls for 2023: Everything You Need to Know (Almost)
School Election There are currently three, three-year term seats on the District School Board that are expiring. Individuals who are interested in running must file a DECLARATION OF INTENT AND OATH OF CANDIDACY FOR TRUSTEE CANDIDATES with the County Elections Office. This… Read More ›
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Stagecoach Mary Fields Statue Fundraiser
March 15th, 2023 Spend the afternoon in Cascade, Montana It’s Mary Fields Day! Mary Fields chose March 15th for her birthday. The Mary Fields Statue Committee will hold a fundraiser March 15th, 2023 to honor Mary. She was a prominent… Read More ›
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Keep Our Residents Warm with Housed Great Falls
Housed Great Falls (HGF) is a grassroots 501(c)(3) nonprofit that aims to provide missing scaffolding in Great Falls to unhoused and unsheltered community members. Their long term goal is a transitional housing community, with the Cold Weather Drop In Center… Read More ›
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Legislative Candidate Spotlight: Jasmine Krotkov, HD 25
Great Falls Rising invited all the legislative candidates in Cascade County to fill out our survey, which consisted of the questions in our 2022 Voter’s Guide. This is the second survey sent back to us. Jasmine Krotkov is a Democrat candidate… Read More ›
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Legislative Candidate Spotlight: Nick Henry, HD 22
Great Falls Rising invited all the legislative candidates in Cascade County to fill out our survey, which consisted of the questions in our 2022 Voter’s Guide. This is the first survey sent back to us. Nick Henry is a Democrat… Read More ›
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Will Your Legislators Represent You in 2023?
VOTERS: Do you feel we need a Constitutional Convention to overhaul the 1972 Montana State Constitution, and if so, why? The Great Falls Rising website offers issues that are important to voters in Montana, why they’re important and how our local… Read More ›
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What’s at Stake: Montana NOW Forum on Reproductive Rights
Montana NOW had a very successful Public Forum on What’s at Stake last Saturday, October 8th, at the Helena Public Library and wanted to share the recording because of its significance and powerful, informative non-partisan presentations!! You’ll learn from stellar Forum… Read More ›
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Great Falls Rising 2022 Voter’s Guide
Ask candidates where they stand on these matters before casting votes for them in the forthcoming 2022 Elections. What policies would you enact in Helena 2023 to ensure the safety from gun violence of all Montanans, from school children to… Read More ›
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The Women Delegates Serving Montana at the 1972 Constitutional Convention
To preface this message from Great Falls Rising, let’s remember that the role of women in US government was relatively new. In fact, the very first woman to serve in the US Congress was Montana’s own Jeannette Rankin. She was… Read More ›
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day! Today Great Falls Rising celebrates women everywhere not afraid to stand up every day. On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, Yulia Zhivtsova knew that she needed to do something, observing that “it’s quite a horrible… Read More ›
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Video Now Available: The Need, Construction, and Implementation of the 1972 Montana Constitution.
Great Falls Rising thanks our convention speakers and know that we are all much richer for the stories we have heard. Let’s keep up the work of preserving this piece of history and continuing the role of our 1972 constitution…. Read More ›
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SPECIAL EVENT: The Need, Construction, and Implementation of the 1972 Montana Constitution
There are few events in the history of the state of Montana that can equal what happened in the early and mid 1970s to involve and include the citizens of our great state. Great Falls Rising welcomes you to join us for recap and celebration with the folks who made… Read More ›
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Elections in Great Falls for 2022: Everything You Need to Know
For current requirements to vote in Montana, click here. School Board Trustee Election There are currently three seats for three-year terms on the District School Board that are expiring, and one seat for a one-year term for someone who will… Read More ›
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Update from Kids Education Yes (KEY) and Great Falls Public Schools on Challenges and OTO Funds
Our Great Falls Rising January virtual program with Tom Moore, Superintendent of GFPS, and Jamie Marshall, chairperson of Kids Education YES (KEY), was outstanding. They spoke about the trials experienced in our schools due to the COVID pandemic and the… Read More ›
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Public Education in Great Falls: A Community Perspective
On Thursday, January 20 at 6 pm, please join our Great Falls Public Schools Superintendent, Tom Moore, and Kids Education Yes (KEY) Chair, Jamie Marshall, for a virtual presentation on public education in our local community. Information on challenges and opportunities resulting… Read More ›
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LWV Series on the 50th Anniversary of the Montana Constitution: ‘Ask Not What You Can Do’
On January 12th, the League of Women Voters (LWV) from the Helena area and the Lewis and Clark Library hosted their first installment in the series which featured retired Montana Supreme Court Justice Jim Nelson and how the Montana Constitution… Read More ›
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School Superintendents Express No Confidence in MT OPI’s Elsie Arntzen
For those of you who are interested in the connection between our Great Falls Public Schools and the Office of Public Instruction, the attached file is an interesting letter from the superintendents of all eight AA schools to Ms. Arntzen.
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GFR December Gathering: Update on the BSCNHA by Jane Weber and Bill Bronson
There were 63 folks who attended the virtual gathering on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021. Jane Weber shared background information on the Big Sky Country National Heritage Area (BSCNHA) project, and along with Bill Bronson, Legal Counsel for BSCNHA, provided an… Read More ›
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Update on the Big Sky Country National Heritage Area Project
December Virtual Gathering on December 7th at 6:30 pm. Curious why the New York Times sent a reporter and award-winning photographer to Great Falls and published a full-page cover story in their paper revealing conspiracy theories spreading across town? Love… Read More ›
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Local Agencies Help Youth Through Pandemic
Great Falls Rising’s virtual gathering on October 27th provided a lot of information about local agencies helping youth here for the past year and a half. Kristy Pontet-Stroop, Executive Director for the Alliance For Youth; Jesse Mahugh, Executive Director of… Read More ›
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Learn How Local Agencies are Supporting Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Many of our youth are not doing well and are suffering from COVID-induced mental distress and loneliness, compounded by poverty, abuse and food insecurity. We’ll have a panel representing Alliance for Youth, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, and… Read More ›
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GFR Zoom Gathering: When Women were ‘Granted’ the Right to Vote
Great Falls Rising invites you to a Zoom gathering to tell you about the final chapter in women’s 72-year struggle to win the vote. After the 19th Amendment was approved by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson, it had to be… Read More ›
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ACTION NEEDED: The US Senate is working on climate change right now.
For your information from Citizens’ Climate Lobby… Citizens’ Climate Lobby is emailing to ask a quick favor: The reconciliation package being drafted in the Senate right now is the best pathway climate advocates have had in a decade to enact a… Read More ›
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Guest Opinion: State Supreme Court trumps federal on voting law
From The Montana Standard, see the op-ed here. In its 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder and in its July 1, 2021 decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the United States Supreme Court made clear that it will not… Read More ›
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Changes to Voting Laws for Montana This Year
Cascade County Clerk & Recorder Rina Fontana Moore discussed changes to voting access and processing on Tuesday evening at the Great Falls Rising gathering. Rina wanted to make folks aware at the start of the evening that when a new… Read More ›
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