Opinion

As the President of the ASUM, it is my privilege and responsibility to represent over 11,000 students of the University of Montana. Unfortunately, the fight for affordable, accessible higher education […]

Recently Senator Tester introduced a bill to insure the agreements reached by the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project (BCSP) will be achieved. This includes developing a 10-year schedule of forest restoration […]

Whoa! Did I read Senator Fred Thomas’ editorial right? Does he really have the nerve to advance giving my national public lands to the states so the land and its […]

Breitbart has tipped the balance scale. Listing seven reasons TrumpCare is no good. Now people know TrumpCare would stick the average Montanan with $3,600 more annual ACA premium. And transfer […]

By State Senator Fred Thomas, Majority Leader, Republican, Stevensville Montana is blessed with vast landscapes of public lands. Our great outdoors attracts millions of visitors each year and is part […]

It’s hard to ignore the economic circumstances of those who work for minimum wage in a community like the Bitterroot Valley. Vacant mini-malls and empty downtown storefronts prove many local […]

As many of you know this 65th legislative session has a very tight budget. State overspending and declining natural resource prices have hurt our state’s financial health. When money gets […]

Well, the special election to replace Ryan Zinke in the U.S. House of Representatives is finally set and it sure didn’t take long for the winning candidates to go after […]

I am the son of German immigrants who left Germany for America in 1929. The economic situation in Germany at the time was catastrophic. They came separately from Germany and […]

Let’s see, so far the Trump and Republican agenda includes massively increasing our military spending (so they can kill more people), gutting the EPA and environmental regulations (so the rich […]

Fascinating article and report blaming Amazon for “stifling competition, eroding jobs, and threatening communities.” That’s a pretty big accusation. Are those things really attributable to Amazon? I have never found […]

The special election to select a new Congressman for Montana is less than 80 days away and the process for conducting the election has been turned into a political football. […]

The Mayor and the City Council are endangering public safety by moving fire protection money from the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department to build a “Justice Center” on the Armory property. […]

What is the absolute best way to tell a lie? Take a truth and twist it until it bleeds. Repeat as necessary, until other people start repeating the twist, as […]

Here we go again. We just finished another election cycle in November with all the negative attack ads appearing on our local TV channels. Just like a bad penny, they […]

I was in the Air Force a long time ago, in the weather section. I chuckle at some of the similarities to a weather forecast and a legislative update…. for […]

By Regina Plettenberg, Ravalli County Election Administrator and President of Montana Association of Clerk & Recorders   Many letters and opinions have been written about running the upcoming May 25th […]

A pro-Israel bill moving through the Montana Legislature (House Bill 501) would ban Montanans from doing business with companies supporting the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, which is working to […]

I was moved by the letter written by Dallas Erickson (2-22-17) regarding the two dams south of the valley. I would like to see a response in the very near […]

Springtime is near and soon children and families will be headed to Claudia Driscoll Park to play at Canyon Hideaway, climb on that tank in front of the National Guard […]