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20 Grants You Can Apply For to Fund Your Business
These grant programs offer an alternative to debt and equity investments.
“The List” June 2025 10 Things Butte Local Development Corporation Checked Off Our List in the Last Month
Business Recruitment is Heating Up We refined our recruitment marketing materials with new data sets and stats on Butte. We also responded to several Requests for Information from the Montana Department of Commerce business attraction team in collaboration with BSB Community Economic Development.
Interior Secretary Burgum Wants Foreign Visitor Fees, $1B Cut To National Parks
“I have a lot of friends who are Canadians, and I can tell you their distaste for the attitude of the administration toward them is already palpable, and it seems to be spreading around the world.” Sen. Mike Gierau
Can Car-free Living Make You Happier?
The community of Culdesac, Arizona, was designed for pedestrians and cyclists. And residents love it.
Nonprofit Montana League of Cities and Towns works to educate Montana’s local leaders on new state policies
According to Lynch, “The overall umbrella of the municipalities is maintaining local decision making so that communities can have regulations and rules in their communities that reflect what their community wants to see,” Lynch says.
$183 Billion Is Up For Grabs, If Small Businesses Can Read The Fine Print
Small businesses have long complained that federal contracts are too hard to understand. Congress is taking another shot at fixing that with a new plain language bill.
Missoula set to adopt Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan
The plan also calls on the city “to lead by example,” which includes increasing the city’s own EV fleet. Filicicchia said the city has roughly 463 vehicles in its fleet, including 11 fully electric, five plug-in hybrid and 42 conventional hybrid vehicles.
Why Wyoming Isn’t Joining The Ban On Lab-Grown Meat
Despite widespread distaste in Wyoming for lab-grown meat, ranchers see problems with bans like the ones instituted in Montana and Nebraska. Rancher Tyler Lindholm said of the ban, “It’s authoritarian as hell.” What they want instead are clear labels.
GFDA Top Ten for 6-8-25
We successfully supported the Great Falls City Commission that approved annexation and zoning for Meadowview Village, a 163-unit homeownership subdivision, the largest homeownership project being developed by the Upslope Group approved in Great Falls since our first Housing Market Demand Assessment. GFDA has financed the predevelopment work for this exciting development.
2025 Legislative Briefing: What Montana Businesses Need to Know From Parsons Behle & Latimer Hosted by the Missoula Economic Partnership
Attorneys from Parsons Behle & Latimer provided an indepth analysis of some of the major legislation at the recent Montana session at a forum hosted by the Missoula Economic Partnership. Here are the slides from that presentation