Guest Post

I really enjoy Jerry Haslip’s responses to my letters on the economy and ObamaCare. He reliably uses many exclamation points (!), somehow figuring they’ll provide proof to his fact-less diatribes. […]

A letter last week inquired whether Col. Allen B. West’s speaking at the Hamilton Fair Grounds dinner on October 17th would constitute a new low in guest speakers. Emphatically not! […]

We human beings make a lot of mistakes. And when we fail to learn from mistakes, the results can be destructive. Case in point is this awesome Northern Rockies ecosystem […]

My gun walked into a school and wandered down the hall. I watched it from afar, wondering where it would go. My doctor walked down the hospital corridor to my […]

I have just become aware — rather late — that some armed, “patriotic” groups in this country were calling for anti-Islam/anti-Muslim demonstrations last weekend, October 9-10. As far as I […]

By Bob Williams, Stevensville I got mighty frustrated trying to understand words Pope Francis was voicing, in front of the US Congress. Since he was reading from a carefully composed […]

In the United States, you could stand in the midst of a pack of wolves, swim with a shark, and then camp near a grizzly bear and her cubs—all within […]

I see where the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee (RCRCC) is bringing Fox News political commentator and former Florida Congressman (one term) Allen West to the Bitterroot this month to […]

After all the horrible fires we have had, and the thick as pea soup smoke, hazardous to our health, the headlines of the Ravalli Republic… The Forest service would like […]

I would like to thank all the businesses in Stevensville and especially Valley Drug for their continued support of the Aid For Mammography Fund at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. These […]

Representative Zinke is sponsoring a bill that requires a person challenging a collaboratively based forest activity to post a bond covering costs of the Forest Service to defend against a […]

Contentious conversations in the Bitterroot Star have simmered down a bit since I moved here four years ago. I find this encouraging! I love thoughtful, respectful, and challenging discussions. In […]

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, a brilliant piece of work, was written by a group of people who knew what they were doing. It outlined a new way […]

Van P. Keele’s 23 September 2015 letter to the Bitterroot Star editor demands a response. In a nutshell, jobs are not back! The real unemployment rate is actually 9.3 percent! […]

On a balmy fall evening my son Craig drove me to see the newly created Bear Mountain Playground in Stevensville. The entire park was full of families, one group watching […]

By Jane Hron, RN BSN, Marcus Daly Home Health & Hospice Department Head Marcus Daly Hospice encourages you to review solicitation pleas carefully. Hospice is a movement that developed about […]

In the past couple of months we have had two emergencies requiring EMT’s and ambulances. The first responders were the folks from Three-Mile Fire. I cannot say enough about these […]

By Patti Eldredge, Victor Open Letter to J. R. Iman, Greg Chilcott, and Jeff Burrows, Ravalli County Commissioners and to their legal advisers Howard Recht and Alan McCormick, concerning the […]

Jeff Lonn, of Hamilton sent a very disturbing letter to the Missoulian entitled “Timber project threatens trail.” NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard), all over again. Apparently looking for sympathy […]

We are often reminded that “elections have consequences.” It certainly appears that was the case in Montana when on her way to being the first woman elected to Congress, the […]