Guest Post

  After the recent school shooting the usual cries for gun “safety” went out. Stephen Smith who lost his mother in a school shooting wrote a great pro-gun guest editorial […]

This is a somewhat belated thank you to the new owner of the Fort Owen Ranch, Myla Yahraus. What a joy to hear of her civic minded attitude and wanting […]

By Dennis Hicks, Hamilton It has been reported that the gone-viral passionate speech by Emma Gonzalez was an incentive for the recent school walkouts in Hamilton (and presumably elsewhere). Emma […]

By Cory Swanson, Helena   In 2015, the Montana Legislature ratified the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) –Water Compact with Montana, which settled all water rights claimed by the […]

  I know why the Democratic party can’t win. First, they don’t have a message. The Republicans came to the American workers with promise of bringing jobs home. They provided […]

  I graduated from a small college in the Midwest that is associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa. My school is grounded in the liberal arts and […]

  The State of Montana lists over 60 birds as “species of concern,” including the threatened Piping Plover and the more seriously endangered Interior Least Tern and Whooping Crane. That […]

  I wish to add a little to the whole story that Dennis Hicks put in his letter to the Bitterroot Star dated Feb. 28, 2018. I think he did well on […]

  I spent much of my adult life working with people fighting over what is left of the original America that Lewis and Clark explored a short 200 years ago. […]

By Gary Moseman, Lincoln   The second full week of March is always a busy one around Montana as the snow melts and the bears and residents come out of […]

  In the wake of the Valentine’s day Florida high school massacre, I am deeply disturbed by what I see as the growing politicizing of education. Case in point: according […]

  During a recent Stevensville Town Council meeting there was a discussion regarding the mayor’s employment with the fire department and a potential conflict of interest with his role as […]

  Thank you, Bitterroot Star, for your heartwarming and soul restoring lead story of March 7: Valley Heeds Call for Help. Thank you to the members and leaders of the […]

  There have been so many letters and articles regarding Senator Daines’ Bill releasing less than half the acres in Montana Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) it’s hard to know where […]

  I really love your paper, but I am sorely disappointed in the article by Michael Howell on what it means to lift the WSA designations. First, early in the […]

  An alarming new study was recently published concerning pregnant women who had measurable levels of glyphosate/Roundup in their urine. More than 90% of pregnant women in the study had […]

  If you read the letter and analyze it, you must realize, Mr. Lawrence would be a good writer for the left-wing half-truth news media. If he is going to […]

  I understand that the White House is going ahead with their ill-advised military parade, sans 65ton M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, down Pennsylvania Blvd. on Veterans Day, Sunday Nov.11. […]

By Dave Smith, Victor   About fifty years ago, when I was around twelve years old, my parents built a summer cabin a few miles down from Painted Rock Reservoir, […]

  I confess that I avoid political discussions with certain family members. And I have even, occasionally, dismissed views very different from my own. But I am not an elected […]