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Why The Future Of Long-Haul Trucking Is Battery Electric

With trucks being heavily used capital goods, the advantage of battery electric vehicles in terms of lower fuel and maintenance costs grows with increasing mileage, making them particularly competitive for long-haul transport.

A City Without Cars Is Already Here, and It’s Idyllic

Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has been car-free for over a decade. Is it time to export their model?

Big Sky high schooler starts Montana’s first Spanish-language publication

Suazo, 19, founded Noticias Montaña, or Mountain News, in 2020. It’s the only Spanish-language publication in Montana and the online publication covers local and regional news in Gallatin County.

Urban Villages for the Proletariat

Compact, walkable urban villages benefit working families and organized labor by creating jobs, improving household affordability, reducing commute duration, improving economic opportunities, and creating cleaner, healthier communities.

City Club Missoula Forum – Dynamic economic forces that are shaping the community and how they affect people living here

“We’re at a critical turning point for what this place looks like in 10 years,” Kier said. “The extent that we keep making it look the same jeopardizes who gets to stay here and live here. If we want to create a place for people, we might need to make some compromises and sacrifices about the way the built environment looks to us.”

How a free S.F. pancake party went viral and brought neighbors together – How about your neighborhood?

Curtis Kimball served hundreds of pancakes on Saturday, the final time he hosted the pancake party for “good vibes”

Now Accepting Applications for Leadership Montana

Leadership Montana exists to develop leaders committed to building a better Montana through knowledge, collaboration, and civility.

Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax

The oil producing nation is learning what happens after a country fills its roads with electric vehicles.

‘Paper Targets – Art Can Be Murder’ by Missoula, Montana’s Steve Saroff

Stalking, art, software, and murder.
But more than crime, Paper Targets is infused with nature and solitude and unwraps big questions about why marginalized people sometimes do bad things.

Video – Building Remarkable – Meadowlark Brewing Expansion with Allison Corbyn – Big Sky Economic Development

I had the opportunity to interview Meadowlark Brewing about their major expansion in Billings. It has been exciting to watch this project unfold from my first trip out to Sidney to see their footprint there (which will continue), through the 2020 switch from distilling beer to making hand sanitizer when communities were in need, to supporting them on a state grant to help with preliminary engineering, to now – almost ready to open their doors!

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Great Falls trade area. Competitive for food, ag, bioprocessing, energy, and support. Closest U.S. metro area to Calgary. Untame Your Entrepreneurial Spirit!

As the hub of learning, creativity and innovation in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley Community College is expanding

Bozeman is a rapidly growing city with a high quality of life in part due to the easy access to the outdoors, burgeoning tech industry, and cultural experiences it offers.