Guest Post

by Nicola Laverack, Stevensville Recently, our state’s conservation champion, U.S. Senator Jon Tester, reintroduced the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act (BCSA), a responsible, Montana-made, conservation bill designed to protect our outdoor way […]

by Frank Novotny, Victor Regarding the comment on “conspiracy theorists” by Miss Thomas, I am reminded of the very beginning of the book “The Unseen Hand, An Introduction Into The Conspiratorial […]

By Helen Sabin, Corvallis Mary Fahnenstock-Thomas’ (MFT) recent piece has some points to which I have to respond as she used ad hominem attacks on my husband and me as well […]

by Mark Van Loon, Hamilton Both, but neither. We are actually a Constitutional Democratic Republic. A Republic because we use representatives in government. A Democratic Republic because we, the people, elect […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Months ago, when my husband was called for possible jury duty and found himself being interviewed with about 30 other people during jury selection, this was the […]

By Robert D. Walsh, Ph.D., Professor, Bitterroot College/UM Higher education in Montana is heading for Dodge City before Wyatt Earp got there. MUS Regents, come to the rescue! Regarding the proposal […]

By Bob Williams, Stevensville Here’s the present situation, at the national level. Last December the Gallup Poll found that about 41% of the USA identified themselves as Independents, with 31% identifying […]

By Liz Cook, President, Stevensville Civic Club The Stevensville Civic Club is proud to support the new Splash Pad in Stevensville at Lewis & Clark Park. As Civic Club President, and […]

By Phiffe Rogers, Hamilton Democrats have been slandered and called names such as “libtards” and accused of being secular, socialist and of having a liberal “agenda.” In reality, Democrats aim to […]

By Judy Burhop, Darby I don’t understand why so many people haven’t gotten the vaccine. It has nothing to do with politics. It’s a health issue; a human being issue. Like […]

By John Russell, Missoula After I read the statement in the April 23 Bitterroot Star by Stevensville school board candidate Leda Turnage, I immediately wondered: What cloud of far-right disinformation did […]

By Teresa Larsen, Victor President Biden has recently asked foster parents in the State of California to take in some of the thousands of immigrant children who have crossed the border […]

By Laura Garber, Hamilton Homicide. Infanticide. Pesticide. Herbicide. Genocide. Yes, these words do all belong together. These words detail the current atrocity of chemical agriculture. When fossil-fuel derived fertilizers, herbicides, […]

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 […]