Letters to the Editor
Voices from the community—reader-submitted letters sharing opinions, concerns, and perspectives on local and statewide issues.
Flathead Lake stewardship is a generational responsibility
It’s no accident that Flathead Lake is world class for clarity and water quality. It has been protected over time …
Tisk, tisk and OMG, OMG are not enough
Fifty-six years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for rabbis to join him for a demonstration in St. Augustine, Florida to protest the town’s inhumane racial segregation. Sixteen rabbis and one layman answered…
Flathead Patriot Guard needs to leave the guns at home
As a gun owner and a supporter of both the First (free speech and assembly) and Second Amendments (right to bear arms) of the U.S. Constitution, I was embarrassed and concerned by the Flathead Patriot Guard’s showi…
Letters to the editor June 14
Responding to ‘Hypocrisy is clearly alive’ in the June 11 Daily Inter Lake, the letter itself proves its own point. The writer deserves some credit for at least giving lip service to the Kalispell Police in the cur…
Now is the time to come together
Kalispell and citizens of the Flathead can be proud of what happened Saturday afternoon and evening in and around Depot Park. Somewhere around 1,000 people wit…
Misconceptions and disinformation about Whitefish rural fire
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” – Confucius
Action against intolerance and shining light on hate
The citizens of small towns like Whitefish, Montana have joined in recent protests around the nation and the world -- of people rising up to use their voices to express anger against racism, and larger issues in ou…
Letters to the editor June 11
In these turbulent times, it seems to me that we are given an opportunity. We can quite easily react with anger or anxiety fear to any one of the crises at hand. Whether it is the COVID pandemic which has brought o…
Letters to the editor June 8
Employment and stigma of those who are sick
COVID is teaching us a lot about how to keep our hands clean, what 6 feet distance really looks like, and how lucky we are to live in the great state of Montana where there are open spaces and clean air. It is also…
No-show Gianforte puts Montanans’ health at risk
The gubernatorial election this November was always going to be consequential. Then the COVID-19 pandemic changed the lives of everyone in our state. Now, as Montanans look to choose our next governor, we have a re…
Transparency needed for CARES Act spending
The CARES Act allocated $1.25 billion to Montana. Governor Bullock plans to distribute it under his authority. Spending public dollars is usually a legislative function, hammered out in lengthy discussions by elect…
Conservative comeback brewing in Montana
Montana voters left no question which direction they want our state to go in 2020. This primary election was the beginning of the great “Conservative Comeback.…
No good reason to hunt grizzly bears
Governor Bullock convened an 18-member Citizen’s Advisory Council last fall to recommend how grizzly bears should be managed if, in the future, Endangered Species Act protections are removed.
We must demonstrate love to all people
Over 50 years ago, when Jeannette Rankin (the first woman in Congress) was in her mid-80s, she told me “One of the more trying things about growing old is having to fight the same battles again and again.”
Letters to the editor July 7
WORDS from our president in a time of national distress are critically important. What might our president say to the angry protestors, the mobs in our streets…