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 […]
Fractured
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 […]
Public lands are worth protecting
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. […]
Heartfelt ‘thank you’ to our firefighters
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 […]
Making the most of public education
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 […]
Questioning Biden Administration
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 […]
Unity and censorship
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 […]
How about a wheel hoe for your garden?
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 […]
Capitol Hill Live
Original Cartoon – George Wenzel, Hamilton
Dungeons and Dragons – A Satanic Game
Dear Bitterroot Star, I’m writing about the North Valley Public Library’s notification of Role playing games in person or online for teenagers, 13-18 yrs. The Dungeons and Dragons game being […]
Looney ideas
Dear Sir, I got a good laugh from your editorial cartoon showing a big fat pistol packin’ man with the caption of needing to be armed at the playground, etc. […]
Quick vaccines
The recent letter to the editor using the term “stupid” regarding the poor organization of the local hospital’s covid vaccination process was beyond the definition of showing a lack of […]
Our amazing Mr. President
America give him credit, our president is absolutely fantastic! Terrific worker: Does more work than a whole army of socialists. Collaborative: With others he transforms the solemn constitutional impeachment into […]
House bills bad idea
It is with great sadness that I write this letter having learned that the House Fish, Wildlife and Parks committee is advancing HB224 and 225 which, if passed, will result […]
Clean energy? Not so fast
Dear Editor, This is in reply to the article, VALLEY GROUP WORKING for CLEANER ENERGY, Wednesday February 17. The article should have been titled, Misleading and Biased information in the Valley […]
The Myth of ‘Clean Energy’
The irony of the February 17, 2021 Bitterroot Star front page article “Valley group working for cleaner energy” was not lost on me. While Texas was suffering through severe cold […]
Cooperative effort
This past Saturday, 2/13, a heartening, cooperative effort took place in the Bitterroot. Many entities and volunteers organized to provide COVID 19 vaccine […]
When will a fake-lawyer-disbar start?
Never! Although lawyers helped make dishonest political drama of the Trump I preachment circuses. House Speaker Pelosi knowing Trump’s guilty without sworn testimony hi-balls a most hasty impeachment to the […]
Thou shall not steal
He had his purposes, in using the best megaphone in the world, and established operatives, to cause national sentiment, also organized groups, to doubt the results of the upcoming 2020 […]
They’re not patriots
Warning. I don’t have a gun but I do have the power of the pen. Perhaps you don’t know that we have the same election strategy we have had for […]
