Guest Post

By Reilly Neill, Livingston Climate change and global warming are important issues for Montanans. Coming changes will broadly impact our economic sectors and put inevitable strain on state resources. Challenges […]

By Michael Hoyt, Corvallis The Forest Service is moving forward with one of its largest project in decades which will have an impact on the water Bitterroot Valley ranchers and […]

By Rick Landry, Corvallis With all due respect owing one of our nation’s approaching octogenarians, I must respond to David Stover’s assertion that “your party (Democrats) own the KKK as […]

By Rep. Mary Ann Dunwell, Helena “We need to talk about suicide,” teachers said choking back tears, or letting them flow, as they interviewed recently for Montana’s Teacher of the […]

By Peter Lethenstrom, Stevensville Having followed your instructions, I have graduated from being the “Apprentice” to now being “Boss” and happy to state you were and continue to be an […]

By Dee Gibney *unedited Sadly the vast ignorance of the left continues in letters to the editor. They cannot accept the fact that the United States of America have laws […]

By Jay Bugli, Stevensville Open Letter to Ravalli County Commissioners: In regards to the Hughes Creek Gate, there is one serious issue that has not been discussed: The land parcels […]

By David Stover, Stevensville I read the guest comment from David Welch and at first blush, I thought it was a conservative individual dissing liberal Democrats. He indicated that his ancestors […]

By Marty Essen, Victor When Donald Trump wishes to defend his bigotry, he calls people of color “racists.” When US Senator Steve Daines wishes to defend whatever he’s working on for […]

By Judy Hoy, Stevensville On August 22, a lady called me and told me of an unusual encounter with a hummingbird she had that morning. She noticed her kitten was […]

By Dee Brown, SD2, Chair , Legislative Audit Committee The Legislative Audit Committee met last month to hear performance and financial audits on several agencies of state government. This committee was written […]

By Jim Hamilton, Florence As a gun owner and game hunter I am truly horrified and saddened by the misuse weapons of sport and recreation have experienced in our society […]

By TJ Smith, Billings Meatless Mondays for your school lunch program? Meat grown in a petri dish from a foreign lab? These are questions we need to ask Governor Bullock. […]

By David Welch, Hamilton Fear and ignorance were on full display in recent Bitterroot Star opinion letters. As Republicans across the country attempt to diminish and excuse the full throated […]

By Bob Williams, Stevensville Feeling good about characterizing some people as liberals? Read on. Feeling good about our President forcefully acting against immigrant? For the last four years, have you been […]

By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville There have been times when government tried, but failed, to remove from society certain consumer products. The Prohibition era began with the passage of the 18th […]

By Dee Gibney, Hamilton There is a new movie being promoted that anyone on the left, and those who dislike President Trump, if they have any humanity, should avoid and […]

By Mike Mercer, Stevensville How many fingers am I holding up, oh you can’t see that, sorry; I am holding up three fingers, I swear, prove me wrong. If you […]

By Joe Lamson, Commissioner, Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission, Helena Rather than helping Montana regain a second US House seat, Republican Sen. Fred Thomas has chosen to take partisan political […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton I am grateful today, Sunday, August 11th, for Theresa Manzella’s op. ed. about standing on principles in the “Ravalli Republic.” She is upset with the Republicans […]