Opinion

By George Corn, Hamilton Trump is the creature our country’s founders warned us about. A corrupt, immoral president conspiring with foreign powers for personal gain and soliciting foreign interference in our elections for his benefit. In the Constitution the founders placed every obstacle they could to oppose “cabal, intrigue, and corruption.” This is because they […]

By Mary Ann Eckroth, Mandan, North Dakota Rona (Veronica) Engelter was known as Miss E in Hamilton schools. Though she retired over 10 years ago from teaching, she was still a presence in the schools. She looked forward to spending time there as a substitute teacher. The Children were first in her mind. She worked to […]

By Tom Puchlerz, Stevensville I watched and listened in awe during my first year of hunting elk as a large bull screamed, nose flared, while he herded his cows from his bugling challenger. That was in 1979 and a lot has changed over the past 40 years.  Today elk are plentiful in places where they […]

By Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Should taxpayers and Ravalli County residents support a huge timber cut of approximately 150,000 acres? Wouldn’t you think the cut should be within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and not encroaching into roadless, proposed wilderness? The cut will be along the eastern face of the Bitterroot Range from Darby to Florence. Now ask yourself […]

By Jeff Lonn, Hamilton Bitterrooters from Hamilton to Victor should prepare to have their view of the Sapphire Mountains marred by Bitterroot National Forest’s Gold-Butterfly logging project. This enormous timber sale on the Sapphire front will commercially log over 8 square miles, create numerous clearcuts, and cut old growth. In recent newspaper articles, BNF did […]

By Dave Ward, Corvallis The old Chinese curse of “May you live in interesting times,” has certainly been playing out malignantly for the past 3 or 4 years. As a country, we have gone from being just loyal everyday Americans, to having to be either a MAGAot or a dirty lib, with no middle ground […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Paul Wheaton is “a giant doofus” (his words) in Missoula who was a brainy software engineer until he discovered “permaculture,” which for some years now has been the focus of his energy, to sometimes outrageous effect. I heartily recommend his hot-off-the-press book, “Building a Better World in Your Backyard Instead of […]

By Bob Williams, Stevensville What follows are gatherings of one person asleep at the switch, until Lavrov, Kislyak, and their recoding equipment got into our White House.  July 2016, the GOP approves a Paul Manafort promoted, new platform plank, with no USA financed weapons in Ukraine, against Putin’s continuing intrusions into Ukraine territory by Russian […]

By Janice Lee, President (for) Board of Directors, Ravalli County Recycling The board of Ravalli County Recycling (RCR) has made the difficult decision to permanently shutdown all operations, including drop-off days and pick-up services. Last date for any and all recycling services is Tuesday, December 31, 2019. Ravalli County Recycling was formed in 2010 by […]

By Jim Kelly, American Legion Fatality Marker Program Loss of life from a vehicle crash has a devastating impact on families and friends of the victim. A loved one is suddenly no longer with us. It has become a practice for people who have lost loved ones due to a fatal crash to express their grief […]

By Geoff Feiss, Montana Telecommunications Association The Missoulian recently published a Guest Opinion, titled “Lack of Internet Access is holding rural communities back.  Students, too.”   First, I have total respect for the guest writer who submitted the op-ed. And second, I am 100 percent in agreement with the guest writer’s underlying interest in facilitating access […]

By Rev. Kendra Wilde, President, Rev. Dr. Marc Stewart, President Elect, and Rev. Valerie Webster, Council Member, Montana Association of Christians What could be more important than how we care for our children? Pragmatists recognize that how we treat our children today in their dependency will shape how they treat us tomorrow in our old age. […]