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Gas up, folks

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Bill Cavanaugh, Corvallis Let’s make a conservative estimate on gas usage and say that you fill up with 20 gallons every 10 days. Under Joe Biden, gas has been on […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Winning

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Every couple months we receive a sort of newsletter from Hillsdale College, an avowedly conservative college in Michigan. Being a sort of college type myself, I was […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Hypocrisy

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by James K. Rummell, Corvallis    Will the hypocrisy of the Dems ever cease? Really, Mr. Tunny? Trump a convicted rapist? After over 30 years of not saying a thing about […]

Filed Under: Opinion

War against evil

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Parker, Stevensville This is a war for freedom in America. This is not just a war against liberals, wokism, Democrats, Marxists, globalits. It is a spiritual war against evil. […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Reacting vs. responding

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Hulse, Hamilton Much of the last four years has been spent reacting to the fraud of 2020. The Election Integrity movement is seeking out all the wrong-doing in past […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Montanans want politics-free judiciary

June 26, 2024 by Guest Post

by Pat Earnest, Stevensville The recent attention on out-of-state, partisan funding of the Montana Supreme Court races by national Democratic Party groups is a serious concern that completely disregards the nonpartisan […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Democracy is bipartisan

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Linda McCulloch (D), former MT Secretary of State & Bob Brown (R), former MT  Secretary of State Having proudly served as former Secretaries of State in Montana, we understand how important democracy […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Recovering the Republican Party

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Susan McCreary, Stevensville When I was nominated and voted into the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee (RCRCC) in about 2017-2018, there were older Voting Precinct people who had served 20 […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Four-way stop

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Lance Broshar, Stevensville It amazes me that drivers in Stevensville constantly do a rolling stop or just flat out drive through the stop sign at Main & 3rd. We have […]

Filed Under: Opinion

No honor in Manzella’s victory 

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Margaret Gorski, Stevensville Turnaround is fair play. Just as Trump supporters believe he didn’t lose the 2020 election, I don’t believe that Wayne Rusk lost his primary bid for SD […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Thank you

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Greg Overstreet, candidate for HD 88, Stevensville Thank you to the primary voters of Legislative District 88 (Stevensville and Florence) for my 54% victory in the June 4th primary.  As […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Grade school lessons

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Kris Bayer, Hamilton Most of us were taught in school that our government has checks and balances and that everything works as we are taught. Politicians are elected by the […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Border crisis

June 18, 2024 by Guest Post

by Evan Schroedel, candidate for HD 88, Florence Border crisis demands teamwork, innovative tactics. Imagine one morning a homeowner discovers that overnight his basement has flooded. The first step is to pump […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Decline to sign CI-128

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by Deborah Tilden, Stevensville Here are the facts you ARE NOT being told by the petition gatherers about what CI-128 would do to change Montana’s constitution:  Based on the facts you […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Injustice

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by Richard Parker, Stevensville This fake trial and Trump’s conviction is the final aftermath of nine years of the Democrats and the Democrat-controlled media and the deep state trying to stop […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Illegal immigration in Montana

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by Reps. Bill Mercer HD 46, Brandon Ler HD 35, Sherry Essmann HD 52, Jodee Etchart HD 48, Mike Yakawich HD 51, Nelly Nicol HD 53, Larry Brewster HD 44, […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Unintended consequence

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by John Grant, Hamilton I wonder if Steve Hall has reflected upon the possibility that his rumor mongering, fact free assault on Senator Manzella may have actually created a significant sympathy […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Thank you

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by Brad Davis, Victor Thank you for your support in the election. You may have noticed throughout my campaign some issues that I raised have now come to the forefront and […]

Filed Under: Opinion

No to Trump

June 11, 2024 by Guest Post

by Thomas Tunny, Hamilton   How can free thinking Republicans continue to support a twice convicted rapist (the judge in the case says that what the jury found Trump did was […]

Filed Under: Opinion

Microplastics in everything

June 4, 2024 by Guest Post

by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Today I heard a new friend telling another new friend that there is a law “coming down the pike” that will take all control of our children’s […]

Filed Under: Opinion

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