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.
Can government juggernaut ever be stopped?
In order to win elections, Democrats and Republicans have wooed voters by promising them lavish gifts out of the public treasury. The total of these promises is not the $17 trillion that represents the national deb…
Clinic attack: Destruction does understandably lead to despair, but reader ties it to abortion
In Thurday’s paper, Susan Cahill says she has been feeling more despair, and she doesn’t trust this community. Her emotions are how I feel every time she takes the life of an innocent child. Just because it is lega…
Clinic attack: Abortion 'service' described as brutality
It is with sadness and disgust I read the letter from our local abortionist, Ms. Cahill, in the March 12 edition, touting herself as some sort of beleaguered heroine. I could not help but think of the over 51 milli…
Common ground: Stop war machine
As a left-leaning liberal, (tempered by deep blue-collar experience and a year in Vietnam,) I never expected to agree with Anne Bukacek, but I detect a meeting place for right and left. The military/industrial caba…
Clinic attack: 'We cannot ... ever tolerate this kind of behavior'
The recent burglary and extensive vandalism committed against Susan Cahill and her practice, All Families Healthcare, is as hateful a crime as I have yet to see committed here in our community.
To get the idea, read 'It's Even Worse Than It Looks'
Have you noticed how the pontificators of the Republican persuasion refer to anyone who disagrees with them as liberals? I have never been one to place labels on others, though the terms prevaricator, obfuscator, e…
Clinic attack: For now, abortion is legal, and no one can take law into their own hands
I am writing in a show of solidarity with Susan Cahill, P.A. (“Future uncertain for vandalized clinic,” March 13 Daily Inter Lake).
Clinic attack: Supporting clinic with a donation
To those persons or non-persons who trashed the abortion clinic: What would you have? A clean, legal clinic that is safe for women or a dirty, illegal clinic that leaves a woman fatally infected or leaves her bleed…
All for water?
Did you read in the paper where the president entertained the Dalai Lama in a back room in the White House? Wow!
What exactly is in the water compact?
Thank you, Mark Agather, for your words regarding the Indian/federal water grab known as the CSKT water compact.
Clinic attack: Attack on clinic was essentially form of religious terrorism
The recent malicious destruction at All Families Healthcare in downtown Kalispell could be described as vandalism, senseless violence or just plain criminal behavior.
Clinic attack: Doesn't condone violence, but still takes note of 'irony'
I don’t condone destruction of someone’s private property, and I doubt that most people who believe in the sanctity of life are gladdened by the damage done to Susan Cahill’s property. That’s not the way they opera…
Clinic attack: Irony seen in Cahill's words and actions
I was taught as a child to always respect other people and their property. Always. Even when I didn’t necessarily like them or what they did. So, I deeply regret that someone violated that teaching and damaged the …
Montana needs high-paying jobs
At RightNow Technologies, I helped grow a small software startup into Bozeman’s largest commercial employer, creating hundreds of high-paying Montana jobs along the way.
An unintended consequence of attack on clinic
The senseless invasion and destruction at All Families Healthcare, presumably carried out because abortion procedures are performed there, graphically illustrates the more radical side of the anti-abortion campaign…