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 …
More letters on rewriting history
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process i…
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Thank you, Matt and Keith Regier, for your recent letters to the editor, for naming names when exposing corruption in the political process in Helena.
Gianforte needs to rise to the next level
The managing editor’s profoundly simple “do the math” theme of his June 11 “Editor’s 2 Cents” column makes perfectly good sense. Rep. Gianforte has committed just one lone “violent incident” compared to a couple mo…
Planning by panic in Glacier Park
The Inter Lake of Aug. 8 contains the headline, “Glacier visitation tops 1 million in July” — not much of a surprise for those who have visited this summer. What is a surprise is that after a July “emergency conges…
Is it time to rename Flathead High?
I grew up living in northern Wisconsin and lived adjacent to the Red Cliff Indian Reservation. As I grew older, I attended Northland College, where I studied Native American culture with one of the tribal elders. O…
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The total eclipse of the sun this year is a cost-to-coast phenomenon not experienced in our country for a hundred years. I was in Minneapolis in the late spring of 1954 when the Twin Cities experienced a total ecli…
Charlottesville and beyond
Recently I’ve seen opinions supporting Donald Trump on the grounds that the stock market is up, along with lame excuses about how he’s new at his job and his comments about Charlottesville should be forgiven. I ask…
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I am offended by Commissioner Phil Mitchell’s total disregard for the property he swore to protect when elected commissioner. His request that county officials “treat me no differently than they would treat any oth…
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Is America being abused? Local businesses along our borders might prosper but what about the remaining tax-paying citizens?
Stop pointing fingers and face facts about budget
As governor of Montana it’s my job to responsibly manage the state through everything from a difficult fire season and the challenges posed by increasing drought conditions to making sure we take advantage of the o…
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In his July 27 Inter Lake letter concerning overcrowding in Glacier National Park, P. David Myerowitz defended his advocacy for parking area expansion at Bowman Lake. He did so primarily by disparaging Bob Muth’s f…
Here we are again - more live fires and dead trees
My last letter to the editor was in 2003, when Montana was on fire. Here we are 14 years later, and apparently, we haven’t learned a thing! Montana has (well, HAD, before this fire season) 19.39 million acres of na…
Long weekends and Congress' short attention span
As members of Congress look forward to their annual August recess, many congressional observers are once again raising the concern that lawmakers do not spend a whole lot of time on Capitol Hill doing the people’s …
Gore's climate assumptions must be challenged
Al Gore expects us to believe that climate change science is settled. According to the former Vice President, scientists know, with a high degree of certainty, that our emissions of greenhouse gases, 82 percent of …
Tribal politics proving George Washington's warning true
Why is it that people become so entrenched in their views that they are unable to change or consider other points of view? In spite of all objective truths to the opposite, people contrive any reason they can to re…