Opinion

  When I read the headline of Mr. Fowler’s letter, “Democracy in danger,” my very first thought was: I certainly hope so! His evaluation of the MSM misrepresentation of the […]

By Tim Peterson, Corvallis The Bitterroot Valley has been a difficult place to eke out an existence for 10,000 years. The Salish Indians traveled a network of trails that spread […]

By Dennis Hicks, Hamilton One largely reveals their own character by the friends they choose and their associations. The wisest man who ever lived said, “He who walks with wise […]

By Amy Knight, Stevensville Re: Astonishing report in the Bitterroot Star regarding Stevensville council members Bob Michalson and Stacie Barker. Among other things reported, they would like to abolish the […]

By Jerry Haslip, Victor Bill Jones’ letter in the Bitterroot Star, written in such a glib manner, was amusing for conservatives who believe in supported factual evidence! Apparently, Jones is […]

By Frank Novotny, Victor   To answer Mr. Jones, I am heartened that he recognizes that I am well informed, but, I must say that I do not advocate summary […]

By Star Jameson, Hamilton The new legislature in Montana is hard at work focusing on vital issues to our State. A few individuals are hard at work threatening end-of-life options […]

By Edward Sperry, Col USAF (RET), Stevensville      Congress is starting up again. I think all of us (Democrat, Republican and whatever) hope that they may manage to do something […]

By Henry Fowler, Stevensville   There has been no better proof of the bias and corruption of the “fake news” mainstream media (MSM) than the recent controversy concerning high school […]

By Laurie Ruffner, Hamilton   I’d like to start out by praising Mary Fahnestock-Thomas for her letter to you in last week’s Letters. I think she made some excellent points […]

By Archie L. Thomas, Corvallis In response to your government shut down letter dated 1/15/2019. You forgoing one month of your $174,000 congressional salary amounts to about .059% of your […]

By Dan Rothlisberger, Hamilton I recently read an article written by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) national commander who asked: “Who will fill our shoes?” or put another way, […]

By Stephanie Mapelli, Stevensville My dog and I walked to River Park along the path mid-day this past Saturday. West of the entrance to the Fort Owen Ranch there was […]

By Bill Jones, Stevensville On January 16, I was amused to read another few letters from our well-informed neighbors Novotny and Gibney. I suppose they could believe they are just […]

By Champ Edmunds, former legislator, Navy Submarine Veteran, Missoula   The 66th Legislative Session is upon us, and a new group of men and women has been sworn into office […]

By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton My husband went to the Performing Arts Series last night to hear Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite on guitar and harmonica and enjoyed it, but he’s […]

By Frank Novotny, Victor I consider Mr. Sikorski’s letter, “The worst crime”, to be the equivalent of a very large cow pie. First, President Trump cannot be corrupt since he […]

By Charles Sleath, Hamilton Has anyone given any thought as to why Trump is obsessed with get $5.7 billion for a wall? Could it be that he needs the money […]

By Dee Gibney, Hamilton This is in response to “The Worst Crime” (Star Letters, 1/9/19). I find Sikorski’s statements about President Trump without evidence and the things he cited have […]

By Montana Senate Democratic Minority Leader Jon Sesso (Butte),  and Democratic Minority Whips JP Pomnichowski (Bozeman) and Margie MacDonald (Billings) The 66thMontana Legislative Session began January 7th and based on […]