“Understanding how our country’s small communities were doing before the pandemic is critical for navigating the economic recovery ahead,” said Ross DeVol, president and CEO of Heartland Forward.
“We’re in the business of trying to train a skilled workforce to support manufacturing initiatives here in the valley,” said Dan Leatzow, a professor of Advanced Manufacturing.
“The thing that tends to get the most headlines is our business attraction work,” said Grant Kier. “But the truth is, the vast majority of our work is helping those companies that are already here.”
I was talking with my neighbor Nicholas Franczyk about watching parapenters yesterday, and Nick told me he had made a movie about the history of Missoula hang-gliding. I just watched it, and it’s great. I also learned that for a while hang gliding from mt. sentinel was shut down, and Nick’s movie helped bring it…
They can play a larger role in rebuilding economies, breathing life into broken communities and enhancing diversity. Providing 14 years of free public education is an idea that deserves a closer look.
Republican U.S. Senator Steve Daines and his Democratic challenger Governor Steve Bullock engaged in one crackling exchange after another Saturday, in their third and final debate that reflected the high stakes of one of the nation’s top U.S. Senate races.
City Club Missoula on Monday, October 19 (11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. via Zoom) will feature a debate between the two candidates for the District 4 seat on the PSC (representing Lincoln, Sanders, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Granite and Ravalli counties). Come learn about the PSC’s functions and the candidates’ stands on the issues facing the commission.
The year was 1999: Cher’s “Believe” was blasting on pop radio stations, Bill Clinton was impeached, Jar Jar Binks hit the Big Screen, and the beep, beep, static of dial-up internet echoed in family rooms across the globe.
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