LETTER: Why land policy needs to change

Tony Johnson’s response to my letter relative to the issue of state control of public lands illuminates the culture of fear generated from a lack of facts and perspective so wanting in our discussion today. Money i…

LETTER: Common-sense gun restrictions?

Having grown up as a South Dakota farm boy, I have had a long and affectionate relationship with guns. I have dispatched rats, cottontails, jackrabbits, gophers, pheasants, raccoons, skunks, ducks, geese, deer, elk…

LETTER: Mixed signals

OK, so I am confused again! The president is speaking about gun violence and the terrible effects it is having and escalation surely to happen without immediate action! I get it ... BUT Obama has released killers, …

LETTER: How do you stop shootings without ban?

I carried an M-16 for a year in Vietnam, and upon returning home a high school friend wanted to know if I had smuggled home a selector switch, which apparently can be installed in an AR-15 for full automatic capabi…

LETTER: Will governor prevent influx of refugees?

Wake up, Montana!

LETTER: Gianforte is best for governor

My wife and I have lived in Montana for 16 years. We have been a small business owner in a small town and today work for myself and family. I have spent the last 30 years in industrial automation and most recently …

LETTER: Gianforte will help economy

I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Greg Gianforte on a stellar performance.

LETTER: Feds need to keep bison range

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are proposing legislation that would give them ownership of the National Bison Range.

LETTER: Bottling plant too risky for others' water rights

Water is our life blood — to be shared by all of us.

LETTER: Far-right begins propaganda to promote transfer of public lands

The onslaught of the far-right propaganda machine relative to the transfer of federal lands to state control has started in earnest. I am specifically referring to the far-right letter to the editor by Mark Agather…

OPINION: Congressman explains two votes he made last week

Earlier this week, the Natural Resources Committee voted on a series of bills, two of which dealt with public lands. The first piece was an outright transfer of federal lands. The second piece dealt with establishi…

OPINION: Zinke's vote on public lands bill contrary to the Montana ethos

We Montanans are a diverse bunch, but we stand united on a few key issues.

OPINION: The misleading rhetoric behind the 'equal pay' movement

OPINION: Accident victim's father thankful for all who helped

I would like to thank Katheryn Houghton for reporting the story on my son and the Daily Inter Lake’s employee Brandon Floyd regarding his accident this past Monday night. Brandon has really enjoyed his position at …

LETTER: 'I'm with Madame X'

America’s 2016 presidential election seems to be all about “X” or “Y.” “X” is the female chromosome and “Y” is the male chromosome. Yet each of us is made up of both. The rest of the world seems to have figured thi…