Opinion

1. Character – Pres. Obama is a statesman, reasoned, mature, optimistic, morally responsible, doesn’t kneejerk or saber-rattle, unflappable in the face of crisis, unfair slurs, and a deadlocked Congress. 2.  […]

Montana State Senator Bruce Tutvedt of Kalispell should stand up for the truth, not right wing blather. I fear he was intentionally misleading in his Ravalli Republic letter on 3/11/12. […]

  The Stevensville High School Art program would like to publicly acknowledge the River’s Mist Gallery in Stevensville, owned by Gretchen Spiess. Gretchen donated her gallery for the month of […]

By Brian McGregor, owner, Silver Dollar Saloon, Butte A guy walks into a bar and says, “ouch.” Now, you might be thinking that’s a really bad one-liner.  Actually, I was […]

In Jerry Haslip’s letter to the Star on 2/22/12 he listed 10 reasons NOT to vote for President Obama this November. After reading his “Top 10,” I believe he made […]

Calling sin, sin is not evil. If it is Jesus was the greatest evil. Throughout the ages leaders who call sin what it is generate a lot of hate and […]

  Boys Scouts of America is celebrating its 102nd birthday this month. In honor of this celebration, our Hamilton Troop #1976 wants to thank everybody in our community for their […]

  I was deeply troubled last week when I read an article that gave all the credit for the addition of the C-130H cargo planes to Montana’s Air National Guard […]

  Here are some of the inane lies people have told me and apparently tell themselves. Humans are not animals. Animals can’t think, reason or feel pain. Trapping is a […]

In the decades of time since my wife and I retired to this beautiful valley I have never experienced the uneasy impression the political leaders of our local county government […]

  Reduced spending, less regulations, and the free market are mainstays of many politicians. Eliminating programs that aren’t beneficial is logical. Unfortunately, many politicians are limited in their agenda for […]

  I recently attended the presentation on wolverines by Doug Chadwick in Hamilton. It was a standing room only crowd. I learned about wolverine biology, the rigors of scientific studies, […]

  Recently, the Leadership Institute at MSU Bozeman brought General Wesley Clark (Ret.) to speak and participate in a student panel discussion. General Clark’s focus was on economic growth and […]

Ravalli County like all of levels of government is looking for ways to reduce expenditures. There is one way the commissioners could contribute to reducing expenditures. They could give up […]

  In a previous letter I established the bible as the only reliable source of law. Now I am taking up the topic of the basis of punishment for the […]

  Political signs being stolen already?! As the political season begins, it seems as if the party of family values is stooping to sign removal. There are two candidates running […]

By John Cook, Stevensville Some of you may know me or my wife, Patricia. We’ve lived in Stevensville for almost twenty years. Brought our son up here, watched him marry […]

  Darby outfitter, Scott Boulanger, recently made a comment indicating that he wants a bounty placed on predators within Ravalli County and who do you think he wants to finance […]

  Has there ever been a bigger bunch of whiners than the wolf-haters of Ravalli County? Now they want to use a long-forgotten 1930s state law to force a bounty […]

  In a letter to the editor last week, Pat Connell recently climbed onto the Militia/Freeman county-supremacy scheme dubbed “coordination” last week with a veiled political threat to Fish Wildlife […]