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Stockman Bank Makes Staff Announcements: Foran
Roshon Foran has recently joined Stockman Bank as a Real Estate Loan Officer at the Billings Grand location. Her responsibilities include assisting clients with their goal of becoming a homeowner or refinancing to consolidate debt, lower current monthly payments, or utilize their home as a tool for further investment in real estate. Foran brings over…
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Ready for Disaster
By Daniel Nordberg, SBA Regional Administrator It is a sobering fact that 25 percent of businesses that close because of a natural disaster never reopen. Small businesses can improve their chances of successful recovery by assessing their risks and developing a preparedness plan, and the U.S. Small Business Administration can help. Following a declared disaster,…
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Oil Field Innovations Change The World & Oil Industry
“You did that.” “We need to talk about it more,” said Blu Hulsey, Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs at Continental Resources. The accomplishments and technological development of the petroleum industry goes far too much unremarked upon, Hulsey told the audience at the Montana Petroleum Association’s Appreciation Luncheon at the DoubleTree in…
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New Construction Pushes Down Mill Levies
Property taxpayers will see lower county tax levies on their property tax bills this year, in Yellowstone County, because the overall amount of taxable value on property in the county has increased by $24.88 million. Over half of that increase is due to new construction – new wealth – in the county. Total tax…
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Montana Judge Will Hear Keystone Lawsuit Oct. 9
U.S. District Judge Brian Morris scheduled a hearing for Oct. 9 from environmental organizations suing to stop construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL Pipeline authorized under a new permit from the Trump administration. “Specifically, this permit reinforces, as should have been clear all along, that the Presidential permit is indeed an exercise of Presidential…
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Montana Highlights September 1 2019
Empire Petroleum Corp. of Tulsa paid $5.6 million for 184 stripper wells producing 375 BOEPD in a dozen Williston Basin counties covering leases on 20,700 acres. Much of the acreage is located near leases already owned by Empire. The assets were sold by EnergyQuest II LLC. Empire is financing the transaction through an existing senior…
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How to Cut Taxes
By Evelyn Pyburn If in no other way, the significance of the impact of drug abuse and the illegal trafficking of drugs, as well as related crimes, in Yellowstone County can be made clear by an evaluation of the budget for Yellowstone County. It would not be a stretch to conclude that as much as…
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Grant to Help Design Metra Park Border
Big Sky Economic Development (BSED) is applying for a CDBG Planning Grant from the Montana Department of Commerce to hire a professional consultant to create a concept play for the redevelopment of the MetraPark border with US Highway 87. A hearing date was set by the county commissioners last week to consider the application on…
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Federal Court Sends Illegal Water Rule Back to EPA
The Montana Farm Bureau announced that it is pleased with a federal court ruling that says the 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule is unlawful under the Clean Water Act because of its “vast expansion of jurisdiction over waters and land traditionally within the states’ regulatory authority.” The court for the Southern District…
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Fed President will Speak on Sept. 26
Do you have a question about how the Federal Reserve System affects you as a business professional, community leader, student or consumer? Wondering about economic disparities, regulating big banks, or the Fed’s recent interest rate decisions? On September 26, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari will discuss these topics and more in Billings at MSU-Billings’ Petro…