Opinion
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Keeping Warming Center open should be the goal
Cooler heads prevailed at last week's heated Kalispell City Council meeting to review the Flathead Warming Center'…
Letters to the editor June 24
Letters to the editor June 24
Canal siphon failures not a matter of if, but when
Along with the torrent of gushing water that flooded Babb due to catastrophic siphon eruptions on the St. Mary Canal last week will be serious economic consequ…
Letters to the editor June 23
Letters to the editor June 23
Gianforte raised your property taxes and gave himself a tax cut
Gov. Greg Gianforte raised your property taxes. And he did it deliberately, in order to give the wealthy and corporations huge tax cuts. That’s a simple truth that our governor doesn’t want you to hear, but it’s im…
Montana energy isn’t ready for forced EVs
Last month, the Biden administration published their finalized tailpipe emissions rule, an electric vehicle (EV) mandate which will upend the daily lives of Mo…
Sheehy is a threat to Montanans’ reproductive rights
Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, gutting protections for reproductive health care that had been in place for women and doctors for nearly 50 years.
Letters to the editor June 20
Letters to the editor June 20
Support the Freedom to Vote Act
Having proudly served as former Secretaries of State in Montana, we understand how important democracy is to the people of our state. It’s not a matter of what side of the aisle you stand on – it’s a matter of what…
You go to your church, I’ll go to mine
A few years ago I was talking with a man who raised an interesting question; “There’s only one God, why do we need so many different churches?”
Republicans trying to undermine courts
Republicans in the Montana Legislature can’t seem to figure out whether they want to give legislative power away or try to grab more of it. The only consistent thing about their behavior in past weeks is their desi…
Letters to the editor June 18
Letters to the editor June 18
Letters to the editor June 17
Letters to the editor June 17
It’s a perfect storm for fire insurance
Westerners have begun looking at their homes differently these days. Are those trees too close? Should I move all that firewood stacked up next to the deck?
Temu’s invasive data practices threaten Montana’s privacy
It seems nowadays that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing everything in its power to hack, spy, and surveil the United States and its citizens.
The Marshall Plan vs The Trump Plan
According to historian Heather Cox Richardson, “in his Harvard commencement speech of June 5, 1947, Gen. George Marshall drew a clear ideological line dividing the USSR and Europe stating Europeans, Americans, and …