Opinion

  Should we have three commissioners or five? The real question is, should we let the people decide? If we look carefully at the events since the last people’s decision […]

  There are too many people on the dole in too many solidly blue American states. A conservative’s chances of getting the electoral college majority in those solidly blue states […]

  The time has come once again to replenish our hay supply for fall and winter to feed our 60+ llamas and alpacas. If you have a good grass or […]

  Sometimes the important things get lost in a campaign. “Issues” are easily manipulated by the press or partisans. For 41 years I was associated with the American Legion Montana […]

  In 1938, Austria was conned by Adolph Hitler into believing that if you voted for the National Socialist Party to run your country every problem would be solved. In […]

  For a good number of years, I was a banker here in Montana. If you were to go any bank and asked for a $100 withdrawal, the first thing […]

By Pat Williams, Missoula Montana is a composite; its identity defined by the beholder. The journalist Joe Howard saw it as “high, wide, and handsome;” the historian Harry Fritz as […]

  This is written in response to “Extreme ties that bind.” Once again LaCroix is looking for vampires and boogiemen in mirrors ready to jump out that aren’t there. Jeff […]

  Having gathered the required signatures to file for office, I am now an official candidate for County Commissioner, District 4. I am very grateful to all my supporters that […]

  The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce supported the last increase in the federal minimum wage on July 2009 and we believe another raise is overdue. The business owners I […]

In 1942, the quick and effective response of the U.S. military seemed almost miraculous in light of the beating it had taken at Pearl Harbor. Defeating Japan depended on an […]

By Jane Lambert, Stevensville   This letter is several weeks late, as the Hoary Alyssum is now in full flower, full of seeds, and should have been pulled or sprayed […]

In the guest column in the Missoulian on Wednesday, July 18, Mark Holyoak, Public Relations Director for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, espoused the benefits of trapping as a ‘management […]

We should be thrilled to have great people like Charles Schwab, and a bunch of other billionaires in our mist. Just look at the great thing Mr. Schwab is doing, […]

As our tenth annual All Class Reunion took place June 30, 2012 in the old high school gym, it would be a good time to say thank you to the […]

  President Obama, on 14 July 2012, said, “If you got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Any United States of America (USA) President obviously […]

This letter is to share information. I recently watched a segment on C-Span 2’s Book TV Show that featured the author, Jonathan Gruber, Professor of Economics at MIT. The name […]

  This letter is to honor and thank all, each and every hand, that provides this community with “The Clothes Closet” and “Food Bank.” In our time of a depressed […]

By Van P. Keele, Hamilton Obamacare is law. The conservative US Supreme Court recently ruled that Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) is in fact constitutional. Despite tens of millions of […]

This is in regards to the condition of the Stevensville Riverside Cemetery. Shame on whoever put Roundup around every headstone. That was pure laziness. Between the gopher holes and the […]