DIL Editorial
Thoughtful perspectives from the Daily Inter Lake editorial board—local viewpoints on issues shaping Northwest Montana.
Reckless cruisers jeopardize Main Street pastime
Kalispell’s downtown cruisers are dealing with a few rotten apples that threaten to spoil the bunch.
Farmers Market needs new home
There’s a gaping hole in Saturday-morning life in Kalispell these days: no farmers market.
Sen. Max Baucus: A secure legacy
Sen. Max Baucus jolted the political world with his announcement that he is retiring at the end of his sixth term in the Senate in 2014.
Will we have to bypass the bypass?
Hospitals are economic bright spot
Terrorism won't win this marathon
Bill Gates offers warning on test scores
A recent op-ed article in the Washington Post warned against overusing students’ standardized test scores in evaluating how well teachers are doing their jobs. There would be no surprise about that — if it had been…
Senate antics shamed whole state
Maybe Democratic senators were trying to look like champions of the people when they tried to shut down the Legislature on April 5, but we don’t think it came off that way to the average Montanan.
Spartans spring into action soon
PSC and the utility of transparency
Last month, the Inter Lake ran a guest editorial from the Boulder Monitor complaining about an effort by the Public Service Commission to repeal a 2010 rule requiring utilities to disclose the salaries of their thr…
Sequester: A practical necessity?
Auction plus rain: A Creston tradition
Sorry, but the forecast for this weekend is rain and a little more rain and then maybe some snow for good measure.
State pension system must be fixed
Medicare expansion, plus reform!
Republicans are looking a bit schizophrenic lately when it comes to a potential Medicaid expansion in Montana.
Decline in wolves? Not bloody likely
One probably shouldn’t read too much into a state report indicating that Montana’s wolf population declined slightly last year for the first in almost a decade.
Water compact needs more time
It’s pretty telling when a Republican state representative who sat on the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission says he doesn’t think a tribal compact will pass the Republican-controlled Legislature, and…