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By Carol Burrill, Corvallis Nancy, I read with great interest your “introduction” announcement. You and I both know that we are very well acquainted with the way we both operate. For […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton I reacted rather hard to two of the letters in your issue of 2/5/20 and had to remind myself how unhelpful that is. In response, though, […]

By Max Smith, Stevensville Getting to know Daniel Carlino has been one of the best parts of my last year. We met at one of his neighborhood Public Service Commission […]

By Frank Novotny, Victor I noted two recent excellent letters. “American tradition” and “Extreme platform.” Of note in the first is that Trump is not a politician. He is a […]

By Roger Koopman, Bozeman At the recent Montana Republican Kickoff, something very strange happened. A GOP legislator from Billings suggested that he ought to be shot. Representative Rodney Garcia dropped a stink […]

By Dempsey Vick, Stevensville Town Council member I have read some feedback on the Climate Action Advisory Board and felt that since I was the councilmember that spearheaded this resolution, […]

By Ron de Yong, Kalispell Economists at the American Farm Bureau estimated that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would have provided American producers over $4 billion annually in increased sales, but Trump […]

By David Welch, Hamilton In his first three years of office, Trump has made an astonishing 16,241 documented false or misleading claims. This breathtaking number is composed of 1,999 in […]

By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville On the topic of climate change, there should be no argument—the climate is changing. It is a proven fact. Rick Landry, Corvallis, is correct. He is […]

By Mike Mercer, Stevensville Climate change has been studied to the point of war between two sides with little knowledge of just how complex our little blue planet is but […]

By Marc Cooke, President, Wolves of the Rockies, Stevensville Wolves of the Rockies attended a two-day Montana Environmental Quality Council meeting recently in Helena. During that time, three or more hours were […]

By Randy Laird, Manager, MedFlight Air Ambulance for the Billings Clinic I have been in the medical services industry for 34 years in Montana. As a nurse with the Billings […]

By Grace Wilson, Stevensville To all my Democrat friends: Perhaps there was a time when the Democratic party had some worthwhile statements in their platform, or at least were worth considering. […]

By Andy Roubik, Hamilton On Sunday, January 26, someone topped and mutilated two of the locust trees that have graced our downtown Hamilton for at least 15 years. The two trees […]

By Montana Historical Society Board of Trustees: Bruce Whittenberg (MHS Director), Kent Kleinkopf, Missoula (Board President), Bob Brown, Whitefish, Cliff Edwards, Billings, Ed Jasmin, Helena, Chuck Johnson, Helena, Steve Lozar, Polson, Douglas MacDonald, Missoula, Thomas Minckler, Billings, Thomas Nygard, […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Is there any tradition more American than the renegade who does The Right Thing? I was hoping for 4-5 of that sort among the Republican senators in […]

By Henry Fowler, Stevensville Below is my version of a draft copy of the Democratic Party platform for 2020. The final version may differ in minor details, but policy statements […]

By Verena Gruber, Mautendorf, Austria I first visited the Bitterroot Valley in early March 2018 and came back to further explore the more “protected” Bitterroot mountains as well as the […]

By Bill Galt, President, Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame Recently one of our members submitted a letter expressing his opinions about the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. We disagree with his […]

By Ty Capelle, Hamilton In my reading of the ongoing legal issues brought about due to recent decisions regarding conditional use permits by the ZBA, with regards to neighborhood groups […]