Tips & Trends

First Annual Technology Summit

Gallatin Public Affairs is pleased to announce our First Annual Technology Summit

Today’s tightening financial markets and weakening economy force businesses to seek alternative revenue streams. Learn how you can secure federal government funding as a non-equity source of capital to finance research and development and non-recurring engineering costs.

Doing Well By Doing Good

Doing Well by Doing Good: An Idaho Cobalt Mine Client Sets the Bar Higher

If the old saying “man bites dog is news” is true, then “environmental group works in harmony with mining company” should be big news. In Idaho, it is. Formation Capitol Corporation, a long-time Gallatin Public Affairs client, struck a true win-win agreement on August 18th with Idaho’s largest and oldest conservation group.

What’s Your Energy Policy IQ?

1) Did you know that Congress has introduced 350 pieces of legislation related to clean energy policy? 2) Did you know that more than 20 fortune 500 companies have joined forces with the nation's leading ...

Carbon emissions at the top of the public policy agenda.

Carbon emissions and the role those emissions play in altering global climate are at the top of the public policy agenda and on the top of people’s minds. From oil companies to railroads, from auto ...

Lessons Learned from a Great Client

All of us at Gallatin Public Affairs offer our warmest congratulations to Dr. Tim White, the current President of the University of Idaho, who has just been named Chancellor of the University of California-Riverside. Tim ...

Sustainable Development: Tips and Trends

Sustainability is playing an increasing role in shaping how developers site, design, and market communities. There is an expectation, if not an outright demand, from homebuyers that developments – and individual homes within the developments ...

Inspector General Report on Earmarks

The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General recently conducted an audit in response to a request by Senator Tom Coburn, (R-OK) who was interested in the cost, impact and potential ethical concerns with ...



When Gov. Gary Locke signed the agreement to assemble the Boeing 7E7 in Everett, Boeing vice president Mike Bair confided that when the aerospace giant started the site selection process, Boeing officials didn’t think Washington had a chance.
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When the Montana Department of Revenue (MDOR) faced the challenge of replacing its crippled computer system, Fast Enterprises, maker of GenTax, the first off-the-shelf integrated tax processing package, contacted The Gallatin Group.
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Ida-West Energy, an independent power producer and affiliate of Idaho Power Company, was charged with siting and permitting a 250-megawatt, natural gas turbine energy facility in southwestern Idaho.
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In 2001, Pacific Seafood Group faced increasingly strict regulations governing wastewater discharges from its Warrenton, Ore., fish processing plant.
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The Columbia River Channel Coalition had successfully built public consensus among the political and opinion leaders of the Pacific Northwest for an economically viable and environmentally sound plan to deepen and maintain the Columbia River channel from Portland to Astoria.
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As the largest hospital in the region, Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., receives constant media attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from capital building projects to labor negotiations to medical crises.
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The Amalgamated Sugar Company, the largest sugar beet cooperative in Idaho, wanted to extend an Idaho Department of Transportation pilot project that allowed the use of 129,000-pound trucks on specific routes.
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