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.
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April 4 represents the 50th anniversary of me fully claiming my identity as a “follower of Christ.” It is, of course, also the 50th anniversary of the assassin…
Evergreen levy 'goes too far'
I hope all Evergreen residents studied the pamplet received by mail before submitting their ballots on the Evergreen fire levy.
Two sides to every story: Vote yes for Evergreen fire levy
Let me introduce myself: My name is Brodie Verworn and I will become an elected member of the Evergreen Fire Board come the summer of 2018. I have been in EMS since 1998, starting out in Seeley Lake, then moving to…
An Easter People
We are an Easter People and I am thankful for the many ways God shows us the power of the Resurrection in our midst. God is at work in our lives, in the places…
Holding Zinke accountable through facts, not false attacks
Here at Western Values Project, we believe words matter. So when Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke used this paper to misleadingly smear us as “attack dogs,” we took offense: We’re watchdogs, not attack dogs, focused o…
Parks maintenance means Montana jobs
Montana’s National Parks brought in 7.4 million visitors last year. It was the busiest year on record for Glacier National Park and the second busiest for Yellowstone.
What if the political shoe were on other foot?
It is time for a practical lesson on tribalism over patriotism in U.S. politics today.
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I am disgusted this bottling plant was approved.
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This is written in response to Jeri Cardin’s diatribe in the Daily Inter Lake on Feb. 18 (“Trump is an out-of-control egomaniac — got it?”).
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As both a gun owner and an advocate for gun control, I feel responsible to add my thoughts in the aftershock of another school massacre. I know, enough has bee…
Trustee urges vote against Evergreen Fire levy request
To Evergreen Fire District taxpayers:
Looking for evidence that Americans have lost their taste for Trumpism
In February of last year I had a letter published in the Daily Inter Lake that lamented the fact that 62 million Americans would put a person so obviously unfit, both intellectually and morally, in the White House.
Enough is enough: Time to restrict guns
I’m putting my vote with the students from Florida, and across the country: Any politician who takes a dime from the NRA will be wearing a badge of shame and will not get my vote. And that goes for the pharmaceutic…
Learning about guns properly is lesson in responsibility
My father gave me my first rifle when I was 8 years old, and along with the rifle came a lot of lessons in safety with firearms. The rifle was a .22-cal. single shot. Ammunition was handed to me for target practice…
Politics as (un)usual
I don’t claim to be a Democrat, but if I did, I think I might be ashamed to admit that at this particular time in the history of our great nation.