“Try before you buy” is a classic sales maneuver: Car dealerships want you to test drive. Costco wants you to sample. Clothing stores want you to hit the dressing room. A state wants you to come live in the state and see if you want to stay forever.
Iceland has managed to reduce the number of teenagers for the past 20 years who regularly drink from 48 % to 5 %, and those who smoke 23 % to 3 %. What is your state doing?
According to the latest State of Missoula’s Workforce study commissioned by the Missoula Economic Partnership, the average hourly wage in Missoula rose from $24.12 last February to $26.75 this June.
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Grants are available for Montana Main Street member communities for comprehensive revitalization projects; this includes planning activities like a downtown master plan and project activities like seed money to implement a façade improvement program.
Currently, the city offers limited composting for lawn clippings during the summer. It’s considering taking on more organic material with an automated organics collection service.
A year ago, most business and economic leaders in Missoula hoped the economy would find its way back to pre-pandemic norms by now. But as the pandemic grinds on, there’s a new realization that things may never be the same, and it’s time to plan for an altered economic future.
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and international relations have disrupted people’s lives and created uncertainties about the future, Abdi said. In the talk, Abdi will share stories and examples from his own life that he hopes will inspire students and others to embrace uncertainty as a portal to new possibilities and to thrive on the unknown.
The Local Investment Opportunity Network (LION) of Port Townsend, Washington, was formed in 2006 with a simple premise: local relationships are the basis for local investments.
Working in a day care is a demanding job — but the pay is typically around just $12 an hour, and often without benefits. Many child-care workers have quit during the pandemic, leaving parents without options and struggling to return to work themselves.
According to the report’s findings, restoring the route would bring service to roughly 47 stops across seven states ranging from Washington to Illinois. The benefits to the counties served by the stops would aggregate to around $70 million annually and generate nearly $5 million in visitor spending.
It became a priority to have somewhere for our family to come and stay with us for comfortable amounts of time without being in a hotel. The ADU seemed like the perfect solution.”
“We’ve had people approach us from Bozeman say, ‘We’re going to move. We can’t afford to operate in Bozeman because our employees can’t afford housing,’” explained Markovich. “No doubt, of the big five communities in the state, Butte is simply the most affordable.”
Montana manufacturers are collaborating with local partners to bring Manufacturing Month activities back to their communities. Here are a few highlights from the first week.
Iceland has managed to reduce the number of teenagers for the past 20 years who regularly drink from 48 % to 5 %, and those who smoke 23 % to 3 %. What is your state doing?
A portion of the jail population is comprised of defendants awaiting trial due to a backlog in the state’s public defenders office. The hope is that getting defendants to trial more quickly will help reduce the crowding in the county jail, said Kevin Iffland, assistant city manager.
“Try before you buy” is a classic sales maneuver: Car dealerships want you to test drive. Costco wants you to sample. Clothing stores want you to hit the dressing room. A state wants you to come live in the state and see if you want to stay forever.
Lyft’s driverless experience will start and end with the app, as it does with traditional rides today, offering people a feeling of familiarity, said Lyft’s Ms. Kelman. “And what we found was that those touches of familiarity have been critical in helping people,” she said.
And she shares some exciting news: a breakthrough funding commitment from the Audacious Project that puts the project well on its way to realizing a billion-dollar plan to supercharge the transition to electric vehicles over the next five years.
Despite evidence that widening roadways is only a temporary solution to congestion, a decades-long inertia leads states to continue pushing expansion projects against local opposition.
