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Turns Out There’s Good News on Main St.

This clustering of families, after decades of dispersion, will spur more localism, which has a simple premise: The longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with and care for those places.

Road Closures, Pedestrianization Key to Successful Urbanization

Inspired by a visionary Dane, communities around the world are reacquainting their citizens with the joys of walking and cycling. Can cities in climate-challenged Canada get off car-free as well?

Cities and Ambition

A friend who moved to Silicon Valley in the late 90s said the worst thing about living there was the low quality of the eavesdropping.

Friday Funny: Cat Key to Town’s Economic Development by more than $10 million

A stray cat born and raised at a Japanese train station has been named its official stationmaster — and become a tourist attraction that’s successfully boosted the local economy by more than $10 million.

Eleven NEW Community-Friendly Grants

Eleven NEW Community-Friendly Grants have been added to the Extension Community Resources Program website at: http://extn.msu.montana.edu/CommRes/grantopps.asp David M. Young, Professor Community Resource Specialist Extension Service & College of Nursing "Facilitating Community Transformation – from Striving…

Transition Towns Wiki

This site provides a focal point for all of these towns, villages, cities and localities around the world as they implement their own Transition Initiative.

Montana Warm Line launched to support those with mental illness.

Eighty percent of Montana communities have less than 3000 residents. Mental health problems don’t only affect those living within 10 or 20 miles of a mental health clinic or provider, but many of the people who live in these rural communities, too.

Thirteen NEW Community-Friendly Grants

Thirteen NEW Community-Friendly Grants have been added to the Extension Community Resources Program website at: http://extn.msu.montana.edu/CommRes/grantopps.asp David M. Young, Professor Community Resource Specialist Extension Service & College of Nursing "Facilitating Community Transformation – from Striving…

Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards

Officials hope that offering the freedom to forgo parking will lead to denser, more walkable, transit-friendly development.

$67,000 grant funds Montana mental illness hotline

The Montana Warm Line provides telephone- and Internet-based support for people who are looking for help but are not in crisis.