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Trump DEI Purge Hits Affordable Housing Groups

Millions of dollars in affordable housing contracts were canceled after a DOGE review of their websites and social media for terms linked to equity and diversity.

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Poll: 3 in 4 Montanans concerned about being able to afford housing over the next five years

According to the Montana Free Press-Eagleton poll, 2 in 5 Montana households spend more than 30% of their income on rent or mortgage.

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Montana Economic Developers Association 2025 Spring Conference – 4/22-24 – Livingston, Montana

We are excited to invite you to MEDA’s Annual Membership Meeting, taking place on April 22-24, 2025 in Livingston, MT. This important event will include the election of new board members and feature a larger variety of engaging breakout sessions designed to inspire and inform. 

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Habitat for Humanity Accepting Applications for Columbia Falls Townhomes

Located at Sixth Avenue West and Eighth Street West, four townhomes are slated to break ground this spring, bringing a total of 11 homes to be built within the municipality over the next two years

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Rural America Under the Trump Administration

We’re keeping tabs on a slew of executive orders and other administrative actions, with an eye toward the rural implications of Trump’s second term. Come here for short reports and other resources to help understand the latest developments.

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Secret video: State Farm exec appears to confess to manipulating California insurance rate hikes

An apparently secretly-recorded video shows a State Farm executive allegedly admitting that the company threatened to cancel policies in California in order to pressure state insurance regulators to agree to its rate hikes.

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GFDA Top Ten 3-9-25

This year’s Fire Within Awards was record-breaking! We honored 56 incredible women, making it our largest event ever, and filled The Newberry with energy and inspiration.

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The Great American Insurance Retreat: Climate Change, Uninsurable Homes, & The Future Of Real Estate

From 2017 onward, climate change has driven a surge in extreme weather events — unprecedented wildfires, devastating hurricanes, inland flooding, and derechos — all of which are breaking traditional risk models and sending insurers running for the hills. The result? A growing number of regions where home and commercial insurance is becoming unaffordable, unreliable, or outright unavailable.

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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting

Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.

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What does the loneliness epidemic mean for senior citizens?

Last year, the United States Surgeon General declared loneliness across the country as an epidemic, going so far as to claim that isolation and loneliness are a higher cause of death than obesity. Hit especially hard by high rates of loneliness are senior citizens across the country.

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