Montana Economic Development

New Mexico lands are in dire need of tree-thinning, and local companies looking to branch out are more than happy to provide the service By Sue Vorenberg Tribune Reporter There’s an upside to the critically…

BUTTE, Mont. _ This is a town that Superfund rebuilt. Faced with mining contamination similar in scope to the Silver Valley’s, Butte traded conflict for cooperation in cleaning up its massive Superfund site. Karen Dorn…

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced the creation of a HHS Rural Task Force that will conduct a department wide examination of how HHS programs can be strengthened to better serve rural communities. (Thanks…

Local economic development shouldn’t simply comprise a shopping list of projects for which community leaders scramble to gather state and federal funding, according to economist Larry Swanson. By JAMIE OGDEN Staff Reporter "That’s the old…

Taking a walk along Missoula’s riverfront west from the corner of Orange Street and Front Street, some will remember dinners at the Mustard Seed, movies at the old Fox Theater under its spectacular sign and…

"This is an area that for every problem it has, there’s an opportunity," said Larry Swanson, opening Wednesday’s public presentation of findings from the Ravalli County Economic Needs Assessment. By JAMIE OGDEN Staff Reporter Among…

The National Center for Small Communities (NCSC) http://www.smallcommunities.org/ncsc/ is making two new resources available to small town leaders and those engaged in rural development. Government Technology The Thriving Hometowns Network http://www.smallcommunities.org/ncsc/THN.htm is a compilation of…

The GDC is pleased to announce it’s revised website at: http://www.bozeman.org which includes the July 2002 Newsletter with all the news from Gallatin County: http://www.bozeman.org/gdc/upload/July_2002.pdf

Most businesses understand that economic strength and prosperity are generated at the regional level. And the relevance of local, state, and national political boundaries as economic units is continuing to erode. That is, what happens…

The little town of New England, N.D., squats on the Great Plains of America’s heartland, its homes and schools framed by the mammoth grain elevators that soar above the featureless landscape. By Joel Kotkin Washington…