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MATR Newsletter – October 17, 2022
The state with the best education wins!




A New Playbook Looks To Help Rural Communities Utilize Opportunity Zones

The blueprint provides a six-step process to attract capital to rural communities.

Workforce scarcity continues to hamper Missoula, Montana businesses, pushing some ‘to the brink.’

“We’re just pushing things to the brink,” Engel said. “I’ve been doing this for 35 years, and I’ve never had it be this hard.”



Credit Suisse Predicts Renewable Energy That Is “Too Cheap To Meter” By 2025

Credit Suisse says the Inflation Reduction Act will have such a tremendous impact on renewable energy that the US may see the levelized cost of electricity from renewable sources fall to less than 1 cent per kWh hour by 2025 after factoring in all tax and production credits.


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Come Home Montana

Big Sky Economic Development

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

Senator Jon Tester

Montana Economic Development

Housing

Opportunity Zones

Montana Business

Visit Montana

  • University of Montana researchers aim to make hunting regs approachable

    The reams of rules each state produces — Montana’s 2022 deer, elk and antelope book alone clocks in at 143 pages — could pose a barrier to prospective hunters, or could lead to well-intended hunters inadvertently violating a regulation, the researchers stated in a UM news release.

The Creative and Cultural Economy

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

2023 Montana Legislature and Politics

  • Arlyne Reichert reflects on Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention

    What would happen is, you would go to Helena, and go to the committee meeting. They would be very nice. You would sit in and listen. When it came time to vote, the Legislative Chair would say, ‘sorry, everyone out of the room. Executive session.’ That meant we need secrecy, we need privacy, and they vote, and we never knew how they were voting.

Transportation

Energy and Climate Change

Privacy, Hacking and Virus Alerts



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