Montana Business

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Bob Tutskey has formed Tutskey Marketing & Public Relations offering marketing consulting, planning, budget management and public relations services to local and regional businesses. Bob can be reached at 546-9399 or [email protected].

Cable Technology President Ed Buttrey said only two companies out of 1,500 Lockheed Martin suppliers won the award at a ceremony in Minneapolis for meeting stringent performance standards.

Child care is an enormous industry in Montana, employing more than 6,600 people — significantly more than trucking, real estate, logging or coal mining.

Yet, according to child care experts, providers and employees, Montana’s child care system has serious flaws.

ABCO, which has offices in Washington and Idaho, has collected 1.1 million tons of wood waste used to generate electricity in facilities across the Northwest.

The state ended the budget year in mid-2009 with a preliminary general fund budget surplus of $392 million, or nearly $23 million more than the Legislature had projected, a legislative fiscal analyst told a committee Thursday.

The Two Rivers Detention Center was promoted as the largest economic development project in decades in the small town of Hardin when the jail was built two years ago. But it has been vacant ever since.

It’s the Economy,
Stupid!

Greg Smith, executive director of Two Rivers Authority, said the contract will bring a first-wave of about 200 medium- to minimum-security prisoners, and eventually enough prisoners to fill the 464-bed facility.

“Our clients and prospects are clamoring for more social web functionality. With the addition of HiveLive, we meet all the customer experience needs of consumer-focused organizations today, with market-leading e-service capabilities, a robust contact center solution, and now an innovative social platform. It is that unmatched combination of customer experience and social expertise that gives us a much expanded opportunity to provide even more value to our clients.”
Greg Gianforte, CEO, RightNow