By visiting businesses in each of Montana’s 56 counties this week, my goal is to highlight and encourage small business owners while also challenging Montanans to make a point of shopping small and supporting local this holiday season.”
Well folks, it’s been quite the year. And though 2020 is soon coming to a close, the fight to hold folks accountable in Washington and deliver for Montana families is far from over—and I want to hear from you.
Tester: “Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and make sure these resources are deployed quickly and effectively, and ensure no Montanan is left behind.”
In its RDOF awards announcement, the FCC said 99.7 percent of locations assigned to awardees “will be receiving broadband with speeds of at least 100/20 Mbps, with an overwhelming majority (over 85 percent) getting gigabit-speed broadband.”
Rep. Derek Skees, R-Kalispell, chair of the House Rules Committee, came down strongly against any effort to hold the session entirely remotely. Skees claimed the state is heading towards herd immunity.
The federal government’s approach to rural policy is a crazy quilt of more than 400 programs and 14 legislative committees. Could we do better by rural America if we looked at the big picture?
In its RDOF awards announcement, the FCC said 99.7 percent of locations assigned to awardees “will be receiving broadband with speeds of at least 100/20 Mbps, with an overwhelming majority (over 85 percent) getting gigabit-speed broadband.”
Tester: “Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and make sure these resources are deployed quickly and effectively, and ensure no Montanan is left behind.”
Well folks, it’s been quite the year. And though 2020 is soon coming to a close, the fight to hold folks accountable in Washington and deliver for Montana families is far from over—and I want to hear from you.
Under the pending rule change, members of the committee could still vote to overrule the chair and force a hearing on a bill — but that would require the unlikely scenario of Republicans, who control large majorities on all committees, of going against their own Republican chair.
Republican Gov. elect Greg Gianforte signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge to oppose and veto any and all efforts to raise taxes. Nonetheless, he indicates willingness weigh in tax proposals from the Legislature.
Despite pledges to protect public resources, administrative changes under Gov.-elect Gianforte and draft bills from GOP lawmakers have put some sportsmen on edge
During 2018, the Montana Highway Patrol started using drones and photogrammetry software to examine crash scenes. Officers say the tech has dramatically increased efficiency, safety and accuracy.
“I had reservations, but the staff involved at reviewing new software, both users and IT folks, vetted the software themselves and with other communities. It is frustrating to all involved that once purchased, the conversion goes poorly or the software doesn’t do what they said it would. After we sign on the dotted line, it is tough to reverse because the commitment to the software is made,” Doyon said in an email to The Electric.
The most talented people in the world are always a work in progress. They leverage critical feedback from others and don’t get defensive when they get it.
Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove it.
The solar-roadway project was undertaken in partnership with The Ray, an organization that uses an 18-mile stretch of Georgia highway as a proving ground technologies related to safety and emissions reductions. The Ray has already tested the materials to be installed on a portion of its highway.
