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Garrison Junction, a crossroads in Montana history

“Garrison’s halfway between Yellowstone National Park and Glacier Park,”

Dixie EPA’s Accelerated Buildout Reflects a Big Connectivity Push by Mississippi Cooperatives

Over the past eighteen months, southeastern-Mississippi based Dixie Electric Power Association (Dixie EPA) has gone from presenting its initial buildout plans for a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, all the way to connecting its 5,000th subscriber.

Butte’s Praxis Center in need of more loan funding

The Praxis Center is a medical simulation training facility that will focus on the needs of and train rural healthcare workers from all over the country.

Montana-based Eventgroove becomes the first event platform to offer carbon removal with Stripe Climate. Eventgroove is powered by 100% clean wind energy. 

Carbon removal combined with Eventgroove’s carbon-neutral shipping and 100% wind energy becomes another pillar of Eventgroove’s long-standing commitment to helping event organizers run climate-friendly events. 

Funding opportunity for tribal communities to address climate change

The Department of Interior announced this month that it will invest $46 million in funding for tribal communities as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program.

America’s Demographic Winter

Population growth is slowing or reversing just about everywhere in the country. That has enormous implications for our future economy and prosperity.

April 2022 Montana Manufacturing News

C-PACE: A New Financing Option for your Energy and Water Efficiency Projects 

Biden is Doubling Down on a Push to Roll Back Single-Family Zoning Laws

A $10 billion proposal in the president’s budget would use federal grants as an incentive to spur changes with the local rules, which critics blame for stifling affordable housing and fueling racial inequities.

Does the ‘Future of Work’ Open a New Growth Horizon for Small Towns?

Remote work has been lifted up as a new opportunity for rural areas, but some old-fashioned obstacles remain. In small-town Missouri, creativity and collaboration are key for community leaders looking to overcome them.

Are you getting all the internet you’re paying for? Here’s how to tell if your ISP is throttling your connection speed.

Testing your internet connection speed is easier than ever and you don’t even need to be a technology wizard. Here’s what you need to know.

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The Kalispell Chamber of Commerce is the longest-standing and leading advocate for the Flathead Valley community and business climate.

Montana Technology Innovation Partnership (MTIP)- Promoting Technology Commercialization in the State of Montana.

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