Opinion

All young children in Ravalli County deserve the best that we can give them. Every year, we celebrate Week of the Young Child, which falls during the week of April […]

It is interesting to me that politics takes so much time and energy during election time. Is it really our duty to vote? Is it really making you feel like […]

  In June 2011 you published a picture of residents at Bitterroot Valley Living Center. When surfing the net I ran onto this picture and one named caught my attention […]

  By Anna Paige, Communications and Marketing Director, Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming would like to thank the more than 2,700 volunteers and […]

A growing threat to our freedom of speech is the attempt to stifle religious discussion in the name of preventing “defamation of” or “insults” to religion, especially Islam. A revival […]

The editorial put out by the Ravalli Republic newspaper states, “Several candidates have filed to run in the upcoming election to represent their precinct or state legislative districts as Democrats. […]

Thank you for reporting about the Ravalli County Planning Board’s recent meeting during which Shannon Plocher ignored the concerns of the County Attorney and county residents, and offered a prayer. […]

We, as taxpayers and residents of the Lone Rock Community Park District, are angered and appalled that our Lone Rock Community Park identity has been stripped and that our park […]

By Judy Hoy, Stevensville   Regarding Hamilton School Board’s consideration of providing special protection from bullying for LGBT students: No student, teacher or anyone else should be discriminated against or […]

  The claim from Van Keele that Obama has created about 3.5 million private sector jobs in less than two years is complete fiction. All of this stimulus money has […]

  Wow! Remember when the Pilgrims came to America?? Let’s see… Oh yeah, it was so that the freedom of Christians could be practiced. Strange, there wasn’t an Atheist, Moslem, […]

  To Royce Engstrom, President of The University of Montana: I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your press release on March 22nd wherein you announced closure […]

  I’ve been working on the railroad So are the Co. Commissioners, I’m told The Commissioners, Republican all, Want to make a winning call They want to do a railroad […]

Obamacare may or may not still be the law in 2013, depending on how the Supreme Court rules. There are many myths about Obamacare. One untruth relates to taxes. John […]

  The latest nonsense from the Tea Party about protection of the environment and all god’s creatures that Noah saved being a communist conspiracy confirms my suspicion that they have […]

  The article published on April 3 regarding six questionable candidates running for Democratic Precinct Captains perpetuated some confusion that continues to exist in Ravalli County regarding the Tea Party. […]

  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 […]