Opinion

by Kathy Love, Republican candidate for HD 85, Hamilton In response to your emails and recent letters to the editor:  You may find it comforting that in all the talks I’ve given […]

by Jeffrey Taylor, Hamilton The novelist John Steinbeck said that he admired other states, but he loved Montana. As a resident of ten winters, descendant of all-weather Black Irish pioneers who […]

by Teresa Larsen, Victor Firstly, if you made it through Cindi Schwartz letter on the Opinion page of the January 31, 2024, edition of the Star—congratulations. Secondly, her numbers just don’t […]

by John Grant, Hamilton Our County Commissioners are to be commended for how they dealt with, head on, a national campaign to question the integrity of County election systems and by […]

by Jill Deppel, Hamilton Ravalli County is experiencing a housing crisis. This crisis is characterized by a lack of affordable housing options for many residents, along with rising housing costs that […]

by Wayne Adair, Hamilton Anyone blessed with the ability to read and comprehend a newspaper or has the intellectual capacity to understand a news broadcast knows the 2020 presidential election was […]

by Diane Thomas-Rupert, Stevensville Long “letters to the editor” don’t tend to interest me. I usually read the first sentence or paragraph and I am done. Not so with this letter, […]

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville There is no emergency in the county’s election process requiring change and Regina Plettenberg, County Clerk and Recorder, has managed an efficient election process for years. There […]

by Doug Bohn, Victor I attended the referenced meeting unlike Ms. Binkley, therefore I must correct the record.  Ms. Binkley states “Ms. Love made the false and baseless assertion…” This statement […]

by Susan Devlin, Stevensville Did you know that Stevensville was without any police force at all from 2/9/24 until the new police chief was sworn in on February 14th? And […]

by J. Ward, Lolo A stroll down memory lane! Former president Trump interfered in Israel and Palestine. Remember when he made it his mission to give Jerusalem to Israel? Now, Netanyahu […]

by Wayne Adair, Hamilton Anyone blessed with the ability to read and comprehend a newspaper or has the intellectual capacity to understand a news broadcast knows the 2020 presidential election was […]

by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton I was … surprised … when, at the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary on January 23rd, Tim Scott from South Carolina, who had dropped out of the […]

by Paul Kink, Stevensville My father was born on a small farm in Munich, Germany in 1913. He recalled that in the first democratic elections after World War I, that […]

by John Grant, Hamilton Steve Bannon has transformed the Republican Party into the Donner Party. Featured Menu: Braised Maryland Matt simmered in Wuhan Bat Wing Stock. Paired with Coal Slurry […]

by Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis “Just say NO!” Nancy Reagan’s antiquated 1980’s answer to sex is the only way forward for Montana voters, Republican candidates and office holders. This […]

by Jim Hamilton, Florence Wow and Holy Baltimore Oriole, Batman! What just happened in our beautiful Big Sky Country state? Well, I’ll tell you. Dryland Eastern Montana rancher Maryland Matt Rosendale […]

by Margaret Gorski, Stevensville Senator Theresa Manzella, there you go again! For the umpteenth time you are urging the Ravalli County Commissioners to pass a resolution to hand count ballots in […]

by John Grant, Hamilton Ask any member of the John Birch wing of the Republican Party their biggest complaint of Joe Biden, and while the list is long, the BORDER is […]

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Thought I should pass on a few of the February 2, 2024 headlines in case any of our readers missed them: Invasion at the southern border continues. […]