MATR Newsletter – November 29, 2021
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Come Home Montana

• Butte, America: The ups and downs of the Richest Hill on Earth

  “Butte is different from all the cities of the world. There is only one Butte – there will never be another. Those who know her love her and wouldn’t trade her for the most beautiful city on earth.”

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Montana Trade Area Growth Highlights

  Home to one of the 5 most extraordinary bars in the world (Artful Living)

Montana West Economic Development

• Montana West Economic Development is launching a new cohort of PeerSpectives, a unique business development initiative.

  PeerSpectives is a roundtable system designed especially for leaders of second-stage companies.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• “The New Map of Life” The 100-year life is here. We’re not ready.

  We can meet challenges that longevity creates if we act now, guided by these principles:

Senator Jon Tester

• Senator Tester says small communities should “reach out” and start planning infrastructure projects

  “This money is going to flow through traditional mechanisms they’ve been using forever. So, I would get in contact with the folks with the Revolving Water Fund if you’ve got sewer and water needs. I’d get in contact with the Montana Department of Transportation if you’ve got highway and bridge needs. And just go down the list. And the end results going to be pretty good projects. And the reason is because this bill’s going to be over five years.” – Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)

Housing

• Housing crunch means Montana hospitals can’t find, keep workers

  Housing was the most-cited issue hospitals said made it hard to recruit new employees. Other responses captured in the survey feel like being captured in an echo chamber for anyone who’s tried to rent or purchase a home in the last year:

Montana Business

• The MAVEN Project provides specialty medical care from retired physicians to undeserved communities – Why not in your state?

  MAVEN aims to provide retired physicians with a way to continue using their medical expertise in meaningful ways, while also helping community health clinics connect with medical specialists.

• Lee Enterprises, owner of the Missoulian and Roanoke Times, adopts ‘poison pill’ as it weighs Alden offer

  Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises’ plan would kick in if Alden gets control of 10% or more of Lee’s stock in the next year.

Funding and Building your Business

• Faire: empowering local entrepreneurs by simplifying the wholesale buying process – ‘not on Amazon’

  ‘Open with Faire’ allows aspiring shopkeepers to apply for up to $20,000 in Faire credit to purchase inventory.

• Local News Outlets Could Reap $1.7 Billion in Build Back Better Aid

  The measure would allow newspapers, digital news outlets and radio and television stations to claim a tax credit of $25,000 the first year and $15,000 the next four years for up to 1,500 journalists.

Wyoming Business

• Wyoming Governor Gordon to use $27 million in relief money to sponsor the first year of the Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP)

  The Wyoming Innovation Partnership will focus on growing technology and entrepreneurship programs with the ultimate goal of diversifying Wyoming’s workforce and attracting new businesses.

Energy and Climate Change

• Today’s TED Talk – Dear world leaders, these are our climate demands

  Investing in green energy, holding large corporations accountable for their pollution, stopping pipeline and oil extraction initiatives — these are non-negotiable actions to protect the planet, but they are still just the bare minimum, say climate activists Xiye Bastida and Shiv Soin. In conversation with radio researcher Latif Nasser, Bastida and Soin share their list of six crucial climate demands for world leaders — and discuss how we all can get involved.

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