Guest Post

by Chad Miller, Florence The recent opinion piece titled “USCM wants a handout” paints a dramatic picture of the proposed Sheep Creek critical minerals project. Unfortunately, it does so by […]

by Jane Lambert, Stevensville Dear Dana Henricks, Your belated response to my simple question from last September really amuses me. All I asked was for the Democratic game plan to […]

by Shawn Wathen, Hamilton It has been a while since I have written. Not because you have actually acted in a manner consistent with your job description as a legislator, […]

by Ruth Hazelton, Hamilton Senator Daines, I did not hear you speak publicly to your president, urging him to go to Congress for permission to bomb the capital city of […]

byBig Corral Park Supporters: Paula English Carney, Brian Wrede, Clay Moore, Jeff Jones To the Citizens of the Bitterroot Valley, the Ravalli County Commissioners, and the Ravalli County Park Board: […]

by Gail Goheen, Corvallis A hearing held in Montana U.S. District Court (Missoula) last month considered challenges to the Forest Service (FS) proceeding with its planned Gold Butterfly (GB) logging […]

by Tom Tunny, Hamilton “The quality of being naïve; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment; innocence or unsophistication.” Some people consider a naïve person to be endearing, cute or innocent. […]

by Paul E. Roege, P.E., Corvallis Having been involved in both national security and technology development aspects of critical materials for years, I was nevertheless only vaguely aware of the […]

by Richard Parker, Stevensville Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Keith Ellison (AG) and Mayor Frey of Minneapolis were at the very least complicit with all the Somali fraud in Minnesota. […]

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville The last several “Letters to the Editor” pages have been filled with liberal lies and half-truths. The underlying motivation for these writers is TDS (Trump Derangement […]

by Larry Keogh, Hamilton Congressman Zinke, I received a survey from your office Tuesday. The survey does not allow me to share my view(s), the survey only provides opportunity to […]

by Archie L. Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis A political silence colder than a normal winter has settled across Montana. Where is the governor, Montana Senate and House leadership, the […]

by Charles Sleath, Hamilton The Trump administration is bragging about saving billions of dollars by eliminating government agencies and laying workers off, in order to eliminate waste and fraud. I […]

by Dana Henricks, Florence Dear Jane Lambert, This letter has been a very, very long time in coming. Sorry for the delay, but I have been mulling over your two […]

by Sheryl Olson, Hamilton Once again, thank you Bitterroot Star for keeping us updated on the current developments on the Sheep Creek Mine. Your investigative reporting and the clear presentation […]

by DW Shumway, Stevensville Fellow restless Americans! I have a solution: Let’s give actual representative government a try and see if the electorate can’t do better than the donor-compromised, lobby-compromised, […]

by Wes Wells, Department Chair, Stevensville HS Social Studies On behalf of the students and Social Studies staff of Stevensville High School, I would like to extend our appreciation to […]

by Archie L. Thomas, Corvallis I have never witnessed a greater lost listening opportunity than by Representative Zinke’s delegation during the 1/28/26 commissioners’ meeting. The disregard for public input or […]

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville I’ve been in three recent hacks of my personal information, and recently I read in the Montana Free Press it happened again through Christi Jacobsen, our […]

by Tom Tunny, Hamilton This past Thursday, Republican leader of the Senate, John Thune, said that if the Democrats do not come to an agreement with the Republicans on funding […]