Big Sky Commerce

• Earth Day 2022 ‘It’s overwhelming’: Volunteers clean up Reserve Street Bridge encampment “Let’s Improve Missoula’s Reserve Street”

  “It’s overwhelming how much trash there is,” said Kevin Davis, who helped organize this year’s effort. “I’d say there’s more trash this year than what we’ve had the last couple of years.”

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Economic Development Top 10 for 4-24-22

  Here is our Top 17 for this week celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen the Great Falls regional economy — Montana’s Golden Triangle. And, sharing business resources and skill-building opportunities to empower your success.

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• 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.

Montana Businesses Seeking Investment or For Sale

• 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.

Housing

• Australian insurer creates extreme weather-proof home concept design

  The house is affordable, insurable, and highly resilient to rain, wind, and fire

Montana Business

• Carpet One Floor & Home of Billings has recycled 850 tons of worn-out carpet product

  The decision came about partly for business reasons and partly for environmental reasons.

Visit Montana

• Garrison Junction, a crossroads in Montana history

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

• “Unseen Missoula” guided tours bring to light history of Garden City

  Whether it’s cabin fever or some spring blues and the need to get out of the house is alive and well, Downtown Missoula Partnership has got us all covered. In…

Idaho News & Events

• Happy Earth Day Solar Roadies! Idaho-based Solar Roadways Updates

  As most of you know, we invented Solar Roadways with the goal of helping the environment. We’d been hearing about the Climate Crisis, pollution, dangers to our planet and all of its inhabitants. We loved the idea of solar energy but realized that it was not being utilized to a degree that would be sufficient to be a significant help in solving these problems.

21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• ‘Every child deserves to learn how to read’: Inside one Montana school district’s revamped literacy programs

  “We were digging deeply into our data annually and finding that we were continuing to make gains in mathematics but had some flat data on the reading side,” Superintendent Casey Bertram said.

Transportation

• NBC Nightly News – Are these roads the future of electric vehicle charging?

  Tech company tests roads for wireless charging

Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

• The Newsroom – A new app teaching people to trust the news again

  The app is hoping to counter fake news and disinformation with transparency, trust, and historical context