Center For New Frontiers

THE MISSION

The Center for New Frontiers is dedicated to opening new frontiers for freedom so Montanans can build and create an abundant future.

2023-2025 Policy Priorities

The Center’s biennium policy priorities are:

Securing fundamental rights to enable economic dynamism
Regulatory reforms to empower innovators and entrepreneurs
Encouraging crypto and blockchain innovation
Eliminating policy barriers to energy abundance
Developing pro-innovation environmental policy

Montana 2050 Project

The Center will also lead the Montana 2050 Project, an initiative to develop a long-range free market policy vision for issues critical to future economic prosperity. During the 23-25 Biennium, the Center will explore long-range Montana 2050 priorities in the following issue areas:

Property Rights
Occupational Licensing
Education
Red Tape Relief

The Latest

78 Ways To Cut Red Tape

"Just two years in, the Red Tape Relief Initiative has prompted at least 78 separate legislative proposals from state agencies that we’ve identified which advance the initiative’s mandate, meaning massive Red Tape Relief is on the way for Montanans in 2023."

By Tanner Avery

Frontier Institute Spotlights Solutions to ‘Big Tech’ in New Video

Frontier Institute: Big Government is not the answer to 'Big Tech'

By Frontier Institute

The Role of Regulations on Inflation

"At a time when inflation is running rampant, there is little doubt that these massive rule increases are raising costs for Americans."

By Tanner Avery

Making Montana a Home For Innovation

"Montana leaders have a choice to make: Either welcome crypto entrepreneurs or watch the economic activity generated by this fast-growing industry move elsewhere."

By Tanner Avery

Crypto, DeFi and Montana’s Economic Future

"By affording this budding industry a light regulatory touch with flexibility for new ideas, Montana could become home to the next world changing innovation."

By Kendall Cotton

When Regulations Crush Entrepreneurs

"If we have so much regulation that it makes it not worthwhile, then we’re not going to be able to stay in business.”

By Tanner Avery

Regulatory Barriers to Geothermal Energy

"Advances in geothermal energy technology provide Montana the opportunity to enhance our energy sector while powering the nation."

By Hannah Downey

Montana’s 2022 New Year’s Resolution

Rule notices indicate the Red Tape Relief Initiative has already spurred large reductions in the state’s regulatory burden.

By Tanner Avery

Montana Poised for Red Tape Relief in 2022

The stage is set for Montana to begin reversing this trend in 2022. Rule notices indicate the Red Tape Relief Initiative has already spurred large reductions in the state’s regulatory burden.

By Kendall Cotton

Regulations Crush Environmental Innovation

The Cahoons’ story is a stark reminder of how excessive red tape can crush the dreams of entrepreneurs and stifle innovative solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.

By Kendall Cotton

Turning to Taxpayers Should be Politicians’ Last Resort

By focusing on enabling citizens to control their lives, governments will provide the maximum freedom for innovators, disruptors and entrepreneurs to do what they do best and solve society’s problems.

By Kendall Cotton

MTLeg Viewpoint: Montana Democrats Working to Cut Red Tape in Health Care

There are laws all over the books in Montana that don’t match up to the way folks access health care now.

By Rep. Kim Abbott

To Promote Economic Recovery, Montana Needs Regulatory Relief

"It’s surprising, for example, that the home of the country’s “golden triangle” of wheat farming regulates crop production more than any other neighbor in the Mountain West."

By Kendall Cotton, James Broughel