Guest Post

By Bill LaCroix, Victor At a recent Ravalli County Commissioners’ meeting to ‘develop a message about COVID-19’, one man stood up to proclaim that he was an ‘Americanist’, which meant […]

By Brenda Allington, Florence On 04/07/2019, a letter to the editor entitled “Democrats Pushing Radical Socialism” was published in the Missoulian. My beloved friend, Kevin Hammond, a scholar of history and […]

By Brett DeBruycker, Dutton Agriculture is facing very pressing issues today that will determine the viability of family-owned operations. Future Federal and state administrations, governors, senators, representatives, and local governments are […]

By Roger Koopman, Bozeman We are the people of liberty.  The family of freedom.  In our bloodstream is the inheritance of our common ancestors – men who jump off the pages […]

By Frank Novotny, Victor I know a few things. One night while playing darts with my stepson my knees were hurting badly. A symptom of old paratrooper’s disease. He offered to […]

  By Jim Crews, Stevensville Moving Stevensville Forward seems to think there is some sort of Secret Society in Stevensville. If there is, I think a woman named Sue is […]

By Kathy Wehrly, Melissa Hughes and Cheryl Waterworth, Hamilton TEN THOUSAND willows, aspens, serviceberry and dogwood shrubs, and cottonwoods planted the length of FIVE football fields, surrounded by EIGHT-FOOT-TALL FENCING, […]

By Elliott Oppenheim, MD, JD, LLM Health Law This year has been the worst of years. We are locked in a winter of our discontent.  Lulu was dead. She strangled […]

By Angela Lyons, Stevensville Mayor Dewey is facing recall for one reason. He broke the law.  When he sued the recall petitioner he claimed that the petition was a lie.  Ravalli […]

By Sarah Roubik, Corvallis We are so lucky for the opportunity to have Laura Merrill represent Ravalli County in Helena!  I have done business with Laura for over 26 years and […]

By Denise Juneau, Montana State Superintendent from 2009 – 2017; Linda McCulloch, Montana State Superintendent from 2001 – 2009; Nancy Keenan, Montana State Superintendent from 1989 – 2001 For 28 years, we […]

By Mike Miller, Stevensville In reference and public response to Michael Koeppen, Florence re: “SENATE DISTRICT 44” (Sep 22), he calls Theresa Manzella an “outsider.” Nothing could be further from the […]

By Bridget Johnson, Missoula I’ve known Margaret Gorski for 20 years. She is smart, hard-working, listens, cares and she shows up. Both her work experience and her volunteer experience demonstrate that […]

By Corrine Gantt, Hamilton Theresa Manzella, bless her heart, declared today on her campaign Facebook page, Manzella for Montana, that, in the interest of unity, she will take up the standard […]

By Kenneth Brown Jr., Hamilton A firearm has saved my life, both as a combat infantry man, Korean War, 1950, with three Purple Hearts, and as a Treasury and FBI agent, […]

By Roy Morton, Corvallis The more government plans the less the individual can plan. In other words, the more government plans and controls the life of the individual the less options […]

By Diane Thomas-Rupert, Stevensville REMEMBER all those “flyers” you received in the mail? Yes, how could we forget? If you look closely at them you will see, if they were distributed […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Have you made up your mind on who you will vote for? I assume most have but let me throw out a few thoughts for those who […]

By Sue Devlin, Stevensville An out of the blue FB message was sent to a local business here in Stevi earlier this week: it was from someone who calls himself/herself Patrick […]

By Joseph C. Gallagher Jr., Stevensville Our reality and our future? If these numbers are true for 10/24/20, are we the new Neanderthal species on this planet and China the new […]