Letters to the editor Aug. 3

Trump indictment a diversion

It is a shame on the newspapers who published the story on the DOJ going after Trump (Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election, Aug. 2) and forgot to state the obvious mess Joe and Hunter Biden are in. This article on Trump was meant to take the focus off of all the information coming out on the Bidens.

Selling state secrets, paying to have the Burisma prosecutor fired, etc. And has anyone ever wondered how Biden acquired three million-dollar homes?

It would be nice if the news was fair and balanced. My prayers are for Trump. With the media, the DOJ, and the Biden Administration, it is three against one.

— Grace Larson, Kalispell

Water compact

Flathead Lake is currently 20 plus inches below normal, on it’s way to 22 inches. If you think the CSKT Water Compact won’t affect you, guess again. This is merely a preview of things to come.

In all of the past below-average years of precipitation in the Flathead, this situation has never happened. SKQ Dam is in breach of every promise or guarantee made since its construction.

If you believe the water compact objections were only for those who have water wells, irrigation rights, written water rights from their government, or municipal water wells, you are sadly mistaken. If you believed the information presented publicly, we were led to believe those were the only folks who thought they needed to file their objections to the water compact.

The water compact absurdly gives the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes more water per year, 55 million acre feet, than has ever existed in Western Montana. To be precise, more than twice all the water that flows, 24,391,200 acre feet in Western Montana yearly or more water than the total river flow of all rivers on a yearly basis in the entire state of Montana. If someone else is entitled first to all the water, you are a beggar for your survival.

The final decision, accepted or rejected, for the entirety of the compact rests with the water court as it rules on the filed objections that have fought their way through the water compact objection process and mediation. Either the compact goes back to the drawing board in totality or we are for “time immemorial” dependent on the CSKT for our water in every way.

I encourage you to find one of the objectors, some are legally represented and some are doing it on their own, and help them acquire whatever help they need, representation or expertise, to stop this travesty.

— William T. Lincoln, Lakeside