Guest Post

By Rep. Ed Greef, HD-88, Florence   There’s a better way than ‘staying away’. Voters from both parties are expressing their frustration with the national election by wondering if they […]

Bob Brown, I had to chuckle when I read your letter to the Star (09/21/16) endorsing Hillary Clinton! Ironically, the first time I crossed over to vote for a Democrat […]

As a young boy, living on the edge of the Pintlers, I had the unique opportunity of spending time with my grandfather hunting and learning to trap and run a […]

Certain trappers consistently hide the truth and howl fallacious threats. The wolf population will not explode if trapping is limited to private lands the size of Wyoming. In fact, in […]

We volunteer at the Stevensville recycling bin once a week because it is our strong belief that recycling is important for the entire country. Volunteers are needed at the bin […]

I would like to express my sincere and enduring thank you to the members of the 2016 Founders Day Team that worked with commitment and intensity for 21 months to […]

I serve as a commissioner in a county where nearly 50 percent of the land is federally owned. There are some Montana counties, such as Mineral and Sanders Counties, where […]

I am writing this letter in hopes that you can avoid the terrible mistake I have made. Last year I hired a local landscape company to help establish a new […]

By Tim Peterson, President, VVSC Board of Directors   Annually, for every dollar Ravalli County residents invest through the mill levy to support the Valley Veterans Service Center, the county’s […]

By Joyce McConaha, Stevensville   Bob Brown, former Montana Secretary of State, is upset, it seems, by Donald Trump’s ego. It seems to me that it would take a monumental […]

There is a lot of discussion and reference to bigotry, racism and discrimination during the hectic political process, in which, the country is currently engaged. No one, however, has seen […]

For the most part I like and support our Governor Steve Bullock and I’ve heard in his reelection rhetoric him talking about new business starts and the ease of doing […]

I recently saw a high school classmate from California advocating to vote against I-177 at the trapper’s booth during the Ravalli County Fair. He stated that “any change is bad.” […]

Recently, trappers have been trying to tie their activity in with hunting and fishing, that voting to prohibit trapping on public lands will lead to similar restrictions against hunters and […]

Change is always with us, necessitating modifying our behaviors if we wish to maintain the best quality of life for ourselves and future generations. As a fifth generation Montanan, my […]

Recent remarks by Margaret Gorski (Star letter, 9/7) miss the mark in assessing Ravalli County. The current civic leaders and legislators of Ravalli County have a track record of leadership […]

After reading a letter titled “Support for ‘Big Dave’ Smith” published in the Bitterroot Star on September 7, 2016, I feel compelled to respond to some inaccuracies regarding the floodplain. […]

By Bob Brown, Whitefish, former Montana Secretary of State and State Senate President   I am saddened to write this opinion piece, but after much thought, I must. In my […]

This is in response to Keith Kubista’s LTE on Sept 6, 2016. I realize the intent but his anti I-177 rant belongs in the entertainment section under ‘Fiction’. First, Kubista […]

Candidate Greg Gianforte publicly stated that the Montana Trap-Free Public Lands Initiative, I-177, is “an attempt by [environmental extremists] to take away not only our trapping rights, but also our […]