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Backlash

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Parker, Stevensville There has been a major backlash of voters who have only a small amount of money to spare. It has added up to $52 million at this […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Dam safety issue

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Dallas Erickson, Stevensville As most of your readers know there has been some amazing weather around the world in recent months. In many areas they get their yearly rainfall in […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Ask your doctor if political ads are good for your health

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Jim Hamilton, Florence I’d like to comment on the unrestrained pharmaceutical and political promotions that currently appear on TV all day and night. I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Unions maintain middle-class prosperity

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Evan Schroedel, Florence I am hoping that by now people know that I was a railroad engineer and proud member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers union, the oldest labor […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Montana values

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Scott and Donna Fisher, Stevensville Montanans say they value honesty, integrity, loyalty, and fairness. How does Donald Trump’s character stack up against those values? He violated his oath to uphold […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Urgent call to action for Republicans

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Helen Sabin, Corvallis The Republican Party in the valley is under siege, and our cherished principles are at risk due to the mismanagement and destructive actions of the Ravalli County […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Organize against chemicals

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Roger Mitchell, Stevensville Two months ago, on April 24, Laura Garber, Hamilton, published a Letter to the Editor in the Bitterroot Star about airplanes spewing chemicals (chemtrails) across the sky. […]

Filed Under: Opinion

The truth behind the lies

July 2, 2024 by Guest Post

by Joe Tydall, Missoula After seven decades on the planet, I can confirm that people lie. To make matters worse, both lying frequency and severity have escalated in recent years, largely […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Riding for the brand

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Emma Lou Elliott, Stevensville Riding for the brand: Is this life, or what? Folks out West surely do know what riding for the brand means. It is forever simple and […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Gas up, folks

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Bill Cavanaugh, Corvallis Let’s make a conservative estimate on gas usage and say that you fill up with 20 gallons every 10 days. Under Joe Biden, gas has been on […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Winning

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Every couple months we receive a sort of newsletter from Hillsdale College, an avowedly conservative college in Michigan. Being a sort of college type myself, I was […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Hypocrisy

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by James K. Rummell, Corvallis    Will the hypocrisy of the Dems ever cease? Really, Mr. Tunny? Trump a convicted rapist? After over 30 years of not saying a thing about […]

Filed Under: Opinion

War against evil

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Parker, Stevensville This is a war for freedom in America. This is not just a war against liberals, wokism, Democrats, Marxists, globalits. It is a spiritual war against evil. […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Reacting vs. responding

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Hulse, Hamilton Much of the last four years has been spent reacting to the fraud of 2020. The Election Integrity movement is seeking out all the wrong-doing in past […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Montanans want politics-free judiciary

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Pat Earnest, Stevensville The recent attention on out-of-state, partisan funding of the Montana Supreme Court races by national Democratic Party groups is a serious concern that completely disregards the nonpartisan […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Democracy is bipartisan

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Linda McCulloch (D), former MT Secretary of State & Bob Brown (R), former MT  Secretary of State Having proudly served as former Secretaries of State in Montana, we understand how important democracy […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Recovering the Republican Party

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Susan McCreary, Stevensville When I was nominated and voted into the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee (RCRCC) in about 2017-2018, there were older Voting Precinct people who had served 20 […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Four-way stop

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Lance Broshar, Stevensville It amazes me that drivers in Stevensville constantly do a rolling stop or just flat out drive through the stop sign at Main & 3rd. We have […]

Filed Under: Opinion

No honor in Manzella’s victory 

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Margaret Gorski, Stevensville Turnaround is fair play. Just as Trump supporters believe he didn’t lose the 2020 election, I don’t believe that Wayne Rusk lost his primary bid for SD […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Thank you

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Greg Overstreet, candidate for HD 88, Stevensville Thank you to the primary voters of Legislative District 88 (Stevensville and Florence) for my 54% victory in the June 4th primary.  As […]

Filed Under: Opinion

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