Opinion

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Musk owns six companies including Space X, Tesla and X (formerly Twitter).  He got $3.8 billion in US government contracts in 2024. Eleven federal agencies have […]

by Bill Jones, Stevensville Richard Parker wrote in his January 15 letter that Jerry Esmay had recently established and Parker agreed that “smart Americans” voted “overwhelmingly” for Trump. While many […]

by Skip Kowalski and Kirk Thompson, co-chairs, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative We’ve received some criticism for our Letter to the Editor (LTE) printed in February 5th’s Bitterroot Star, specifically the perceived inference that if […]

by Jesse Mullen, Deer Lodge Montana Democrats face a rare opportunity: a complete reset. After years of decline, culminating in the 2024 election, the party is rudderless. There’s a chance […]

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now shuttered.  Approved by Congress in 2011 in response to the 2007-08 financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression,the […]

by Lorie Ortiz, Darby We did not elect a president to the White House. The person that received that honor is a petulant, six year old, hydrophobic, frothing at the […]

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville Wow! The liberals are going nuts over what President Trump is doing – hundreds of Presidential orders to implement his campaign promises. What is happening is […]

by Thomas Tunny, Hamilton Peep – peep, peep – peep, peep – peep… I don’t hear a peep out of any of our four Republican congressional members about what is […]

by Dana Henricks, Florence  We need your help. Big time. Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy, Ryan Zinke, and Greg Gianforte don’t give a rat’s butt about what we Montana Democrats think […]

by Skip Kowalski & Kirk Thompson, Co-chairs, BFC Recently, there was a LTE in the Star about the forest fire threat on the west side of the valley, lamenting the […]

by Jean Schurman, Class of 1972, Victor Last week I had the pleasure of judging students involved in the Victor History Day. The theme of the projects was Rights and […]

by Grace Wilson, Stevensville A huge thank you to the person who turned in the billfold they found in the BJ’s parking lot on January 24. Your honesty is much […]

by Archie L. Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis A solution to the housing shortage in Ravalli county may be in sight. The Office of Management and Budget sent buy out […]

by Deborah Mason, Hamilton Was I reading this right? After all this talk about lowering our property taxes, I read that the Hamilton School District wants to try another bond […]

by Don Gardner, Corvallis Hear ye, all who dwell in the Kingdom of America. Laws of the land are hereby changed. By proclamation of the king, all who reside in […]

by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire immigrant from South Africa and yet he was illegally given recent access to the $6 trillion US Treasury Payment System […]

by Glenn Ferren, St. Regis There is a Second Amendment case in Montana you should pay attention to. The second amendment question in this case, can you use a firearm […]

by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis  To all those who proudly voted for Trump, a heads-up. Already people in the Valley are losing jobs due to his Executive Orders. Others are already […]

by Rep. David Bedey, HD 86, Hamilton The first three weeks of the legislative session have gone by. As of January 24th, one hundred and fifty three  bills have passed […]

by J. Ward, Lolo People that volunteer to work the polls for elections are doing their civic duty – pride in performance. Who wins and who loses an election is […]