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TechLink helps the Department of Defense to commercialize leading-edge new technology by partnering DoD labs with private sector companies for technology licensing, transfer, and research and development

Kids UP Inc. of Belgrade, Montana builds pediatric wheelchairs

"When a child sits in a traditional wheelchair, they’re trapped,"

Turning On the Off-Season: Opportunities for Economic Progress in the Yellowstone-Teton Region

Help Spend $100,000 on Economic and Transportation Planning for Greater Yellowstone

Worked Over in Whitefish, MT

A controversial corporation brings foreign students to Whitefish and other cities, giving them menial jobs for lousy pay. Is this any way to see America?

Toasting Wisconsin’s angel and VC imagination

This is the kind of creative thinking needed to create new companies and new jobs at a time when traditional manufacturing companies have been scaling back.

Montana Manufacturing Center – University Technical Assistance Program – Winter 2008 Newsletter

What we see happening in the Montana economy, especially in manufacturing, is exciting. Manufacturing output topped $8 billion last year up from $5 billion
just a few years ago.

Ag Development Council selects Growth Through Agriculture projects – Next Application Deadline is April 30, 2008

The goal of the GTA program is to provide grants and loans to develop new products or innovative ideas that enhance our state’s agricultural industry.

Montana Department of Commerce Announces New Application Cycle for the Montana Main Street Program

"The Main Street Program helps preserve the heart and soul of a community,"

W. R. Grace Agrees to Pay $250 Million in Montana Asbestos Suit. Jury awards $20 million to SF couple in asbestos case

Hundreds of residents in the town, which used to mine vermiculite, have been sickened and killed by asbestos-related diseases.

Climate denial is persistent in Montana. The U.S. Chamber’s Position on Global Climate Change

Republicans on the Environmental Quality Council, which was considering suggestions in a state global-warming report, were calling the very concept of global warming caused by carbon emissions into the atmosphere a “lie” that has been “politicized” by forces insisting that industrial pollution is to blame.

Bitterroot Resort Economic Impact Analysis

The economic analysis proceeds from the assumption that one of two resort
scenarios will be developed in the area: (1) a smaller-scale resort on private land,
or (2) a destination Resort that covers the private land as well as entitlements to
recreational use on adjacent public land.