Guest Post

By Tracy McPherson, Hamilton   The proposed $420 million state budget cuts scare me because like a lot of people I have a hard time making ends meet right now. […]

  Once again our local invasive liberal progressive Marty Essen has submitted unsubstantiated statistics to support an allegation that is totally erroneous ¬– aka, a lie. Comrade Essen asserts that […]

  I am a mother of 3 and a home care worker with 9 clients, who also takes care of her aging father on the side.  Our clients depend on […]

  I am a caregiver in Montana helping seniors and others who are disabled and I’m writing on behalf of myself and as a voice for those who cannot because […]

  Mark Adams is one of three candidates running for Town of Stevensville Mayor. This week yard signs supporting his candidacy have popped up around town. I believe MT Code […]

  I heartily agree with Grace Wilson’s letter last week that God is the one who put out the fires. We prayed and He answered! We should all be thankful […]

  Dr. Theodore Dalrymple’s (a pen name) analysis of the chaos going on in Great Britain goes like this: “In modern welfare states, the struggle for subsistence has been abolished. […]

  President Trump is doing a great job in Washington and he is trying to untangle the evil things Obama did during his years there. To start, insurance is NOT […]

By Michael Hoyt, Corvallis   If you live in Montana, you recently received a flyer titled “Smoke and Flames” from Steve Daines, one of the state’s two senators. Besides the […]

  Having read Marty Essen’s letter and the “rebuttal” by Mike Miller, I find the latter to be completely without substance or solutions. Miller seems to dribble personal insults and […]

  Hiking up Sweeney Creek a couple of years ago I was intrigued by a grove of trees between Peterson Lake and Duffy Lake. I believe it was made up […]

    No one is deplorable. No one deserves our contempt. We have all gotten to where and what we are by doing our best with what we had in […]

  Through his signature tweeting campaign, Donald Trump began to transform the footballers’ protests (taking a knee) into a misrepresentation of the underlying motivation for their peaceful displays of dissent, […]

  Watching the massacre that just took place in Las Vegas, Nevada has left me wondering how many more will we be witness to? Looking back on previous acts of […]

By Margaret Gorski, Stevensville   Senator Daines, you have been in the press a lot lately; 1) on the need for forest management reform to reduce the risk of wildfire […]

    October 22 to 28 is White Ribbon Week in Ravalli County. The White Ribbon Campaign is a community-wide event designed to raise awareness about domestic violence.   Please […]

  As communities across the nation work to recover from recent natural disasters, many are discovering that while they have plenty of rebuilding to do, they lack the manpower to […]

By Drew Callaghan, Missoula   My wife and I recently ventured from our home in Montana on a two-week road trip to the Southwest. The excursion took us deep into […]

First, thanks to the Bitterroot Star et al for hosting last Thursday’s Candidates Forum.  You provided a terrific opportunity for Stevensville residents to hear from those running for Mayor and […]

Once again I find myself wondering if some of the most vehement anti-Trumpeters hear what I hear. President Trump has stated repeatedly that he is for the middle class, wants […]