Category: Company Information
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Ice Arena Groundbreaking
By Evelyn Pyburn It’s a new era for ice hockey in Billings, Montana – in fact for all ice sports. With Signal Peak Energy’s $6 million donation, this past month, along with the addition of many other community donations, a groundbreaking ceremony was held last Wednesday to build a $12 million Signal Peak Energy Arena,…
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Cost of Child Care
Costs of child care was a significant issue during this session of the Legislature. Legislators addressed it with the passage of House Bill 456, which would allows all child care workers with children of their own eligible for state welfare assistance through the Best Beginnings program. Child care with a focus on early childhood education…
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The North American Fire Deficit
Roger Pielke Jr., from substack.com An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Reseachers find that large fires of recent decades in North America are not unprecedented:…
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2025 in Montana: Less Growth, Fewer People, More AI
Despite a high-performing job market, economic growth in Montana slowed in 2024, continuing a three year decline following the pandemic year boom of 2022, when the state had one of the fastest growing economies in the US, according to Jeffrey Michael, the new director of the Bureau of Business & Economic Research during its annual…
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Business Optimism Level Rises
The latest NFIB Small Business Optimism Index showed a big breakthrough in the attitudes Main Street entrepreneurs now have about the economy, rising in November to 101.7 from its 50-year average of 98, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). The mammoth change breaks a 34-consecutive-month drought below the half-century average. Remarkably, of…
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Billings Building Permits – November 1, 2024
Commercial Billings Clinic – Mitch Goplen |Jones Construction Inc, 2800 10th Ave N, Com Remodel, $3,472,000 Wl Zimmerman LLC, 3601 Avenue D, Com Footing/Foundation, $400,000 Don Grewell Ira|Donald A Grewel,l 4190 S Frontage Rd, Com New Warehouse/Storage, $250,000 Bill Co Investment LLC Inc|Fargo Roofing & Siding, 2020 Overland Ave, Com Fence/Roof/Siding, $248,228 Pelican Constance D…
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Biden-Harris Spent $900 million on Faulty COVID Messaging
By Casey Harper, The Center Square The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report a week ago, saying that the Biden-Harris Administration spent nearly a billion dollars promoting COVID-era messaging, much of which turned out to be untrue or misleading. The Congressional report examines the $900 million spent by the U.S. Department of…
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NFIB Survey: Business Owners Express Uncertainty
There was little optimism to be found in the most recent release of NFIB’s Small Business Economic Trends (SBET) report, but a whole lot of uncertainty, in fact, a record amount. NFIB’s Optimism Index, also known as the SBET, recorded its 33rd consecutive month below its 50-year average. The uncertainty index raised eyebrows, rising 11…
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More Restaurants Added To Popular Burger Trail
Burger fans traveling across Southeast Montana will now have more options to choose from, as the Southeast Montana Burger Trail announced it has added four new locations: On the Rocks in Worden, Stockman’s Club in Broadus, Six Gun Pizza in Forsyth and Mulligans Restaurant and Pub in Colstrip. Since the inception of the Southeast Montana…
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States Purge Polls
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Aug. 26 that more than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the state’s voter rolls in the past three years, including more than 6,500 noncitizens and 457,000 people who are dead. Of the 6,500 potential noncitizens removed from the voter rolls, about 1,930 have a voter history.…