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Nearly $4.5 million directed to local school districts through tax credit program

Donors — taxpayers, estates, trusts or businesses — can donate money to two separate buckets of recipients: K-12 public schools and organizations that provide scholarships to private school students. The portal opened on Jan. 17, and by the end of the day, nearly $4.4 million had been donated to local school districts and over $3.9 million to student scholarship organizations.

Neuroscience Says 1 Brainless Habit Improves Memory, Boosts Creativity, and Reduces Stress

Neuroscience has uncovered the benefits of what was once dismissed as unproductive and a waste of time.

Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise

Idaho’s capital city is seeing an influx of young people as they apply for tech jobs away from big coastal cities amid massive layoffs and a disillusion with Big Tech.

Best & Worst States to Start a Business (2024)

In this study, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 25 key indicators of startup success to determine the most fertile grounds in which to launch and grow an enterprise.

Red Cross volunteer delivery drivers like Wolf Ametsbichler save lives in rural Montana communities

The Montana Red Cross is currently in need of 34 more transportation specialists across the state, including seven in Missoula.

The Food, Fuel, and Fiber Focus: Tools & Resources to Support Your Ag Business

This newsletter is your monthly check in for all the tools and resources you might need.

Missoula College Awarded $10K Grant to Support Diesel Technology Students

The $10,000 award, provided by Modern Machinery and The Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, will directly support the students enrolled in the Diesel Technology Program at Missoula College’s West Campus.

Butte competing for new battery component manufacturing plant

Butte is going to have to compete with a city in Washington state if it wants to woo a Norwegian-based company to build a plant south of Butte that will make components for lithium-ion batteries and create many good-paying jobs.

Lawmakers announce bipartisan agreement to enhance child tax credit

The proposal would help lift nearly 500,000 children out of poverty as lawmakers are poised to enhance the child tax credit.

Montana State awarded grant to boost high-performance computing capacity

The upgrade will roughly double current computation capacity and increase computing performance for some workloads tenfold, he said.