Opinion

Nearly 7,000 Missoula citizens and students have signed petitions opposing the University of Montana’s plan to build a new Missoula College (former Missoula College of Technology) on its South Campus. […]

  Our government is rapidly approaching the “debt ceiling” and congressional action is required before it can be increased. If our country is to be saved from fiscal irresponsibility, House […]

By Dan Metully, Chairman, Lone Rock School Board of Trustees As a result of past community meetings in the winter of 2011, many great things got started, and though at […]

Open letter to Robert Ream, Chairman, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission: We understand that Defenders of Wildlife and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) are currently running a campaign against […]

By Dave Juday, Economist   President Obama’s re-election paves the way for him to actually pursue the “all of the above” energy strategy he has promised. After a series of […]

  It was intriguing to read the December 19, 2012 edition of the Bitterroot Star weekly as Carlotta Grandstaff wrote an article for the Rocky Mountain Labs and their work […]

  In a front page Ravalli Republic article (20dec12), Darby District Ranger, Chuck Oliver, was quoted as reporting that about six trappers had set 20 or more traps in the […]

After the horrific shootings in Connecticut, we all hope to find a way to prevent this tragedy from ever happening again. Right now—as in the past—many in our nation are […]

By John Bell, Hamilton I realize the election is over. My point is not to make a political stand. The shocking travesty to me was the widespread propaganda about those […]

  In the Dec. 12 edition, newly appointed state Senator Scott Boulanger is quoted as being “passionate for less government, lower taxes, capitalism and free market.” On the Tea Party […]

  We, the people of the ‘Wolves Of The Rockies’ organization support the recent decision to close all wolf hunting and trapping in two small but important geographic areas north […]

  I’ve got to take my hat off to Speaker Boehner for putting the tax cut/tax increase ball back into Obama’s court! Boehner pulled off one big STING operation on […]

  By Stewart Brandborg, Hamilton Conservationists and wilderness enthusiasts across America are mobilizing to defeat a bill passed by the House of Representatives in April that would eviscerate the 1964 […]

I will acknowledge that this letter is late in coming, and I will assure Mr. Fred Thomas that I meant no disrespect in waiting this long to congratulate him on […]

I see corporatism as capitalism run amok.  It has overtaken government.  It feeds on the concept of “profit” which, if uncontrolled and lacking in moral values, expands into greedy accumulation […]

  ‘Tis the season for Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, hum… So many folks are caught on the merry-go-round of life, continuing to hope that they don’ t weaken, falter, or […]

  Happiness abounds, I grin from ear to ear We’re at the end of the 2012 year. Now, at the end of December I think back how fast the year […]

By Terry Moran, PFLAG Hamilton-Bitterroot Chapter President   This fall a successful Pacific Northwest Regional PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Conference was hosted in Hamilton. I […]

By Cathy Scholtens and Becky Howard, Stevensville Currently, Montana is the only state in the entire contiguous United States that still allows trapping of wolverine. Biologists believe that there may […]

  Bitterness portrays a person or group of people as being harsh, hard to bear, showing intense hostility, intolerant. Perhaps those continuing to sling the words Racist, Bigot, Homophobe, Islamaphobe, […]