Opinion

By Susan McCreary, Stevensville In reply to letter of Hattie Farrell (Bitterroot Star, Nov. 14), I also attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I listened to […]

By Russ Lawrence, President, Bitterrooters for Planning   The recently-released report by UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research on “The Impact of Timber Harvest Declines on the Ravalli County […]

By Kirk Thompson, Stevensville   Recently the county commissioners paid $17,000 to the UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research to do a study of what the economy of the […]

By Ed Sperry, Stevensville   The Ravalli County Commissioners deserve a lot of credit for commissioning the report by the Bureau of Business and Economic research at the University of […]

By Bob Brown, Helena   Montana appears well down the road to becoming a one-party, Republican, deeply conservative state, like the states that surround us. Jon Tester’s survival was an […]

Star Editorial   The Stevensville Town Council, or at least two of its members, have appointed Jerry Phillips to fill the vacancy created when Raymond Smith resigned. Councilmembers Stacie Barker […]

By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville   Dale Burk was one of the first people I became acquainted with after I moved to the Bitterroot from Jacksonville, Florida, over eight years ago. […]

By Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis The majority of Montanans had the common sense to return Jon Tester to the senate. Good for us. All Montanans sleep safer tonight […]

By Mike Miller, Stevensville I saw this public Facebook post after the elections from a guy named Jim Skelton; it read: “Republicans lost the house last night. Today there are […]

By Carolyn Cook, Election Judge, Stevensville With all the negativity and animosity that surrounded the campaign, I was not looking forward to working as an election judge at the Stevensville Polling […]

By Hattie Farrell, Stevensville I attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I spoke at the meeting about Jim Crews being considered for the council as he […]

By Jerry Haslip, Victor Allen B. Gates wrote another verbose diatribe containing blistering commentary about President Trump’s leadership qualities, as contained in his November 7, 2018 letter in the Bitterroot […]

By Bruce King, Hamilton Recently I received a book from a friend who grew up in Denmark, and married an American in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Denmark. The […]

By David A. Merrick, Corvallis Once again, an election is over and once again, nothing will change. Neither Truth or Justice was an issue and hasn’t been for much of […]

By Charles Sleath, Hamilton   What kind of nation are we that we would rejoice in sending our sons and daughters in harm’s way? They go for the honor, and […]

By Peter Lethenstrom, Stevensville   Democracy dies in darkness… the Washington Post. What do you think?  

By Star Jameson, Hamilton I am deeply disturbed that the media refer to the thousands travelling north through Mexico from South America as “immigrants.” Is this some way of whitewashing […]

By Allen B. Gates, Stevensville America is divided by political polarization and cultural turmoil!   Not since the Civil War has there been such polarization and cultural turmoil. The causes […]

By Tom Ruffatto, Jim Lindquist and Bob Popham   We recommend voting for Bob Nelson and Jeff Mark for Bitterroot Conservation District Supervisor. Both are experienced incumbents with hundreds of applications/ permits […]

By Jim Kalkofen, Stevensville   In my opinion, with the strict adherence of Senator Tester to the Democrats’ Washington DC liberal party line and his “NO” vote on one of […]