MATR Newsletter – November 4, 2022
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Come Home Montana

• Montana, Washington and Remote Career Opportunities – Customer Success Operations Analyst, Enterprise Account Executive – Senior Product Manager – Giving & Matching, State & Government, Senior Analytics Engineer – Submittable

  We were founded in Missoula (yes, that’s in Montana). We’ve expanded to Bellevue. And we’re supported by employees throughout the U.S. Always looking for motivated, talented humans to join our…

Northwestern Energy

• The Northwest Power Pool

  The Northwest Power Pool is a corporation based in Portland that helps its members, which are electric utilities that own generating plants and sell power throughout the Northwest and Western Canada, achieve the maximum benefits from coordinating the operations of their power plants.

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Montana Development Authority Releases Bioscience Economic Development Strategy

  This afternoon we are pleased to release the Bioscience Economic Development Strategy for the Great Falls Montana region. The report, prepared by Tripp Umbach with the input and assistance of key local industry partners, details four key findings and four strategic actions to grow and diversify bioscience-related industries in Great Falls.

Montana Business

• Albertsons wants to issue a $4 billion ‘special dividend.’ Critics call it ‘looting.’

  The parent of Albertsons and Safeway says it’s rewarding shareholders. Critics see a case of private equity managers enriching themselves while eviscerating a company.

• The Gas Station’s Hidden Battle to Survive

  Electric vehicles are changing the way Americans fuel up. Will it mean the end of the gas station?

• USDA gives $73 million to create, expand smaller livestock processors

  Montana nabs money to establish meat-processing facility

• Missoula-based Submittable launches new platform to simplify corporate giving – Career Opportunities

  In its announcement, Submittable said the Give platform creates a simpler way to donate. It replaces forms, spreadsheets and direct payments with a clean interface that integrates with accounting and payroll systems for easy one-time or ongoing deductions.

Housing

• This startup will replace old, rundown homes with ones that generate more energy than they use

  Housing is responsible for a huge chunk of global carbon emissions—nearly a quarter of it, by one estimate. That’s one of the reasons that the new startup Aro Homes exists: Every house it builds will have net-zero energy use. The houses are also designed to cut water use in half and shrink the amount of time needed for construction.

Visit Montana

• The 15 Best Montana Vacations to Take in 2023

  Plan your next getaway to one of these scenic locales or combine several itineraries to create your own amazing Montana vacation.

Funding and Building your Business

• When It Comes to Data, Sometimes Less Is More

  When it comes to actually making decisions with data, oftentimes “less is more.”

• The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech

  Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

The Creative and Cultural Economy

• Gear library looks to break down barriers for Montana hunters

  Missoula women start service that allows new hunters to borrow equipment and ‘feel really welcome in the space.’

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

• UM wild sustenance course teaches hunting and conservation through real-world experience

  Students were taught about female engagement in the male dominated sport, how hunting and conservation go hand-in-hand and indigenous views on hunting. But the highlight of the class for most students was outside of the classroom.

• Carroll College announces plans for graduate physician assistant program

  Cech said Carroll now has approval to start the multi-year process of getting accreditation for the 27-month program. Leaders hope to bring on a founding director by 2023. The first cohort of 34 students would start classes in fall 2025 and graduate by December 2027.

South Dakota News & Events

• Voters Have Expanded Medicaid in 6 States. Is South Dakota Next?

  On November 8 South Dakotans will vote whether to approve Amendment D, requiring the state’s Medicaid program to cover adults aged 18-64 with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

Transportation

• What happens to stolen catalytic converters? A look inside one $38 million California crime ring

  Metal recyclers accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar, cross-country crime ring grew so successful trading catalytic converters that had been sawed from vehicles that they had a specialized phone app providing real-time prices for the stolen precious metals.

Energy and Climate Change

• The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism – Global warming cannot be limited to 1.5°C

  The same countries that piously signed the Paris agreement have not cut their emissions enough to meet its targets; in fact global emissions are still growing.

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