Opinion

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 […]

Is running your air conditioner this summer too expensive? Is your electric bill cutting into your business profits? Ask former Congressman Hill (1997-2001) how he felt about his Republican friends […]

In response to an article from earlier this week (“Hill campaigns in Bitterroot”), I believe that Montanans can’t afford to elect Congressman Rick Hill as the next Governor of our […]

In Germany during the early 20’s, because of inflation, the saying, “It took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread” was coined. However, many people left […]

By Dan DePauw, Stevensville After a lengthy absence from attending Stevensville Town Council meetings, I was pleasantly surprised when I attended the July 12th meeting that it was no longer […]

By Jim Hamilton, Florence   The Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) near Stevensville avoided near disaster over the holiday weekend during this year’s Stevensville Summerfest. Event organizers contracted the […]

  I regret I was wrong. Two paid officers, 7 reserves, 3 Sheriff, and at least 1 State trooper, and a DUI task force. I am well aware of how […]

  The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare (mostly). Some complicated legalities, but, what else is new? I was interested in Romney’s “Repeal and Replace” response on the day of the decision. […]

Now that SCOTUS has decided what’s best for Montana (when it comes to controlling what money corporations can donate for political campaigns), I’ve decided that I will only allow information […]

  The Supreme Court is supposed to be non-political. However, you don’t have to be a constitutional law professor at Harvard, Michigan or Northwestern to quickly realize that the court […]

I have to respond to the letter by Kim French published on June 27, 2012. Ms. French is very misinformed on some of the topics that “disgust” her. Let me […]

I am really concerned about Representative Dennis Rehberg. I’m afraid his rough ride in the boat accident affected his memory on our border problems. Rep. Rehberg is sponsoring H.R. 1505, […]

To avoid confusion as to who paid for the recent two-page Big Game Forever (BGF) ad in the Ravalli Republic, let’s start with the fact that hunters in Montana have […]

  We seem to have a lot of people crawling out of the Eastern woodwork, swarming our beautiful valley to tell us how to best run our lives. From pastors […]

By Gene Mim Mack, Mayor of Stevensville Last week’s letter about the Reserve Officers and our Police Department caused me to realize that many in the community might not understand […]