MATR Newsletter – February 20, 2023
The state with the best education wins!

Come Home Montana

• New state data tool shows Missoula County adding 16K residents over next decade – Gallatin County is predicted to add 42,000

  The state website for the new population growth prediction tool also has lots of other features, like a visualization of how many vacant homes were in each county in the state as of 2020.

Five Valleys Archery Club

• Five Valleys Archery Club (Missoula, Montana) February Updates

  Check out what we’ve been up to and what’s in store for 2023!

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Economic Development Top 10 for 2-19-23

  Last September, I has the pleasure of visiting a very impressive economic development operation, the City of Hamilton, Ontario’s Economic Development Department. This sign is on their office wall. Their creative problem solving has helped transform Hamilton from a distressed industrial community into a vibrant manufacturing, education, tourism, tech, and entrepreneurial fast-growth city, a great inspiration for Great Falls!

Montana Business

• CBS Sunday Morning – A new model: Private equity and employee ownership – $$$
  All 800 workers at an Illinois factory received an average payout of about $175,000 when their company sold, because they had been made part-owners. It’s part of a new business model to tackle wealth inequality, and it’s coming from an unlikely force: private equity, which has long had a reputation for layoffs and cost-cutting.
• Economists Predict Zero Growth in Montana in 2023

  Experts at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research say industries remain stable but little growth is expected in the coming years, even as the record number of new residents bring in high-income earnings

Housing

• LA has an ambitious plan to end homelessness and clear tent cities. Will it work?

  Momentum for clearing city streets of unhoused people has been building nationwide. Portland, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and the state of Missouri are among the high-profile places banning or reducing tent encampments in recent months.

Funding and Building your Business

• Disney employees fight mandate to work at offices four days a week

  A petition asking CEO Bob Iger to rethink the policy has more than 2,300 signatures

• The 20 best tools for starting your own business – The 11 best websites

  When it comes to starting your own business, having the right tools can make the difference between success and failure.

Idaho News & Events

• Feds betting billions on ‘new’ nuclear technologies – Idaho National Laboratory

  On a subzero December morning, the future of nuclear energy was lying on a plywood platform in a cinder-block building tucked inside a remote, heavily secured corner of the Idaho National Laboratory.

Government News & Events

• Tesla Model Y Expected to Save Police Dept. $83,810

  The goal of purchasing the Model Y was to “save taxpayers money and eliminate idle waste/cost,” according to Somerset Police Chief Joel J. Trepczyk.

• Colorado Doubles Down on E-Bike Incentives After Early Successes

  New incentives — like the ones offered in Denver — are promising to advance the adoption of e-bikes and are fueling calls for the devices to be seen as essential parts of the evolving transportation ecosystem.

Careers

• 4 Smart & Simple Tips for a Friendlier Job Interview – Magnetic – Get the Job You Want

  I help job seekers win their interviews so they land more and better offers

Transportation

• Sonnen & TenneT Power German Grid With Electric Cars

  “We are on the verge of developing a renewable energy ecosystem that can be compared to the dawn of the internet age.”

Energy and Climate Change

• Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America’s Oil-Rich Frontier

  In Alaska, people are flocking to buy electric appliances instead of fuel-guzzling furnaces, as oil prices soar and temperatures plummet.

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

• Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army

  What was once the realm of speculation is now being shipped from Boston Dynamics’ factories on a weekly basis. All the while, the robots move ever closer in the resemblance of their human creators.

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