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The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 Mbps

The old broadband standard of 25 Mbps wasn’t cutting it anymore.

Why not in Montana? – AAPB and Benton Publish New Handbook: ‘How To Build A Public Broadband Network’ –

More cities and towns across the U.S. are exploring municipal broadband as an increasingly attractive and effective approach to bring ubiquitous, and affordable, high-speed Internet to its residents and businesses.

TechLink February Pulse – Can You Feel the Love?

See this month’s top licensing opportunities from DOD and VA labs.

Can Funding Counties Directly Help Them Overcome Their Biggest Problems?

Thousands of county officials came to Washington, D.C., to make the case with Congress that funding counties directly is the best way to improve lives across the country’s diverse rural and urban communities.

Change the Conversation: Strong Towns are built incrementally

In this excerpt from “Where Did All the Small Developers Go,” housing expert Daniel Herriges describes why incremental development is so hard to do these days, and why we need to open the door to it once again for the sake of our cities.

Our Missoula – Missoula’s vision for future growth and to modernize the development regulations- Subscribe Now

With broad community involvement, Our Missoula will result in an inclusive vision for how Missoula will grow in the future. It will guide critical changes in the code that the City needs to take to carry out that vision.

Infrastructure ‘bootcamps’ help smaller cities win federal grants

The Local Infrastructure Hub has helped participating cities win millions of dollars to address pressing needs in transportation, climate, flood mitigation, rails, broadband and more.

Drive Less, Live More: How States Can Lead the Way in Climate-Smart Transportation

State departments of transportation (DOTs) are uniquely positioned to accelerate the shift to clean transportation. While many have made heartening progress in areas like vehicle electrification, most have neglected other necessary solutions — namely, equitably expanding access to mobility choices and reducing the miles we have to drive (referred to as vehicle miles traveled or VMT).

Montana’s Challenge Process has begun! Webinar 1/12 2pm. The challenge phase will last from January 16th – February 15th

The entire challenge process, but especially this first phase, is about identifying BSLs that are listed incorrectly on Montana’s map. We want the map to be as accurate as possible, so that we can accomplish our goal of providing reliable, high quality Internet to every Montanan. We need your help to do this! The more participation we have, the better the map will be. 

City of Missoula seeks volunteers for downtown improvement working group

Volunteers will participate in up to 12 meetings per year over a three-year period to learn about and provide feedback on SAM projects, including updating Higgins Avenue from Brooks to Broadway, converting Front and Main streets from one-way back to two-way traffic, improving the riverfront trails between Ryman and Kiwanis Park, and optimizing downtown traffic signals between Orange and Van Buren streets.