Past editions of the Almanac, filed by week.

The Beargrass Almanac publishes every Monday from the Flathead Valley, Montana. Five minutes to read. What happened in AI last week, and what it means for a rural small business.

The current edition lives at /almanac/. Each prior edition has a permanent issue-scoped URL: /almanac/issue-NNN/. Newest first.

2026

Edition No. 2

Monday, April 20, 2026. Week of April 11-17, 2026. Current edition.

Google Business Profile Q&A ends and a new thirty-day freshness signal appears in the ranking algorithm. Copilot Business promotional pricing ends June 30 and rises from eighteen to twenty-one dollars per user per month. The FTC settles with Air AI and bans it from marketing business opportunities to small businesses. The SBA reminds eleven Montana counties that drought-loan applications close May 4.

Planting Chart. Refresh your Google Business Profile in thirty minutes.

Tide Table. How AI answers and the 2026 Google changes are reshaping how customers find local businesses.

Edition No. 1

Monday, April 13, 2026. Week of April 4-10, 2026. Archived.

Microsoft Copilot terms of service describe the product as for entertainment purposes only. OpenAI adds a hundred-dollar-per-month ChatGPT tier. The Montana Secretary of State warns against a labor-poster mailing scam. The Verge raises the question of whether human-made work is being mistaken for AI work.

Planting Chart. If a labor-poster letter arrived, do not pay it; check the Montana Department of Labor and Industry website for what you actually need.

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