Last week Senator Steve Daines visited India to help trade talks and in October the state officially opened the Montana Asia Trade Office in Taipei Taiwan. Montana World Trade Center Executive Director Brigita Miranda Freer thinks they are important and said so recently on Voices of Montana. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads...
Montana Schools Receive Over $45 Million From DNRC
At Monday’s Land Board meeting Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen accepted $47.7 million from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation on behalf of public schools. This year’s check is an increase of $6 million from last year and works out to about $327 per student in the state’s public schools. https://nort...
State Vaccination Numbers Now Include Children Aged 5-11
The state COVID-19 vaccine dashboard has been updated to reflect the addition of the newly added 5 to 11-year-old age group now eligible to be vaccinated. As a result the eligible population of Montanans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has been updated to 50%. In addition the county percentages on the map have been adjusted. The total number...
Senator Tester Shares Expectations For Reconciliation Bill
With the $1 trillion plus infrastructure package signed into law the focus in Congress now moves to the nearly $2 trillion reconciliation bill on social spending that is still being negotiated. Senator Jon Tester recently commented on what he hopes will ultimately come out of this bill if it too becomes law of the land. https://northernbroadca...
Legislative Committee Begins Child Mental Health Service Study
Several of the state’s largest providers told members of the Children Families Health and Human Services Interim Committee Monday that Montana children are being sent out of state for mental health services due in part to the state’s low rate of reimbursement. Monday’s panel was the beginning of the interim committee’s study of the state’s chi...