By Clarice Ryan, Bigfork Carbon is a solid black substance. Oxygen is a colorless, odorless gas. Combine these two and you have CO2, a colorless, odorless non-toxic gas! There is […]
Managing CWD will take cooperation from everyone
By Bill Geer, President, Montana Wildlife Federation Montana hunters have been afield pursuing deer, elk and other big game, just as we have done for decades. But new this […]
Another side
By Susan McCreary, Stevensville In reply to letter of Hattie Farrell (Bitterroot Star, Nov. 14), I also attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I listened to […]
BBER, county commissioners get it wrong
By Russ Lawrence, President, Bitterrooters for Planning The recently-released report by UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research on “The Impact of Timber Harvest Declines on the Ravalli County […]
Worthless ‘study’
By Kirk Thompson, Stevensville Recently the county commissioners paid $17,000 to the UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research to do a study of what the economy of the […]
Accountability can smart
By Ed Sperry, Stevensville The Ravalli County Commissioners deserve a lot of credit for commissioning the report by the Bureau of Business and Economic research at the University of […]
Almost completely red
By Bob Brown, Helena Montana appears well down the road to becoming a one-party, Republican, deeply conservative state, like the states that surround us. Jon Tester’s survival was an […]
Bitter Root Humane Shelter – ‘We are here, we are here!’
By Christin Rzasa Eve Burnsides, Operations Manager for the Bitter Root Humane Association (BRHA), expressed frustration recently that “too many people don’t seem to know we’re here.” Referring to the […]
Recognizing Dale Burk’s legacy
By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville Dale Burk was one of the first people I became acquainted with after I moved to the Bitterroot from Jacksonville, Florida, over eight years ago. […]
Optimism
By Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis The majority of Montanans had the common sense to return Jon Tester to the senate. Good for us. All Montanans sleep safer tonight […]
Where’s all the protest?
By Mike Miller, Stevensville I saw this public Facebook post after the elections from a guy named Jim Skelton; it read: “Republicans lost the house last night. Today there are […]
Pleasant polling place
By Carolyn Cook, Election Judge, Stevensville With all the negativity and animosity that surrounded the campaign, I was not looking forward to working as an election judge at the Stevensville Polling […]
Vote them out
By Hattie Farrell, Stevensville I attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I spoke at the meeting about Jim Crews being considered for the council as he […]
A RINO?
By Jerry Haslip, Victor Allen B. Gates wrote another verbose diatribe containing blistering commentary about President Trump’s leadership qualities, as contained in his November 7, 2018 letter in the Bitterroot […]
20th century success story
By Bruce King, Hamilton Recently I received a book from a friend who grew up in Denmark, and married an American in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Denmark. The […]
No closer to truth or justice
By David A. Merrick, Corvallis Once again, an election is over and once again, nothing will change. Neither Truth or Justice was an issue and hasn’t been for much of […]
In harm’s way
By Charles Sleath, Hamilton What kind of nation are we that we would rejoice in sending our sons and daughters in harm’s way? They go for the honor, and […]
Darkness
By Peter Lethenstrom, Stevensville Democracy dies in darkness… the Washington Post. What do you think?
The free press
By Allen E. Barr, Stevensville The media is claiming that there is an attack on the free press. The importance of a free press is beyond question. James Madison […]
Refugees, not immigrants
By Star Jameson, Hamilton I am deeply disturbed that the media refer to the thousands travelling north through Mexico from South America as “immigrants.” Is this some way of whitewashing […]