Letters to the Editor
Voices from the community—reader-submitted letters sharing opinions, concerns, and perspectives on local and statewide issues.
OPINION: We aren’t mad enough about PFAS in Montana’s rivers
For many Montanans, rivers and lakes are more than scenic landscapes.
OPINION: Dale Bumpers, 1925-2016, the man who should have been president
OPINION: Radical Islam and national security
OPINION: The threat of invasive species in Northwest Montana
Northwest Montana offers some of the finest waterways in Montana, spread across a variety of land ownerships. Waters in our part of the state are a public treasure and draw people from across the United States and …
OPINION: D.C. politics hurts Montana wildland firefighters
Our nation has a serious problem in how we fund wildland firefighting. As a former fire lookout and wildfire dispatcher, I have seen friends and colleagues work endless hours in a dangerous job to defend local comm…
LETTER: Some facts about Spay and Neuter Task Force
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to an anonymous letter that was sent to Flathead Spay and Neuter Task Force this week. You didn’t include your name or address so that we could answer your concerns,…
OPINION: Today's wilderness challenge
As a Montanan I am blessed to live in a place of incomparable beauty and wealth of natural resources. In appreciation of that I find myself moved to make a plea to thoughtful citizens to resist the corrosive effect…
LETTER: Sometimes diplomacy is not enough
Bob McClellan thinks the answer in the Middle East and all world conflict is diplomacy. He includes the conflict in Ukraine as one to be settled by diplomacy.
LETTER: Gas prices falling to where they started?
As we watch in awe at plummeting oil prices in the world, let us not forget that on Jan. 20, 2009, the day Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as president, the average price of gasoline at the pump was $1…
LETTER: Don't forget that nature has its own wisdom
A disturbing syntax appears in the recent Inter Lake comments on wolves. From the “Flathead Outdoors” column’s “...having hundreds of wolves running around eating deer 24/7 has impacted our deer herds,” (Dec. 31, 2…
LETTER: Consider the facts before condemning the wolves
With all due respect to Kelly Baracker (“About that moose decline, what about wolves?”), many of us seek to navigate the contentious ground that is wolf stewardship by relying on actual facts and science, not just …
LETTER: Roots of our dysfunctional president
It was clear from his speech last night that Obama seems mystified by the amount of dysfunction inside of the political world. He shouldn’t be as he is part (or most of) the problem. Our acrimonious political world…
LETTER: A tribute to those who died on Texas Tower 4
I venture to say that almost all, if not all, of your readers, never heard of the Texas Towers (long range radar platforms similar to the Texas oil rigs).
LETTER: Obama shows real strength
Ten days ago I wrote, “What is real strength anyway?” The letter was praising President Obama for demonstrating how real strength comes from the willingness to not react immediately to problem situations with negat…
OPINION: (Sad) signs of the times for coming year
There must be more to current events than meets the eye. I see the earmarks of a well-orchestrated United Nations global agenda with overall “redistribution” not only of the world’s wealth but of populations. At th…
LETTER: Evidence goes both directions
This addresses Mark Suppelsa’s letter in the Jan. 1 Daily Inter Lake that a claim about Barack Obama being a Muslim is baloney.