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Get ready for Billings’ future, says economist Larry Swanson, director of the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana.

If local leaders hope to steer Billings toward a bright economic future, they can’t wait for a "one size fits all" plan handed down from Helena or Washington, D.C.

The plan has to percolate up from the local level, says Larry Swanson, director of the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana http://www.crmw.org .

Billings must start planning now for the retirement of the baby boomer generation and a potential shortage of trained workers, or the community’s decadelong economic expansion could be in jeopardy, Swanson said Friday morning at an economic development seminar sponsored by Celebrate Billings.

By TOM HOWARD
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/18/news/local/25-billings-future_x.txt

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