Opinion

The Department of Health & Human Services, the largest state agency, has a budget of almost $4 billion. DPHHS is in charge of everything from welfare programs to Child Protective […]

The GFWC Bitterroot Woman’s Club wishes to thank all those involved in the recent fall scholarship fundraiser at the Higher Ground Brewery. Auction and raffle items were donated by merchants, […]

For me trapping is a nightmare. That is why I volunteer to collect signatures to get Initiative 177 on the ballot for Montanans to decide if trapping should continue on […]

By TC Richardson, Stevensville I never thought I’d be confessing my stupidity in the newspapers, but I just found out that I am suing myself and am likely to pay […]

Ordinarily I do not participate in the ‘Letter to the Editor’ arena as I find some of the persons occupying the fringe seats irrational and unable to accept other points […]

When a couple ranchers face the death penalty for accidentally burning 140 acres of public land, but federal bureaucrats burn thousands of acres of public — and even private land […]

By now the whole world knows about the armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Malheur is a beautiful and very popular recreational area near the rural town of Burns, […]

America needs and deserves Presidential honesty, integrity, maturity, competence, transformative leadership, and efficient and effective management! In short, governance that serves the common good, not the left or the right, […]

By Edward Monnig, Missoula In preface to commenting on Stewart Brandborg’s opinion piece on wilderness issues (December 16), I would like to acknowledge with gratitude the service that he and […]

Over the last few weeks, we have watched a gang of self-styled revolutionaries take over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. In addition to trespassing on public lands, these […]

I have to say that week after week, it’s getting a bit tiresome to read the diatribe of a certain contributor to your editorial section slamming liberals. Personally, I could […]

Good local government necessarily requires an informed and knowledgeable electorate. To this end the efforts of the Local Government Study Commission should be focused on what provides adequate and easily […]

Thank you, Jerry Haslip, for your comment that conservatives think liberals have their heads in the sand and a tendency to think the sky is falling. Liberals probably feel exactly […]

Anyone believing that bringing Muslims into this country is a good idea isn’t looking at what’s happening in Europe. Europeans are horrified at rapes occurring by Muslim men against innocent […]

By Claire Kelly, Stevensville It is past time to put ‘Christ’ back into ‘Christian’. In four weeks, 2016 voting will commence with the Iowa Caucuses. News pundits predict Senator Ted […]

The Florence Civic Club thanks the many volunteers and anonymous gifting angels for their support in making the 2015 Share Tree and Toys for Tots projects successful again. In this […]

Never underestimate a liberal’s inability to rationalize, or their demonstrated ability to write volumes about inconsequential facts! Even when confronted by evidence that global cooling is not man caused, a […]

The Ladies of the American Legion Auxiliary Ravalli Unit 47 would like to say thank you to the following people who made decorating the cemetery in honor of our Veterans […]

As I’m watching Republicans and gun rights activists do their usual whiny crybaby dance, because President Obama took a reasonable step to protect human lives, I can’t help wonder why […]

After hearing and reading that our ‘supposed representatives’ of this Ravalli County, the Commissioners, all five of them, once again voted to cost us taxpayers more money, I had to […]