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.
Election mail bag Oct. 29
Vote for Initiative 185 — Here’s why. This initiative is a tax on the sale of tobacco projects in order to reauthorize the state’s Medicaid expansion. Beginnin…
Election mail bag Oct. 22
Vote YES for I-186
Yes on I-186 means yes for clean water in Montana
Currently, Montana tax payers are picking up the bill to clean up abandoned mine sites leaking lead, arsenic, and mercury into our rivers and drinking water. We pay tens-of-millions every year to deal with the dama…
Tester wants to outlaw Montana's gun culture
While claiming to “bring his Montana values to Washington,” Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., silently discards our values at the Senate door while voting with his Washington “blue coast” allies to outlaw Montana’s gun …
Election mail bag Oct. 21
Your freedom is a risk
Clean up higher education; vote no on 6-mill levy
As Montanans head to the polls this November to decide whether to reauthorize another $200 million in higher property taxes for the University System, they des…
Six-mill levy is a great, uniquely Montana tradition
Montanans will have a direct say in what we pay when the 6-mill university levy comes before us again this election year as LR-128 on the November election bal…
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel
In July of 2017, a group of citizens from Lincoln and Sanders County traveled to Washington, DC to meet with federal agencies and elected leaders and discuss the Montanore and Rock Creek mining projects.
Letters to the editor Oct. 18
Tester champions Montana women
Letters to the editor Oct. 15
Minimum wage
Rose Crossing inadequate for level of traffic
I have lived on Rose Crossing since July of 2008. Since moving here, as is the case with most growing communities, I have seen the traffic levels increase on the small country road on which I live.
The deep state impacting western states
I note with interest that your publication has chosen to mention the “New Code of the West” conference being held in Whitefish.
Republicans where are you?
Regarding the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Republicans where are you?
Rosendale fails ethics test with political favors
Take it from me, the job of state auditor is not always easy.
I-186 would kill the golden goose
The best social program is a good job and a thriving economy. I-186 hurts both.