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Tester Secures An Additional $9.7 Million to Expand Meat and Poultry Processing in Montana

Tester helped negotiate the ARPA and he was the only Montana statewide official that supported the legislation.

KGVO’s Talk Back with Dave Strohmaier on effort to return passenger rail service to Montana

On the County Talk edition of KGVO’s Talk Back show recently, Missoula County Commissioner Dave Strohmaier provided an update on the effort to return passenger rail service to Montana.

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The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be

New modeling estimates that food production could add a degree Celsius to global warming. But it also points to powerful ways to make diets more sustainable.

Q&A: Building Strong Local Governments Is a Rural and Urban Project – The Fight to Save the Town.

Rural and urban governments experience many of the same challenges and understanding them as interconnected is one way to tackle those issues, argues Michelle Wilde Anderson in her book, The Fight to Save the Town.

Experts: National Physician Shortage Will Hit Rural Areas Harder – What’s a WWAMI?

A study showed that while the entire country is seeing dwindling numbers of physicians, rural areas remain drastically behind their urban counterparts. Paired with worse health outcomes, rural America risks a deepening healthcare crisis.

Angela Zuba of Waters Edge Winery and Bistro shares story of creating wine in Montana

March is Women’s History Month and MTN talked with a female winemaker about how historically, it is a male-dominated industry.

TDS Fiber to serve Missoula, Butte, Great Falls, Helena and Helena Valley. You Can Reserve Your Service Now

“It’s some of the fastest fiber internet in the nation,” said Petersen. TDS Fiber’s product is symmetrical, so uploads and downloads run at the same speed. Petersen said customers especially like TDS internet for streaming and gaming.

Montana’s slow war on the public education system

These actions by the GOP are an all-out war on public education in Montana, dressed up in the guise of parental rights, something parents have always had at all times.

Homeowners Lose Millions to ‘We Buy Houses’ Investors

There are investor purchases that focus on middle-class suburban houses for rent. But there are other investors who seem to prey on lower-income, longtime owner-occupants who might not know what their house is worth. We tried to figure out a way to identify the most parasitic of the investor purchases.

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