Those industries will inevitably mechanize, exhaust their resources and decline, eliminating jobs and stalling out economies in their wake. In order to stimulate lasting economic growth and ensure a strong future for coming generations, jobs, industry and income sources must continually diversify.

In the history of Grand Traverse County there is no lawyer or jurist with a more distinguished career than that of Justice Griffin.

I think it is important to emphasize that Montana's economy has been growing at an above-average rate compared to the rest of the nation for most of the last decade, so people's perception of the Montana economy as failing is distorted.