News Category: Rural Communities

New in town or a life-long local, here are 5 easy ways to make new friends: Video

Americans are suffering from a loneliness epidemic, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warned in 2023. “Most of us probably think of loneliness as just a bad feeling,” he told USA TODAY. “Loneliness has far greater implications for our health when we struggle with a sense of social disconnection, being lonely or isolated.”

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Montana Economic Developers Association 2025 Spring Conference – 4/22-24 – Livingston, Montana

We are excited to invite you to MEDA’s Annual Membership Meeting, taking place on April 22-24, 2025 in Livingston, MT. This important event will include the election of new board members and feature a larger variety of engaging breakout sessions designed to inspire and inform.

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The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention Given Its Destabilizing Potential for Public Education

This case goes further. It concerns what would be the first fully taxpayer-supported religious school in modern American history.

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More than a thousand rally and march in Missoula for public lands, fired workers – Missoula Resists

“They say this is about efficiency. This is not about government efficiency at all, so let’s unpack what this is about,” Stone-Manning said, referencing firings made by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person. “As they gut our land-management agencies — the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service — they gut these agencies, they’re going to say, ‘Oh my gosh, we can’t manage these public lands, we have to sell them off.’

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Bill approved by North Dakota House would establish state Office of Entrepreneurship – How About Your State?

Warrey’s bill has received support from Right to Start, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to expand entrepreneurial opportunities.

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Tariffs to Have Broad Impacts on Northwest Montana Industries – FYI, Montana is the state that is ranked # 1 as the most vulnerable from the tariffs that have been imposed by executive order:

Economists and industry leaders say the levies will have lasting effects on everything from crop to gasoline prices as trade disputes continue and uncertainty looms

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Waterless camping toilet electrically seals waste out of sight

After finishing up, one presses the button on the face of the Sunny to kick on the electromechanical system that uses a thermo-compression process to hermitically seal the top of the film, then cut it, creating that human-grade dog poop bag we promised way back in the first few words. At that point, the bag can simply be thrown in the trash.

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