Opinion
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Montana is not a pumpkin
October is here, leaves are falling, and perhaps Montanans should not be surprised that the Montana Democrats on...
Letters to the editor Oct. 25
Letters to the editor Oct. 25
Letters to the editor Oct. 24
Letters to the editor Oct. 24
Resist the attack on parents
I was shocked to learn last week that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has directed the FBI and federal prosecutors to charge parents who speak up at school board meetings under domestic terrorism and civil ...
Democrats’ tax and spend spree
Democrats, led by President Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, are rushing a reckless $3.5 trillion tax and spending spree bill through Congress that would reshape the very foundation of Amer...
Our wildlife heritage faces a double-barreled assault
The Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force sued the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over Soldier-Butler, a massive roadbuilding and logging project in the heart of the Ninemile Dem...
Keep party affiliation out of local elections
Voters in Kalispell and Whitefish have much to consider when poring over their ballot for the upcoming municipal elections.
Collaborative support for Ripley forest project
The governing board of the Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition has voted unanimously to support a legal defense of the Forest Service Ripley project.
Letters to the editor Oct. 23
Letters to the editor Oct. 23
Solving our valley’s workforce problem
I keep reading and hearing about the current activities in Whitefish regarding affordable housing. I have some observations:
Commission should reject gerrymandered congressional districts
Each decade our nation performs a census and congressional maps are redrawn to fit each state’s allocation of the 435 seats in our Nation’s House of Representative.
Abortion industry is a corrupt business
“If you reject the truth of God the danger is not that you’ll believe in nothing, but that you’ll believe in anything” —G.K. Chesterton
Letters to the editor Oct. 21
Letters to the editor Oct. 21
Stand on moral truth
Mr. Brown (Abortion at a crossroads, Oct. 10), I remember being a sassy teenager in the 1970s insisting to my father that abortion was acceptable. Then I read a letter to the editor by a local pastor and it chang...
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