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It was going to be beautiful. It was going to jump-start a struggling economy.

September 26, 2016 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

A Strong Town practices incremental development. This approach prevents these tragedies from happening. Big developers and mega-projects aren’t going to fix our cities. The kind of development that works – the resilient kind of development – happens at a small, local scale by someone who cares about the place they live.

by Nathaniel M. Hood

Full story: http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/9/24/newport-vermont-ponzi-scheme

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Fraud Charges Mar a Plan to Aid a Struggling Vermont Region

“We call it Little Beirut,” Ms. Brooks said. “It looks like it was bombed.”

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/fraud-charges-mar-a-plan-to-aid-a-struggling-vermont-region.html?_r=0