Opinion

By Heidi Stahl, Engel & Volkers Western Frontier, Stevensville Let me introduce myself. I am a local real estate broker based here in Stevensville. I am also a VA recognized caregiver for […]

By Anne Millbrooke, Bozeman The Bozeman Municipal Watershed logging project, the South Plateau Landscape logging project near West Yellowstone, and other plans to log public lands in Montana ignore the scientific […]

By Edward Sperry, Col USAF (ret), Stevensville I’m 92; an old veteran. Occasionally it is natural to look back and look at current events through the lens of experience. This letter […]

By Henry Fowler, Stevensville As with previous causes célèbres, when the facts come out, the lies of Black Lives Matter and its enablers are shattered. The newly-leaked police body camera footage […]

By Dee Gibney, Hamilton You seem to be down on capitalism, and if you are not for it, you must be in favor of socialism. This is why capitalism works, […]

By Dale Burk, Stevensville In coming to the task of writing a commentary about my late friend, the conservation giant Jim Posewitz, one’s thoughts are immediately hamstrung by the fact […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Time for me to again express my opinion on the current state of national affairs. First, it should be obvious to anyone willing to view current events […]

By Mark Brown, Stevensville Open letter to America, via Montana: A quote from John F. Kennedy’s book, “Profiles in Courage”: “In a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his politics, ‘holds office’; […]

By Daniel Rogers, Hamilton Why do you publish opinion letters that are so obviously false? Do some research before publishing this nonsense. You recently published a rant by someone who opposed […]

By Ray Niesslein, Stevensville Let’s vote for the candidate who shows up to work for our Stevensville community – Margaret Gorski for SD 44. 25 years ago, when I made my […]

By TC Richardson, TC’s RV Service, Stevensville I feel badly that I have never met my mayor, Brandon Dewey. Not that I haven’t tried. I have met my Ravalli County Commissioners, our […]

By Tony and Lynell Norman, Stevensville We have been advised by California developers that they have purchased 57 acres of land adjacent to Creekside Meadow, Logan Lane and the Middle Burnt […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton In 1860, Trump would have been a Democrat. So would McConnell, Daines, Gianforte, etc., because then cotton was “king” and most men after big money wanted to […]

By Teresa Larsen, Victor I would like to thank Dennis Hicks for his thoughtful letter in the August 12, 2020 issue of the Bitterroot Star largely addressing the issue of abortion. […]

By Ed Sperry Col USAF (ret), Stevensville I’m an old veteran and I’m flat angry. Stevenville’s newest realtor with offices across the street from the Forest Service Office has managed to […]

By Bruce Weide, Hamilton While getting blood drawn I spoke with a Hamilton nurse about the efficacy of wearing a face-mask during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The nurse wore a face-mask […]

By Tom Tunny, Hamilton The contested election in the Eastern European country of Belarus has been in the news recently. I would like to give my perspective on this important […]

By Doug Bohn, Victor After attending multiple County Commissioner meetings recently about “mail-in ballots,” it has become blatantly evident that there are vast misunderstandings on both sides of the aisle about […]

By Laura Garber, Hamilton Why is most of the regular grocery store and restaurant food in the United States doused in chemicals, lacking nutritional value, and transported from an average […]

By Jim Kalkofen, Stevensville The concept of holding public meetings that are for the most part CLOSED MEETINGS must be changed.   The reason to continue keeping the public at arm’s […]