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A clean slate for Montana Democrats

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Jesse Mullen, Deer Lodge Montana Democrats face a rare opportunity: a complete reset. After years of decline, culminating in the 2024 election, the party is rudderless. There’s a chance […]

Filed Under: Opinion

American consumers lose protections

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now shuttered.  Approved by Congress in 2011 in response to the 2007-08 financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression,the […]

Filed Under: Opinion

America’s greatness on chopping block

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Lorie Ortiz, Darby We did not elect a president to the White House. The person that received that honor is a petulant, six year old, hydrophobic, frothing at the […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Trump should be applauded

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Wow! The liberals are going nuts over what President Trump is doing – hundreds of Presidential orders to implement his campaign promises. What is happening is […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Not even a peep

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Thomas Tunny, Hamilton Peep – peep, peep – peep, peep – peep… I don’t hear a peep out of any of our four Republican congressional members about what is […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Message for Republican voters

February 12, 2025 by Guest Post

by Dana Henricks, Florence  We need your help. Big time. Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy, Ryan Zinke, and Greg Gianforte don’t give a rat’s butt about what we Montana Democrats think […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Fire fuels management

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Skip Kowalski & Kirk Thompson, Co-chairs, BFC Recently, there was a LTE in the Star about the forest fire threat on the west side of the valley, lamenting the […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Thank you, Victor School

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Jean Schurman, Class of 1972, Victor Last week I had the pleasure of judging students involved in the Victor History Day. The theme of the projects was Rights and […]

Filed Under: Opinion

A thank you

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Grace Wilson, Stevensville A huge thank you to the person who turned in the billfold they found in the BJ’s parking lot on January 24. Your honesty is much […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Housing shortage solution

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Archie L. Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis A solution to the housing shortage in Ravalli county may be in sight. The Office of Management and Budget sent buy out […]

Filed Under: Opinion

School bond/taxes

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Deborah Mason, Hamilton Was I reading this right? After all this talk about lowering our property taxes, I read that the Hamilton School District wants to try another bond […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Long live the king

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Don Gardner, Corvallis Hear ye, all who dwell in the Kingdom of America. Laws of the land are hereby changed. By proclamation of the king, all who reside in […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Musk is dangerous

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire immigrant from South Africa and yet he was illegally given recent access to the $6 trillion US Treasury Payment System […]

Filed Under: Opinion

2nd Amendment case

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Glenn Ferren, St. Regis There is a Second Amendment case in Montana you should pay attention to. The second amendment question in this case, can you use a firearm […]

Filed Under: Opinion

The Trump Effect

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis  To all those who proudly voted for Trump, a heads-up. Already people in the Valley are losing jobs due to his Executive Orders. Others are already […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Report from the House

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Rep. David Bedey, HD 86, Hamilton The first three weeks of the legislative session have gone by. As of January 24th, one hundred and fifty three  bills have passed […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Election travesty

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by J. Ward, Lolo People that volunteer to work the polls for elections are doing their civic duty – pride in performance. Who wins and who loses an election is […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Why I won’t keep my pay raise

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Rep. Greg Overstreet, HD-88, Stevensville I wanted to explain to readers a vote I took in the Montana House of Representatives because it shows some trickery that none of […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Lesson from California

January 21, 2025 by Guest Post

by Ed Sperry, Col USAF (ret), Stevensville As I am writing, fires are raging in LA. Years of failure to manage the forests of California finally resulted in disaster. Ask […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Treasury as a campaign fund source?

January 21, 2025 by Guest Post

by Bill Jones, Stevensville Wouldn’t it be interesting if the Office of Management and Budget could calculate the fraction of what the multimillionaires have thrown at Trumpism was in comparison […]

Filed Under: Opinion

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