Opinion

  Dang it! As a socialist “environmentalist,” I was most upset to see that our local planning board has discovered our plot for world domination. (Agenda 21 one world plan […]

  Obama has been endorsed yet again by the Communist Party USA. FYI, the Democratic Party stole the entire CPUSA platform during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s ascendancy and re-branded it […]

First, I would like to express my gratitude to Van P. Keele for giving me such an excellent opportunity to expose his fallacious, delusional, rambling distortion of political reality in […]

  The discussion by Insurance Commissioner, Monica Lindeen, in the guest column of the March 23 Missoulian supporting the Affordable Care Act caught my attention. As a subscriber to an […]

  By Gary MacLaren, Representative HD 89 This last week The US Supreme Court heard arguments on four different lawsuits regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA.  […]

I think we all owe a thank you to the Howells for their willingness to publish controversial letters in the Star newspaper. I am sure they both disagree with most […]

  Our government, national and state legislatures, have a paternalistic attitude toward we the people. They treat us like little children who are incapable of ever making valid decisions about […]

  After reading Hazel A. Smith’s 3/21/2012 letter in the Star, I felt it necessary to comment. Should Obama say that he was the first person to set foot on […]

  “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15). Thus God states in the 8th commandment that theft is wrong. But what is theft? All can agree that theft is taking something […]

  It’s hard to form a response to the level that county politics/government has reached. Regarding the recent goings on with the Commissioners and the Planning Board, it appears any […]

By Bill LaCroix, Victor At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 there were a little over 800 anti-government “patriot/ militia” groups in the U.S., who defined themselves […]

By Elliott Oppenheim, Lolo I note with interest that the Planning Board did not approve prayer prior to its meetings. Phyllis Bookbinder’s view is upheld and sound and well reasoned. […]

  Well, Hallelujah! Seven uber conservatives, after helping to engineer the takeover of the Republican Party in Ravalli County, have filed to become precinct committee men or women for the […]

  The Ogallala Aquifer isn’t worth fighting over. Agricultural poisons long ago tainted the ground and drinking water. People don’t even taste it anymore; they’ve adapted. Rain, nor snow, nor […]

  A recent article by Charles S. Johnson stated that Secretary of State Linda McCulloch is going to decide whether or not to allow a primary ballot for the Libertarian […]

At long last we have started the recycling of cardboard from our Old Corvallis Road site. After more than a year of delays, the grant money to purchase a recycling […]

  I read with interest the recent article about beavers  (Castor canadensis) damaging trees in the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. I would like to take a moment and point […]

Gas prices are rising at the pump and becoming the center of our national focus. Who gets credit for this unwelcome news? Suspects include Iran, the Straits of Hormuz, and […]

I am moved by Warren ‘Dite’ Little’s letter in the Missoulian, March 12, 2012. As a parent who has had her own son die before his time, I share some […]

I’m a natural skeptic. Always have been. As a child of the Depression and now a great grandmother, I’ve always been one to question and demand facts when things seem […]