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USDA Awards More than $2.2 Million in Grants to Support Montana Agricultural Producers

In 2023, USDA Rural Development in Montana awarded more than $2.2 million in direct funds to 10 rural small businesses and agricultural producers through its Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program, which is designed to help generate new products, create and expand marketing opportunities, and increase overall producer income to grow local economies in rural and Tribal areas.

Helena print shop and marketing business sells to national brand

Allegra, a local print shop and marketing company operating in downtown Helena for more than 40 years, was sold at the beginning of 2024 to a national brand.

Montana State awarded grant to boost high-performance computing capacity

The upgrade will roughly double current computation capacity and increase computing performance for some workloads tenfold, he said. 

This Week at Strong Towns – Strong Towns On The Ground – “How Many People Have to Die to Make a Street Safer?”

“Okay, You Know How To Fix a Deadly Stroad. Now Do It 1,000 Times.” || by Daniel Herriges

“The donut effect” is reshaping America’s cities

The most pronounced dynamic shaping U.S. cities heading into 2024 is “the donut effect” — a hollowing of the urban core as people, jobs and retailers flee to the suburbs and exurbs.

Montana tax payments can be directed to public school systems

Montana taxpayers have the ability to participate in a dollar-for-dollar tax credit program as tax season begins.

Supreme Court to Reconsider Martin v. Boise – tent encampments on public property

The justices agreed to hear an appeal from the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, of a 2022 U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that has the potential to loosen restrictions on how nine Western states deal with tent encampments on public property.

A Montana first: Yellowstone Club starts using treated wastewater to make snow

Trout Unlimited, American Rivers, Gallatin River Task Force, Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Association of Gallatin Agricultural Irrigators have all voiced support for the project.

GFDA – Upcoming Trainings: Starting a Business Simplified, Government Contracting and Website Bootcamp!

The Great Falls Region will be a proud, positive, and vibrant community, which welcomes new people, new investments, and innovative opportunities while celebrating its authentic and diverse Montana culture. Our community will be a safe and inclusive place to raise families and will offer opportunities for individual growth and quality of life, which retains and grows our population.

Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick shut out of Governor Gianforte’s property tax task force, but City Council gets seat

Slotnick said counties across the state “now feel this problem acutely” and added that the “appetite for fixing the system has never been greater.”

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Montana Bioscience Cluster Initiative - Collaborative program design and execution and integrated programs fostering innovation, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and sustainable small businesses

As the hub of learning, creativity and innovation in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley Community College is expanding

Big Sky EDA- Building Businesses and Creating Jobs in the Greater Billings, Montana area