MATR Newsletter – October 13, 2021
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Come Home Montana

• A Celebration of Missoula, Montana at the End of “Maid” on Netflix

  After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

• Montana Career Opportunity – Loan Officer – Bear Paw Development Corporation of Northern Montana

  The Loan Officer is responsible for assisting the Director of Loan Services in working with potential borrowers to obtain business financing. The Loan Officer will also work closely with the…

Eventgroove

• All-In-One Fundraising FAQs – Eventgroove

  You may be asking…how can I customize my campaign? We’ve got you covered. These articles will answer some popular questions about all-in-one fundraising and ensure you have the information you need to create your ideal fundraising campaign!

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Economic Development Top 10 for 10-12-21

  Here is our Top 10 for last week celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen the Great Falls regional economy — Montana’s Golden Triangle. And, sharing business resources and skill-building opportunities to empower your success.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• Another Global Pandemic Is Spreading—Among Pigs

  African swine fever killed half the pigs in China. There is no vaccine and no treatment. Now it’s in the Caribbean and on the doorstep of the US.

• Whitefish Workforce Housing Project to Form Co-op With Guidance from The Montana Cooperative Development Center (MCDC)

  Residents and local employers make headway with long-term solution for employee housing

• Program Helps New Farmers Find ‘Entrepreneurial Edge’ – Value added: Meat program helps Missoula students learn to raise, butcher, sell

  The National Farmers Union offers a free, year-long training program to help new farmers learn the business side of agriculture.

The Telecommuting and Gig Workforce in Montana

• NASCIO Survey Finds Government Remote Work Here to Stay

  Most state CIOs expect remote work to continue and for digital services to keep proliferating. That introduces a host of shifting priorities, including a renewed need for cybersecurity enhancements and identity tools.

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• Helena, Montana ordinance would charge telecom companies looking to expand

  Last week, the city commission approved first passage of an ordinance to charge fees for cable and telecom franchises to cover the cost of reviewing their applications. Helena has received inquiries in the last six months about companies possibly expanding telecom service, including installing fiber optics, according to commission documents.

• A Systems Approach to Scaling Rural Co-op Efforts to Expand the Fiber Edge

  The deployment in Turney will combine multiple wireless technologies into a single architecture using Radio Frequency (RF)-over-Fiber technology.

Housing

• This Silicon Valley county is trying to end a ‘hidden epidemic’ of homeless families. Will it work?

  By 2025, the “Heading Home” program seeks to functionally end family homelessness in the county, meaning that more families are entering housing than falling into homelessness.

• Why the U.S. Housing Boom Isn’t a Bubble

  Wharton’s Benjamin Keys talks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about why the red-hot U.S. real estate market isn’t a bubble that’s ready to burst.

• Bozeman, Montana putting future of affordable housing funds to voters

  If approved, the community housing levy would allow city commissioners to levy up to seven mills annually, which would cost the owner of a $364,000 home almost $34 annually could raise $9.5 million over ten years.

Montana Business

• The Butte Team “59701 Nano Innovations” has been selected as a winner in Stage ! of the DOE NREL CABLE Prize Competition and will participate in the following stages with an opportunity to win a share of the $4 Million Dollar Prize.

  The Team is developing a more conductive material for electrical applications based on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene embedded into Copper metal.

Visit Montana

• Nick Offerman extols the virtue of the great outdoors amid the pandemic

  Offerman had the general overview of the book laid out for years, inspired by the writings of his favorite agrarians. He’d also already visited Glacier National Park for a week with famous friends Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders, an adventure that readers will find out all about in the book.

Regional Business News

• Meet the Entrepreneurs Shaping the Future of This $5 Trillion Industry – High-Rise Urban Farming

  20 Thousand Tons of Tomatoes from one facility per year.

Government Technology

• How Cities Can Plan For the Rise of Autonomous Vehicles

  When cars first started proliferating on American roads, it led to increased sprawl and flight from central cities. What can we do now to prevent the same problem as AVs become more widespread?

Careers

• How to master the most important skill you need as a freelancer

  No matter what type of freelance work you’re doing, you need to excel at this.

South Dakota News & Events

• Breaking the chain of poverty: Indigenous tribe goes self-sufficient – Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation
  “Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation started from a prayer. It was from a group of young people that were restless for change, that were reconnecting to our Lakota lifeways, to our songs and ceremonies,” Means said.

Transportation

• Plug-in cars are the future. The grid isn’t ready.

  “The grid of the future isn’t going to be a grid at all,” said Shuli Goodman, executive director of a Linux Foundation project called LF Energy. “It will be more like the Internet,” she said, with power generation happening all over the place.

• Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How Berkeley Is De-Policing Traffic Enforcement

  The headline “Routine Traffic Stop Turns Deadly” is all too common in this country.

• What’s a STROAD and Why Does It Matter?

  They are enormously expensive to build and, ultimately, financially unproductive. They’re also very dangerous. This video (revamped from an older version) explains the problem with stroads and how to solve it:

• With Subscriptions, Automakers Mimic Netflix’s Playbook

  GM thinks consumers might pay $135 a month for emergency assistance, enhanced maps, and software-enabled upgrades that boost acceleration.

Privacy, Hacking and Virus Alerts

• The Emergence of Killware, the Lethal Malware

  For some time, we have been at the beginning of an era in which this risk includes loss of life.

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