MATR Newsletter – September 16, 2019
The state with the best education wins!

Even if we disagree, we can still be kind to each other.

Printing For Less

• PFL Presents The Future of MarTech – 9/17 – Online

  The Technology Doesn’t Matter: Why The Future Of Marketing Is All About Customer Experience

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Economic Development Top Ten for 9-15-19

  We are growing and have three additional new positions to expand our team, including Commercial Loan Processor and Operations Assistant, Rural SBDC Business Advisor, and Talent Attraction Director.

Kalispell Chamber of Commerce

• Kalispell Chamber to Highlight Manufacturing Workforce Development – 9/19

  From timber to medical manufacturing, Kalispell Chamber of Commerce President Joe Unterreiner says the Flathead historically has a high concentration of manufacturing businesses.

TechLink

• TechLink weekly tech roundup: new medical technology edition

  All of these featured technologies are available to entrepreneurs and businesses via a license agreement so they can be introduced into the commercial market and used in the medical community.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• Travel conference TBEX brings promise of tourism, exposure for Billings

  An estimated 500 attendees joined in the Billings event, featuring “pre-BEX” tours that included excursions to Little Big Horn Battlefield, the Beartooth Highway, Bighorn Canyon, and Pompeys Pillar, among other trips closer to home including a brewery tour and downtown arts and cultural tour.

• SBA awards Montana nearly $500k trade grant

  The SBA’s STEP partners not only help entrepreneurs increase and diversify their customer base; they also help to create and retain local jobs.

• The 3rd Annual Montana Food Show -9/27 – Bozeman

  This tradeshow connects buyers, producers and the public with over 50 MT fresh produce, meat, food & beverage companies to find ways to get more local food on MT plates!

• Rethinking childcare with MyVillage’s Erica Mackey and Elke Govertsen – A New Angle Podcast

  This week we learn all about a market that very likely befuddles many of you – childcare.

• 5 ways cities can drive sustainable innovation

  For cities to be digital and equitable, we need to shift from disruptive to inclusive innovation — but the disruptive model seems to still be the baseline.

Montana Businesses For Sale

• Montana’s Holland Lake Lodge relisted at $3.49M

  “It’s re-listed at a lower price point,” Durham said. “I’d love to see it go to someone in the local area.”

Montana Business

• Life after death in Montana’s Swan Valley

  The Meyers turned their 120 acres in Montana into a natural cemetery, where bodies can be buried with as few frills as possible.

Funding and Building your Business

• Small-town startups have a hiring advantage

  To be successful, you have to keep a hook in the water and always be hiring.

• What to Say When Your Employee Makes a Mistake

  Emotional courage is the willingness to tolerate all feelings.

• To Run a Successful Business, All You Need Is Love – Love Is Just Damn Good Business

  Motivational speaker and author Steve Farber may be onto something.

Come Home Idaho

• As Boise booms, a city faces the curse of ‘Californication’

  In the fast-growing Idaho city, residents grapple with challenges of growth and new arrivals

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

• CBS Sunday Morning – How we have failed our teachers

  “If we’re not willing to put more dollars into the classroom, if we’re not willing to invest in the people that are going to be at the front of those classrooms either, then what is left for public education?”

• New STEM wing at Missoula’s Sentinel High School a ’21st-century classroom’

  The STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) wing will host classes in engineering, architecture, computer science and business and will be the home of after-school programs like the robotics club.

STARS Montana Early Education Program

• Senator Tester Secures More Than $1 Million for Ft. Belknap Early Head Start

  Early Head Start – Child Care Partnerships help ensure parents who work at all hours can access childcare

Government News & Events

• The City That’s Giving People Money

  Randomly selected residents are receiving $500 a month. The experiment might prove that guaranteed income works.

Transportation

• Is transit ridership loss inevitable? A U.S.–France comparison

  Shifting people out of cars and into transit is an essential strategy for cities hoping to reduce pollution, combat climate change, and improve the vitality of their neighborhoods. The U.S. strategy, as this comparison shows, hasn’t worked.

• Owner Says His Tesla Was Upgraded To ‘Full Self-Driving’ Computer During HEPA Filter Replacement

  It’s probably still years away, but also probably not many years, if the millions being poured into the effort are any indication.

Cool Stuff That’s Coming

• First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed

  In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.

Energy and Climate Change

• What It’s Like Living in One of the Hottest Cities on Earth—Where It May Soon Be Uninhabitable

  “Climate change. It’s the problem of our area. Gradually the temperatures are rising, and next year it will increase even more.”

• Carbon County, Montana officials approve $406M wind farm project

  The 114-turbine farm will connect with an existing Pacificorp 230-kilovolt transmission line in Park County, Wyoming. The turbines will reach about 454 feet tall at the high point of the blades.

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