Opinion

By Marilyn Saunders, Board Member, Bitterrooters for Planning   No one is making any more wilderness but our county commissioners must think wilderness is limitless and exploitable based on their […]

To my amazement, two of the leading legislators responsible for drastically cutting the 2018-19 Biennium budget for the senior, long term care, mental health, and addictive disorders services of the […]

Gun deaths, police violence, and global warming are epidemics, solvable with commitment, ingenuity, and cooperation. Unfortunately, as long as Republicans stand in the way, solutions to those problems will remain […]

Fall has arrived and so has the blame game for wildfires. Never mind that for thousands of years, fire has created healthy forests and diverse habitats. It, like snow, is […]

By State Representative Ed Greef, HD 88, Florence   Sad news for the citizens of Ravalli County as the decision to close the Bitterroot Job Service office would seem to […]

Montanans need only to look at the front page of any statewide paper or turn on the local evening news to know that our state is experiencing a budget deficit […]

The monthly magazine of the MT Electric Cooperatives’ Association has a space for Viewpoint by the CEO. There is no place for members to express their views and I have […]

When times are tough, Montanans rise to the challenge. That’s what we do.   And that’s been the case during a difficult wildfire season that has touched all corners of […]

Stories… I read the paper, look at facebook posts and hear people talk. Almost everything is a story, a perspective from someone’s head, a possible myth we tell ourselves about […]

I have followed with interest the letters and editorials generated by the current fire season. The wild card which current forest policy hasn’t addressed is “smoke.” I’m hearing that people […]

Being part of a family means accepting certain changes to how we conduct our affairs in life. Parents, siblings, in-laws, etc must be dealt with in a fashion that not […]

  Too many Montana citizens are suffering miserably from the numerous fires and toxic smoke created by a broken policy system that allows degradation to the human environment. This lingering […]

  It has been a long and challenging fire season here in Montana. Our friends, family members, and neighbors have lost their homes, livestock, forage, and critical infrastructure. And above […]

  For over a week I have had firefighters telling me that a longtime plan has been to burn Bass Creek towards the old Kootenai burn for fire management purposes. […]

To start I want to thank the following people. Jerry Haslip for his intelligent response to Obama is a Muslim, Dallas Erickson for being right – we do need to […]

    We are living through an unprecedented fire season and editorial pages are overloaded with comments. Although many express appreciation, regrettably they are overshadowed by those that are negative, […]

  The people of Stevensville owe a big debt of gratitude to Mayor Jim Crews and members of the city council for finding a solution to the river access issue. […]

By Gary Milner, Corvallis   Dee Gibney’s comments about the Civil War need addressing. She states “… the Civil War was not about slavery, it was about the South gaining […]

Facts are out of style, I know. That is not new regarding forest fires. Smokey the Bear started saying “only you can prevent forest fires” over fifty years ago, and […]

I trust Trump.   I trust Trump to be exactly as he has repeatedly shown himself to be.   The thing about trust is that it doesn’t work very well […]