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Letters to the Editor

Voices from the community—reader-submitted letters sharing opinions, concerns, and perspectives on local and statewide issues.

Updated 2 days, 21 hours ago

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 …

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Is Montana lost? No, it is not too late to work to save it!

This letter is a follow-up to a guest opinion of mine that was published on Jan. 22 titled “The Changing Landscape.” Please understand that the only reason I share my thoughts on paper and submit them to be publish…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
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The Kalispell Planning Board is meeting on Feb. 13, at 6:00 p.m., to make a final decision on the proposed 324-unit apartment complex at 325 Two Mile Drive. Th…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
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After reading Montana Perspectives on Feb. 4 about the new abortion clinic opening, I have to wonder if any pro-abortionists wrote in and were ignored. I’m a woman who grew up in the 1970s and remember when women h…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Sen. Fielder has Bundy values, not Montanan values

In Montana, we leave gates as we found them. Ranchers don’t graze on their neighbor’s grass without asking or paying for it. We pull one another out of the ditch. We follow the rule of law, which may sound like som…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Will Montana's 'mountain morons' prevail over self-appointed 'enlightened elites'?

The Democrat left once characterized itself as “liberal.” But that was a complete misnomer because the classical meaning of “liberal” is being “open minded.” And the American Left is certainly not that. It’s hopele…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Tax revenue is necessary to help communities to thrive

In Center Mall there are fascinating pictures of Kalispell in the old days. The streets were dirt. Later, wooden sidewalks appeared.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Story about clinic providing abortions draws responses

I found your front-page article celebrating the new abortion clinic extremely unsettling. Though it is newsworthy, is it front-page newsworthy? And to include a picture of three women who are going to be committing…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Editor's column didn't tell the 'whole truth'

Tell the WHOLE Truth, Mr. Miele. (Cherry picking season is still eight months away.)

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Protests to begin soon

Thank you for posting the article about the All Families Healthcare in the Daily Inter Lake. Although, the heading sounds like an advertisement for abortions, we know it to be a Call to Arms to defend the Right to …

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
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A lender and a Realtor brought a heart-wrenching story to the attention of the Northwest Montana Association of Realtors (NMAR) about their client who recently…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
C'mon folks, give Miele a break; he's actually fair

By Bill Baum

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Next Legislature must stand up for Montana citizens

Montanans are now seeing the real-life consequences of budget decisions made by the Republican legislators who make up the majority of our state Legislature.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
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Is it me, or am I imagining the plethora of subtle advertisements that Flathead residents have been exposed to lately?

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Let's modernize NAFTA, but 'first, do no harm'

There’s a simple rule in business: Keep your customers close. It’s a rule that Montanans need elected officials in Washington, D.C., to keep in mind as they go about modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreem…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Trump's White House chokes on immigration

The White House immigration outline was released today and it’s not good. It could change tomorrow, for all we know, but as it stands now, this is a preemptive surrender on several issues.