MATR Newsletter – May 11, 2022
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Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunity – Customer Support Specialist – Eventgroove

  Looking for more than an average customer service job? One with a growing, global software company (you’ll gain technical knowledge!) that presents interesting challenges each day (you’ll never be bored!)…

• Montana Career Opportunity – Operations Administrative Assistant – Mission West Community Development Partners

  MISSION WEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS (MWCDP) POSITION DESCRIPTION   CLASS TITLE:  Operations Administrative Assistant REPORTS TO:  Administration Operations Manager FSLA STATUS: Full Time/Non-Exempt   SUMMARY:  Reporting to the Manager of…

• Montana Career Opportunity – Loan Department Manager – Mission West Community Development Partners

  MISSION WEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS) (MWCDP) JOB DESCRIPTION Summary   Position:                     Loan Department Manager   Classification:             Full-Time, Non-Exempt Reports to:                  Director of Business Development Salary…

• Montana Career Opportunities – Glacier’s Sperry Chalet feels staffing crunch

  Employment Opportunities We operate Sperry Chalet with a crew of eight to nine people; cook’s, baker’s, waitpeople, housekeepers, dishwashers, etc., who live and work at Sperry Chalet for the entire…

Northwestern Energy

• Judge strikes pre-approval statute for a utility-scale battery project that bestowed ‘exclusive and lucrative financial benefit only on NorthWestern’

  The ruling could put Montana’s first utility-scale battery project in jeopardy.

Great Falls Development Authority

• Coming up: SAM training, Accelerate Your Startup, QuickBooks, Boots to Business and more! – GFDA

  Check out the upcoming trainings

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• Montana child care providers, families, demonstrate for equity, better pay

  “If we don’t have child care, then they can’t contribute to our community and to our economy,”

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• New provider will offer internet, TV service to Missoula, Lolo areas

  A new internet service called is headed to Missoula and Lolo. TDS Telecom will connect over 3,500 homes and businesses in the Missoula area with speeds up to 2 gigabytes. It will also offer digital TV services and phone packages.

Montana Business

• TED Talk – How do we heal medicine?

  Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine — with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.

Montana Manufacturing Extension Center

• May 2022 Montana Manufacturing News

  Taking a Bigger Bite Out of the Snack Food Market:
  Manufacturer and MMEC Collaborate on Sustainable Growth Initiatives

Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

• Self confidence is a super power – Code Girls United’s 2022 NW Regional App Challenge Winners – Teams of girls in fourth through eighth grade

  NW Regional App Challenge Winners: Wild Mustangs, Coding Cats, Count on Coding –

Idaho News & Events

• Idaho Power Announces Plans for State’s First Large-scale Battery Storage Projects

  The company has filed a request with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to affirm that the proposal is in the public interest.

University Business Plan Competitions

• MSU student ventures take top awards at third annual MSU $50K Venture Competition

  The event featured 10 finalists in traditional and social venture categories, all of whom had connections to MSU or the University of Montana as students, faculty, staff or alumni. The event was hosted by the MSU Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship and the MSU Blackstone LaunchPad.

Government News & Events

• How Urban Sprawl Came To Dominate U.S. Cities—And How To Change That

  The auto-centric development patterns of American cities are a result of decades of misguided, but reversible, policy decisions.

• Salt-loaded BioBullets kill zebra mussels by passing as food – The Montana Invasive Species Council (MISC)

  Invasive freshwater zebra mussels are a problem in many regions, clogging structures such as water intake and water treatment pipes as they rapidly reproduce. A new technology could help, by getting them to eat “eco-friendly” poison disguised as food.

City Club Missoula

• City Club returns to in person luncheons at the Double Tree on June 13! “Living With Grizzly Bears”

  City Club Missoula Presents: Living With Grizzly Bears Date : Jun 13 2022 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Location : DoubleTree Edgewater Missoula — **FORUM HELD IN PERSON!** The Missoula…

• City Club Missoula – Tourism promoters now searching for solutions to tourist crowding – City Club returns to in person luncheons at the Double Tree in June! Reserve your seat now.

  On Monday, City Club Missoula hosted a panel discussion on “Destination Stewardship: How can we keep from “loving Montana to death?” The four guests – all of whom are associated with the tourism industry – said the sudden growth in the numbers of tourists coming to Montana have them scrambling to try to figure out what to do.

Transportation

• Amtrak restores daily service across Montana’s Hi-Line

  The Empire Builder runs between Chicago and the Northwest, with stops in Montana towns like Shelby and Whitefish.

• STEAL THIS IDEA: Canadian City Passes Next-Gen Parking Reform

  A small Canadian city just passed a package of progressive bike and car parking reforms rarely seen in a single North American community, and the policymakers behind it hope it will serve as a model for other micro-metros in the U.S.

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