As part of the Governor’s Main Street Montana Rural Partners project, we reached out to communities to compile success stories and start a dialogue surrounding best practices across various subjects.
“An effort like this has not been conducted on this grassroots level for nearly 20 years. In the face of such great change and future economic opportunities and challenges, Montana needs to do its homework and consider anew what tools and strategies are needed to maximize economic future. Let’s get this work done and then let’s have the conversation about strengthening each of our communities.” Steve Arveschoug, MEDA President and Todd O’Hair, Montana Chamber
The Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Missoula is the leader of the organization, leveraging the power of relationships and networks across private, public and corporate sectors of Missoula County.
The project, known as Nursing Counts for Montana, aims to ensure that every person living in Montana is accounted for in the census, which happens only once every decade.
Montana needs to do its homework and consider anew what tools and strategies are needed to maximize economic future. Let’s get this work done and then let’s have the conversation about strengthening each of our communities.” Steve Arveschoug, MEDA President and Todd O’Hair, Montana Chamber
Gov. Steve Bullock told members of the Montana Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday to focus on Montana’s energy future to ensure it goes down a path led by Montanans.
All companies must be independent (un-acquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.
Two ways to shorten meetings are to make the agenda a list of questions to be answered and to gather outside of a conference room, writes Steven Rogelberg.
“We want everyone to participate. We sent the survey to all of our high school students. We want parents, we want community members, whether they have students in the schools or not. They really care about high quality education. So, we think people want to tell us their ideas.” Hatton Littman
Missoula High School robotics team gears up for this year’s competition! The team is primarily funded through donations. Please consider supporting them and local STEM education by donating to their GoFundMe page.
New technologies can move the focus from cleaning up problems to preventing them, while putting taxpayer money to more efficient use. But governments lag the private sector in employing these evolving tools.
MDS is a set of data specifications and data sharing requirements that force mobility companies to report basic data on the location and use of their equipment.
In a world where ride-hailing companies are now incentivizing people to give up their cars and rethink transportation as a service rather than a piece of hardware, we will only need a couple manufacturers to make fleets of urban taxibots.
“Autonomous connected vehicles of any type are where transportation is headed. We want to bring these kinds of opportunities to make sure that we’re economically competitive.” North Carolina Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon
