Opinion

By Travis Gardner, Treasurer, Post 94, Stevensville Your local America Legion Post 94 has received a generous grant from a local anonymous “grateful citizen.” It is a pledge to match dollar-for-dollar […]

By Scott Turner, Corvallis The following are answers to lies told by the shiny, handsome, well-spoken wizards we call the press or the media. The Maine was not attacked by the […]

By Allen B. Gates, Stevensville Open letter to Ravalli County Commissioners  As noted in an earlier Open Letter to you, the Covid-19 pandemic is out of control in every state […]

By Helen Sabin, Corvallis This is in reply to Russ Lawrence’s article in the November 11, 2020 opinion section. The title was “Masks and Rights.” He begins, “…Your right to […]

By Mark Van Loon, Hamilton Literally. If you, despite all the evidence, choose not to wear a face mask or follow the protocols of the county health professionals, I’ll not debate […]

By Ed Sperry, Col USAF (ret), Stevensville Sometimes we fail to recognize positive services rendered by our county officials. It’s so easy to criticize; but, how often do we offer some […]

By Bob Brown, Bigfork The recent behavior of the current President reminded me of an insightful comment made forty or so years ago by then Governor Ted Schwinden. The Governor said, […]

By Jerry Esmay, Stevensville As I write this, the results of the recent Presidential election are still being contested by the Trump administration. However, the recent call for unification by former […]

By Russ Lawrence, Hamilton There is a legal principle that is best expressed by the saying, “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.” The gentleman quoted […]

By Mike Mercer, Stevensville We have all been “hosed” at some time in our life and how we react to it, dictates what we learn from it. What I will call, […]

By Laura Garber, Hamilton As we all adjust to life after the election, it is important that we come back together. It is important that we remember we are all […]

By John Grant, Hamilton ANTIFA, QAnon, Socialist, Nazi. Epithets thrown around carelessly to describe someone with whom we do not agree? What defines a “TRUE” Montanan? 10 years? 30 years? One […]

By Bill LaCroix, Victor At a recent Ravalli County Commissioners’ meeting to ‘develop a message about COVID-19’, one man stood up to proclaim that he was an ‘Americanist’, which meant […]

By Brenda Allington, Florence On 04/07/2019, a letter to the editor entitled “Democrats Pushing Radical Socialism” was published in the Missoulian. My beloved friend, Kevin Hammond, a scholar of history and […]

By Brett DeBruycker, Dutton Agriculture is facing very pressing issues today that will determine the viability of family-owned operations. Future Federal and state administrations, governors, senators, representatives, and local governments are […]

By Roger Koopman, Bozeman We are the people of liberty.  The family of freedom.  In our bloodstream is the inheritance of our common ancestors – men who jump off the pages […]

By Frank Novotny, Victor I know a few things. One night while playing darts with my stepson my knees were hurting badly. A symptom of old paratrooper’s disease. He offered to […]

  By Jim Crews, Stevensville Moving Stevensville Forward seems to think there is some sort of Secret Society in Stevensville. If there is, I think a woman named Sue is […]

By Kathy Wehrly, Melissa Hughes and Cheryl Waterworth, Hamilton TEN THOUSAND willows, aspens, serviceberry and dogwood shrubs, and cottonwoods planted the length of FIVE football fields, surrounded by EIGHT-FOOT-TALL FENCING, […]

By Elliott Oppenheim, MD, JD, LLM Health Law This year has been the worst of years. We are locked in a winter of our discontent.  Lulu was dead. She strangled […]