This guest column was written on behalf of NCAT's Executive Director Steve Thompson in July, 2021 The soil that covers 93 million acres...

This guest column was written on behalf of NCAT's Executive Director Steve Thompson in April, 2022 As the world’s farmers watch the cost...

As the novel Coronavirus spread closer to home during the early spring of 2020, Department of Commerce-supported businesses quickly...

I wrote this column in late 2017 to raise awareness of a policy change being considered in Congress, and how it would negatively impact...

I wrote this column in June 2017 to recognize Innovate Day and kick off Montana's Innovation Conference. The column was published in...

I wrote this guest column in May 2019 to recognize Economic Development Week and recent policy success in the Montana Legislature. This...

I wrote this guest column in 2017 on behalf of members of Montana's film industry as part of an effort to advance a tax incentive for...

As the Director of Communications & Public Affairs for the Montana Department of Commerce, one of the projects I took on was to give...

Polson, Montana is known for many things. It’s home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, the Confederated Salish and...

This piece originally aired on Montana Public Radio on June 23, 2010. The Monastery of Saint Clare sits on a wide open bluff on the...

This story first aired on NPR's Morning Edition, Jan. 19, 2010. Montana has been mostly insulated from the national recession. Local...

This story first aired on NPR, Dec. 30, 2009. New companies start up every day, but how many of them have a knockout punch? Just as the...

One of the best opportunities that comes with working at an NPR member station, is the ability to pitch and file freelance features for...

This story first aired on Montana Public Radio on August 6, 2009. Tucked away in a valley next to the Missouri River between Great Falls...

I spent the majority of October finalizing and rolling out a series of multimedia reports on Idaho's doctor shortage. In a nutshell, the...

When you start talking about campaign finance reports, it's likely more than a few people in your audience will stop listening. The...

I got an email from a photo editor at The Wall Street Journal earlier this week saying they'd like to use some of my photosfor a feature...

There's a brand new pizza joint in southeast Boise. It's nestled in a mini-strip mall with a gas station, dry cleaner and hair salon. On...

Idaho has the largest percentage of minimum wage workers in the United States. It also has more minimum wage workers, in raw numbers,...

This story originally aired on Montana Public Radio on Dec. 24, 2009. Every Thursday morning in the basement of Our Redeemer’s Lutheran...