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This Exclusive Women’s Network Is Going National

“We don’t think of ourselves as an events company, just like we don’t think of ourselves as a [co-working] space company,” she says. “We are a community first.”

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

Will professionals still choose cities if they have the option to work from the beach (or the mountains and plains of Montana)? Research by Prithwiraj Choudhury considers the radical ripple effects of remote work.

Can Do: Addressing Montana’s childcare crisis with Heather Foster, CEO of the Missoula Family YMCA

Covid-19 exacerbated an already problematic situation, and disproportionately affected women, who were predominantly the ones who left the workforce to provide home care. Montana continues to struggle to provide access to affordable childcare, reflecting the nationwide trends.

Anaconda keeping up with business and population boom

“Today there’s a lot of success that you can see in all of the retail shops and restaurants and bars and businesses that are opening up in the downtown area.” said Adam Vauthier, executive director of Discover Anaconda.

Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick: Requiem for dreams, or not

Coming with a livelihood already intact or money in-hand is now actually a prerequisite for moving to Missoula, or you can’t come at all. The place just costs too much to move here and then figure it out.

Crickets tipped to replace kale, acai, blueberries as mainstream superfoods in 2022 in Australia

There’s been a buzz about the nutritional benefits of insects for years, but 2022 is the year creepy-crawlies are finally tipped to make it onto mainstream supermarket shelves. 

Bitcoin mining company to build data center in Montana

Mr. Wonderful on the reality TV series “Shark Tank” business mogul Kevin O’Leary touted Montana as a business-friendly state. He compared Montana’s business environment to what he called the “Norway model,” meaning that the European country is friendly to business and has access to renewable energy.

Montana Dept. of Commerce awards $662,500 in job creation grants to 5 local businesses

The grant funding is provided by the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund and will go to businesses that generate greater opportunities for local residents.

JP Morgan/Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says ‘brace yourself’ for an economic hurricane caused by the Fed and Ukraine war

“You’d better brace yourself,” Dimon told the roomful of analysts and investors. “JPMorgan is bracing ourselves and we’re going to be very conservative with our balance sheet.”

Montana West Economic Development June Business Bulletin

Last week Montana West’s staff was in Anaconda for the Spring Montana Economic Developers Association Conference. We joined our colleagues from around the state to talk about broadband, workforce, value-added agriculture and hear program updates from our state and national partners. Thanks to the Anaconda community for hosting us and sharing some of the new projects happening in downtown.

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