Guest Post

By Helen and Marc Sabin, Corvallis The April 28 article, entitled “Aristocracy or democracy” by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas (F-T) doesn’t make sense. Mary, please try to clear up what you meant so […]

By Frank Novotny, Captain, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, retired, Victor In answer to that letter, it must be said that we were never meant to be a democracy. We were meant […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Our country continues to suffer through one unbelievable crisis after another. There seems to be no end to the racially generated incidents. Or, that is what the […]

By Wylie Galt (R-Martinsdale), Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives, Casey Knudsen (R-Malta), Speaker Pro Tempore, and Sue Vinton (R-Lockwood), Majority Leader The 67th Session of the Montana Legislature is one […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Recent national activities have motivated me to generate another letter.  This time I would like to primarily discuss police activities and the southern border catastrophe. Once again, […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton I simply do not understand why so many people (esp. Republicans?) are so eager to trust rich people instead of the representative government that we, by definition, […]

By Aviv Guscio, Ellis Walker-Keleher, Grace Gibson-Snyder and Virgil Jones, Missoula We, the four authors of this piece, range in age from 14 to 17. As young people engaged in local […]

By Ed Sperry Col USAF (ret), Stevensville Isn’t that about how most of us prepare for a School Board election?  That is if we vote at all. Please don’t be offended […]

It is time to vote in the important election for School Board Trustees.  Return your ballot to the Ravalli County Election Administrator not later than 4 May. Unfortunately, there is […]

by Shari Austin, Stevensville In this day and age when everyday citizens do not have much control over what happens in Washington D.C., there is one thing the everyday citizen can […]

by Frank Novotny, Victor I have seen advertisements on the internet regarding cutting taxes for the wealthy. Now this may take a little bit of thought, so here goes. First question: […]

by Samantha Bruegger The new film “Wildlife Killing Contests” is—as intended—extremely difficult to watch. The recently released twenty-five-minute documentary, produced by Filipe DeAndrade and Brian Moghari in partnership with Project […]

by Eric Houtchens I no longer recognize our system of government. Growing up we had a two party democracy with conservatives, moderates, and liberals. Now, I see a government controlled […]

by Conrad Anker, Rachel Schmidt, Francine Spang-Willis and Andrew Posewitz Once again, the Rally for Public Lands at the State Capitol was proof that our public lands and outdoor way of life bind us. […]

By Lake Como Orchard Estates, Homeowners, Darby On Easter Sunday morning our community experienced what could have been a major tragedy due to a very fast moving and wind driven fire in […]

By Marc & Helen Sabin, Corvallis This is in response to Kris Bayer’s letter on “Majority rules?” published in the Wednesday, April 7 edition of the Bitterroot Star.    The Bitterroot […]

By Susan McCreary, Stevensville I have to question what is really going on with the Biden Administration allowing uncontrolled illegal aliens into the U.S. of A. William Henry Frey, who graduated […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Time for another letter.  This time I want to address the subjects of “unity” and “censorship”. Let’s see how the new President’s promise to seek unity […]

By Charles E. Wissenbach, Pinesdale Know about them? They’re coming back so why not learn? Seventy-five years ago, Chucky (that’s me, Charles), wheel-hoed for grandparents. Today Chucky won’t garden without […]