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A Great Idea Means Nothing Without the Right Market — Here’s How to Find It

  Building momentum without an existing user base is hard. But if your business is going to succeed, it has to be done.

Rural America Under the Trump Administration

We’re keeping tabs on a slew of executive orders and other administrative actions, with an eye toward the rural implications of Trump’s second term. Come here for short reports and other resources to help understand the latest developments.

Secret video: State Farm exec appears to confess to manipulating California insurance rate hikes

An apparently secretly-recorded video shows a State Farm executive allegedly admitting that the company threatened to cancel policies in California in order to pressure state insurance regulators to agree to its rate hikes.

Roughly a thousand people rally in Missoula to protect public lands – Rallygoers ‘Stand Up for Science’ at Montana State University as part of nationwide campaign

“By taking away the people who take care of the land, it’s going to open it up for potentially private sale or turning the land over to the states, which could then lead to private sale, which is not what we’re trying to do,” said Haley Gamertsfelder, co-organizer of the march.

The Biggest US Banks Have All Backed Out of a Commitment to Reach Net Zero

In the lead up to the inauguration, the six largest US banks left a voluntary alliance with the UN to reach net zero by 2050. Now, critics are calling for new climate laws.

The Great American Insurance Retreat: Climate Change, Uninsurable Homes, & The Future Of Real Estate

From 2017 onward, climate change has driven a surge in extreme weather events — unprecedented wildfires, devastating hurricanes, inland flooding, and derechos — all of which are breaking traditional risk models and sending insurers running for the hills. The result? A growing number of regions where home and commercial insurance is becoming unaffordable, unreliable, or outright unavailable.

Airborne Outfitters Licenses Tech to Collaborate on Drone Detector with U.S. Navy Lab

TechLink – the authorized technology transfer partner for the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs – helped Evatt and company with both the BARFITE and UAV drone detector licensing deals, at no cost to the company.  

The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting

Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.

Former Glacier National Park superintendent: NPS, USFS personnel cuts not sustainable

Almost three weeks have passed since Elon Musk fired thousands of public land employees, and although problems have started to surface in national parks and forests, they’re only a hint of the full damage that could follow, according to a roundtable discussion.

Trump slashed the Forest Service and put a timber exec in charge. It could lead to a corporate takeover of public lands Employees warn that recent firings could weaken protections for public lands.

“When you look at the other executive orders . . . our public lands are f**ked,” Carvajal said.