“On one hand, he’s rubbing our back, but on the other hand, he’s punching us in the stomach,” wrote Fort Peck Executive Board member Jestin Dupree.
Long Streets Project
Montana is the oldest state in the West. Demographics tell the tale.
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Who’s the grayest of them all? Among western states, it’s Montana
Long Streets Project
It can be tough to find fresh food in small towns. It gets harder when you lose your county’s only grocery store.
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Where do rural communities turn for fresh food when their only grocery store goes up in flames?
Long Streets Project
Where born and bred Montanans do, and don’t, live
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Montanans prize birthright, but less than half of us were born here.
Economy
Bullock stresses tech disruption and workforce training at national governors conference
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Bullock urges governors: help workers face changing economy.
Long Streets Project
Few state job creation grants go to rural Montana. Here’s why.
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As Montana’s urban centers add jobs faster than small towns, dollars from a key state economic development program flow disproportionately to cities.
Long Streets Project
Kansas and Vermont pay college grads to move to small towns. Montana could follow suit.
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A Montana bill, modeled after programs in Kansas and Vermont, would offer grants to young professionals who commit to living and working in rural communities
broadband
Telecom companies pitch tax break to boost rural Montana internet access
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Telecom companies say property taxes are a drag on their ability to expand broadband internet in rural areas. A bill in the Legislature aims to give them break.
2019 Legislature
Affordable housing advocates look to Montana Legislature for help
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HELENA – There are plenty of infrastructure priorities jockeying for scarce state dollars as the Montana Legislature meets this winter, but, with housing costs a burden for many modest-income Montanans, advocates and some lawmakers want to spend state money boosting affordable housing projects. A trio of bills endorsed by a committee of legislators who studied housing and local government issues between the 2017 and 2019 legislative sessions — House Bill 16, Senate Bill 15, and Senate Bill 18 — are designed to make that happen.