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Updated 2 days ago

Water is the lifeblood of Montana ranching

Water is not just a resource in Montana — it is the lifeblood of ranching. It sustains our livestock, our land and…

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letters to the editor Dec. 19

Letters to the editor Dec. 19

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Proper elk management requires collaboration

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ proposal to alter its elk management strategy drew a “firestorm” of public comments over the last month.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Wasteful spending will only make inflation worse

Montana families across the state are feeling the pain in their pocketbooks from inflation and higher prices on everything from gas to groceries to heating their homes. What’s causing this? President Biden and Cong…

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Action on climate will create Montana jobs

Around Montana, the impact of climate change is hitting hard: Extreme drought continued through the late fall and December brought record highs. Firefighters are moving from one catastrophe to the next, working lon…

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Responsible gun owners need to be heard

I own a closet full of guns. But nowhere in that closet is ammunition.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letters to the editor Dec. 18

Letters to the editor Dec. 18

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Bob Dole will be remembered well

With the unrelenting talk about election fraud, I’ve decided now to clear my conscience and disclose that I voted twice for president in 1996.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Housing problem needs an incentive based solution

I read the article on Sunday, Dec. 12 (Town Hall Addresses Causes, Solutions For Homelessness) and had to stop and think about what it is that Montana is NOT doing to help solve this growing problem.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letter to Supt. Arntzen: Keep up the good fight

We write to refute the unauthorized “no-confidence” letter recently sent to you by certain school superintendents gone rogue.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letters to the editor Dec. 16

Letters to the editor Dec. 16

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Infrastructure, hard and soft

Every once in a while the public’s attention is drawn to an issue with a name that few people understand and many cannot even pronounce; enter “infrastructure.”

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letters to the editor Dec. 13

Letters to the editor Dec. 13

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Response to library board criticism

I am responding as an individual to comments published in the Dec. 9 letters to the editor, not for the library board.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
17 million words (or so): that’s all she wrote

Well, dear folks, the time has come for me to put down my pen — back away from the computer is more like it — and head into retirement.

Updated 4 years, 5 months ago
Letters to the editor Dec. 12

Letters to the editor Dec. 12