“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” 

Winston Churchill

June 6, 1944

“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. 

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. 

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph. 

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences of war. “

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Full Prayer

Come Home Montana

• Career Opportunities in Montana’s University System

  University of Montana seeking applicants for over 50 open positions  Explore what each school has to offer, its exact location in Montana, and how it benefits your situation. And then get started by submitting our free, simple Apply Montana application to begin your journey!

• Montana Career Opportunities – Executive Director Montana Empowerment Center, Executive Director Montana Natural History Center, and more… – Montana Nonprofit Community

  The resource for people seeking career opportunities  or those with opportunities to fill in the Montana Nonprofit Economy.

• Survey: More college grads want to work in government – Opportunities in Montana – City and State

  Perhaps surprising—but good news for government—is that students identified job stability as their top priority.

• Montana Career Opportunity – Chief Strategy Officer – AED

          Who We Are Advanced Electronic Designs, Inc. (AED) is an engineering product design and development firm located in Bozeman, Montana.

• State of Montana Career Opportunities

  Montana offers a variety of opportunities to help you make a difference in your community and further your career.

• Montana Stewardship Events – Get Outside and Do Some Real Good For the Land with Backcounty Hunters & Anglers This Summer

  Montana BHA believes in putting boots-on-the-ground to ensure public access and quality habitat for the critters we like to chase. Join us this summer to get your hands dirty, meet fellow BHA members and staff, and give back to your public lands and waters!

• Does your community have “Sit here if you’d like to have a conversation” benches?

  One of the worst epidemics in our society is loneliness.   These benches are a very simple early stage way to address this and help people feel like they’re not alone.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• USDA Invests $7.7 million in Meat Processing Facility for Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

  USDA Rural Development Montana State Director Kathleen Williams today announced the agency is awarding a $7.7 million grant to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to expand food processing opportunities on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

• Blackfoot Communications and C2M Beta Announce 2024 Spring Showcase Event – 6/18 – Missoula

  Blackfoot Communications and C2M Beta are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated 2024 Spring Showcase Event, scheduled to take place on June 18th at the ZACC downtown in Missoula, Montana. The doors will open at 4:30 PM MST, with the pitches from the entrepreneurs set to begin at 5:30 PM.

• Common economic myths, debunked

  Well, the truth isn’t so simple. Today on the show: economic mythbusting. We take three factoids about the American economy and run them through the fact checkers.

• View the agenda and register for the 2024 EDD Wealth Creation Summit: Building Equitable Regional Economies – 7/31 – 8/2 – Greenville, SC

  Network with peers to learn about doing economic development differently using the Wealth Creation framework. Panel sessions and training workshops will be offered on a range of topics, as well as a mobile workshop to the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

• President Biden’s Investing in America agenda helps thousands of small businesses access investment opportunities

  The Investing in America economic agenda has fueled a historic nationwide Small Business Boom, with the first, second, and third strongest years of new business applications on record occurring in President Biden’s first three years in office. New Census data shows that the United States has exceeded 17 million new business applications filed since 2021 – including 73,000 in Montana.

City of Bozeman Economic Development

• Bozeman joins state’s Montana Main Street Program

  Membership in the Main Street Program provides communities with access to Main Street grant funding, technical assistance, community networking, and resources offered through the national Main Street America program to revitalize and promote downtown commercial districts, the release stated.

Great Falls Development Alliance

• GFDA – Upcoming Trainings: SkillBridge Program, Business Financials, Government Contracting, and more!

  Whether you’re just getting started, looking for new customers, wanting to grow sales through e-commerce, or focusing on workforce. We’re here to help. Check out the upcoming trainings!

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• New Report: Neighborly Networks – Vermont’s Approach to Community Broadband

  In partnership with the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, today ILSR releases a new report examining how the state of Vermont is supercharging its telecommunications infrastructure efforts to reach the unconnected by puttings its weight behind community broadband-driven efforts.

Senator Jon Tester

• Tester Votes to Protect Montanans’ Freedom to Make Personal Health Care Decisions

  Senator is only member of Montana’s delegation to support the Right to Contraception Act to safeguard access to health care and contraceptives

Housing

• How the ‘Housing Trap’ Keeps Housing Unaffordable

  The financialization of housing uncouples housing prices from local supply and demand. Fixing this requires a new approach.

• Can Cohousing Solve the Housing Crisis and Loneliness Epidemic?

  This model is called cohousing: Residents own their private units, but share extensive common spaces. They commit to regular community activities, like meals, and manage the building together.

• A new American Dream? With home prices out of reach, ‘build-to-rent’ communities take off

  Build-to-rent communities have served senior populations for decades. In recent years, though, developers have targeted these projects for younger tenants who cannot afford to own yet but want to upgrade from apartments.

Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

• Medical Scientist Training Program launches at McLaughlin Research Institute

  In the video, Paul Sanchez reports on the Medical Scientist Training Program, a partnership between Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and the McLaughlin Research Institute

Incubators and R&D

• 100% of cancer patients cured long-term in ‘remarkable’ human trial

  While still in its early stages before clinical use, it’s already been hyped up as a ‘wonder drug’ for successful, non-invasive cancer treatment.

• Knee ‘plug’ simplifies surgery and recovery

  Damage to knee cartilage and bone can limit mobility and cause chronic pain. Now, researchers have developed an off-the-shelf synthetic ‘plug’ that heals the joint and could be an alternative to current treatments like total knee replacement surgery.

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

• DEQ recognizes 10 Montana schools for energy efficiency and waste reduction work

  SMART (which stands for “Saving Money and Resources Today”) Schools is a friendly competition to encourage Montana’s K-12 schools to integrate lessons and projects relating to resource conservation, efficiency and healthy schools into existing curricula.

2024 Montana Legislature and Politics

• Cities Are Switching to Electric Vehicles Faster Than Individuals

  Electric trucks and sedans have proven popular with municipal fleets, but cities have also bought niche vehicles such as an electric Zamboni

• The Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Quality Council MIGHT soon analyze climate impacts from energy projects in order to uphold Montanans’ constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment

  The work group’s task is to review how, and if, MEPA should be updated to clarify its role in both protecting the environment and permitting decisions, as well as to try to kickstart methods by which the DEQ can analyze greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts from projects while the Held v. Montana appeal is decided by the Montana Supreme Court this summer.

Government News & Events

• How Parking Reform Is Helping Transform American Cities

  In cities across the U.S., planners are pushing to eliminate mandates requiring parking spaces in new buildings. The reforms — along with banning street parking or adding meters — help to reduce car dependency, create public and green spaces, and lower housing costs.

Government Technology

• “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us” – A Traffic Engineer Hits Back at His Profession
  A new book argues that road design, not driver error, is largely responsible for the surge in US traffic deaths among pedestrians and bicyclists.

Transportation

• Viewpoint: Owning an EV is fun, clean and easy

  A lot of what we hear in the media about electric vehicles can be discouraging to anyone even considering buying one, and I had a lot of those concerns as well. Can you find places to charge them? Are they affordable? Do they just trade one environmental problem for another? Are they more dangerous to drive? I’ve found out that a lot of what we hear is exaggerated or just untrue.

• Electric Shuttle Buses, Wireless Charging, Autonomous Service: Next Steps In Support Transport

  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week awarded nearly $900 million in rebates to help more than 500 school districts buy about 3,400 clean school buses — 92% of them electric. Electric buses and electric shuttle buses have enjoyed fast-growing adoption in recent years due to their potential benefits in abating local emissions, improving fuel economy, and reducing oil dependence.

• Bike Index Combats E-Bike Theft & Assists Stolen Bike Recoveries With Its Free Registry

  With the free registry system at the non-profit Bike Index, bicycle and e-bike owners can get access to a potent tool for the potential recovery of their stolen bike.

• EV Battery Swapping Means Less Downtime For Fleets

  EV battery swapping has not caught on here in the US — at least, not yet. However, it is rapidly gaining traction elsewhere, one hotspot being China.

• This Bay Area county is eager to put autonomous vehicles on the road. Here’s why

  “It’s a very big opportunity and a very big necessity because as we get older, you can’t drive as well, and eventually it comes to a point where you can’t drive at all,” Byram said. “We need to find a way of enabling people who do not have access to a car because of mobility or sight problems to allow them to actually still live in an independent way and get around town in a convenient manner, and this is one step toward that.”

Energy and Climate Change

• New World Record: 33.24% Solar Cell Efficiency From JinkoSolar!

  To date, JinkoSolar has filed over 3,800 global patent applications and has been granted more than 3,500 patents, providing higher efficiency and better value energy solutions to the global solar photovoltaic market with ongoing technological breakthroughs.

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

• 20 Novel Ways To Improve Your ChatGPT Prompts (According To Science)

  These unconventional pointers will ensure you’re not missing out on that top tier of results.

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