Opinion

Thursday morning, the Ravalli County commissioners agreed with planning board members Jan Wisniewski, Vito Ciliberti, Bill Menager and other appointees who hold Freeman/Posse Comitatus-style extremist views that it is proper […]

I recently had the pleasure of presenting three bicycles on behalf of the Masonic Lodge #43 to the winners of “bikes for books” program at Victor School. I was extremely […]

  I am writing this letter to express the deep regard my husband and I have for our volunteer fire department here in Florence. We had an incident here at […]

Florence is a community full of great people. We support civil discourse. Unfortunately, in the past several years a small pack of adult bullies have been terrorizing our school board […]

All young children in Ravalli County deserve the best that we can give them. Every year, we celebrate Week of the Young Child, which falls during the week of April […]

It is interesting to me that politics takes so much time and energy during election time. Is it really our duty to vote? Is it really making you feel like […]

  In June 2011 you published a picture of residents at Bitterroot Valley Living Center. When surfing the net I ran onto this picture and one named caught my attention […]

  By Anna Paige, Communications and Marketing Director, Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming would like to thank the more than 2,700 volunteers and […]

A growing threat to our freedom of speech is the attempt to stifle religious discussion in the name of preventing “defamation of” or “insults” to religion, especially Islam. A revival […]

The editorial put out by the Ravalli Republic newspaper states, “Several candidates have filed to run in the upcoming election to represent their precinct or state legislative districts as Democrats. […]

Thank you for reporting about the Ravalli County Planning Board’s recent meeting during which Shannon Plocher ignored the concerns of the County Attorney and county residents, and offered a prayer. […]

We, as taxpayers and residents of the Lone Rock Community Park District, are angered and appalled that our Lone Rock Community Park identity has been stripped and that our park […]

By Judy Hoy, Stevensville   Regarding Hamilton School Board’s consideration of providing special protection from bullying for LGBT students: No student, teacher or anyone else should be discriminated against or […]

  The claim from Van Keele that Obama has created about 3.5 million private sector jobs in less than two years is complete fiction. All of this stimulus money has […]

  Wow! Remember when the Pilgrims came to America?? Let’s see… Oh yeah, it was so that the freedom of Christians could be practiced. Strange, there wasn’t an Atheist, Moslem, […]

  To Royce Engstrom, President of The University of Montana: I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your press release on March 22nd wherein you announced closure […]

  I’ve been working on the railroad So are the Co. Commissioners, I’m told The Commissioners, Republican all, Want to make a winning call They want to do a railroad […]

Obamacare may or may not still be the law in 2013, depending on how the Supreme Court rules. There are many myths about Obamacare. One untruth relates to taxes. John […]

  The latest nonsense from the Tea Party about protection of the environment and all god’s creatures that Noah saved being a communist conspiracy confirms my suspicion that they have […]

  The article published on April 3 regarding six questionable candidates running for Democratic Precinct Captains perpetuated some confusion that continues to exist in Ravalli County regarding the Tea Party. […]