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Your School Districts are Unappreciated Economic Development Engines – Just ask Winifred, Montana

School districts play are engines of economic development. Beyond education, they drive jobs, infrastructure, and community resilience, challenging the common view of districts as mere cost centers.

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Battery Swapping Is Finally Coming To The USA, Starting With Two Wheels

Eventually conductive charging could replace both static charging as well as battery swapping. 

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GFDA Top Ten for 7/5/26

Janicki is hosting a Community Forum at 5:30 PM on Thursday, (7/9) in Heritage Hall at Great Falls College MSU. Please RSVP here so we have enough seats.

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Both Employers and Employees Face Challenges “Returning to the Office”

Leaders say that in-person work boosts collaboration and productivity. But in 2026, workers continue to act like it does anything but: Having grown accustomed to working in the peace and quiet of their own homes, offices feel more overstimulating and work-inhibiting than ever.

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Are you preparing for the new age of quantum computing and “Q-day”?

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity.

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California Bans ‘Sell By’ Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste

The law standardizes language around expiration dates, aiming to minimize confusion about when food is safe to eat. More than one-third of food sold nationwide is wasted, the U.S.D.A. says. “Consumers get confused and they just default to assuming that whatever date is on the package means ‘don’t eat it and throw it away’,” said Kumar Chandran, policy director at ReFED, a nonprofit focused on reducing food waste.

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The Trump Administration is Shuffling Interior Department Employees To New Roles That Don’t Make Sense

“When I tell you that it makes no sense, I’m not exaggerating,” one employee told SFGATE. “It’s just insane — absolute insanity.”

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Montana Childcare Payment Delays Threaten Provider Stability

Montana’s new Best Beginnings payment system has caused delayed reimbursements, straining childcare providers financially. This delay risks worsening the state’s childcare shortage, especially in rural areas with limited options.

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Great Falls, Montana Set for Economic Boom with Major Investments and GFDA Leadership

“We just didn’t see a replacement for that economic growth through the ’80s and ’90s,” said Jolene Schalper, executive vice president of the Great Falls Development Alliance. “But we reformulated how we approached our community growth then. We took time in the early 2000s to say, as a community, ‘We need to hone in on the key elements here.’”

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Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

Taken together, the actions signal a worrying return to a reality where people with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society, advocates said.

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