I noticed Laura (the restaurant owner) had a little bucket on the table. For like a week, I was just popping them here and there.

It's very important to point out this isn't an either-or situation between the traditional economy and the emerging one. Economic diversity is important.

We really can't speak of Montana as having a single economy. We really have to talk about it regionally.

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Montana is transitioning from a natural resource economy to a human-resource-based economy. Economic production is now more decentralized than 30 years ago. This has flattened the economic playing field so that businesses can do things in small towns that used to have to be done in big cities.