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.
Opposed to transfer of federal lands
The Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society is strongly opposed to the transfer of Montana’s federal lands to the state, county, private corporations, or individuals. The transfer is likely to hinder science-based …
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Our Congress, in its own financial self-interest, pushed through the big tax cut for our poor, overworked, underpaid millionaires and billionaires, at the cost…
Democracy under attack by the GOP
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” This quotation from Luke 12 does much to address one of the most glaring i…
Bipartisan disdain: A pox on both their houses
At this at this particular time I seem to have something of a problem with supporting candidates for political office in either of the main political parties.
Golden opportunity
Freezing temperatures. Shoveling snow and slipping on ice. More cloud cover and reduced daylight hours. Yes, winter can be quite depressing for those of us not…
Working together had good results on forest plan
There’s a lot of bad news about divisiveness in America. Here’s a local good-news story: Folks with very diverse interests in the Flathead Valley met over a 13-month period, got way past “No!” and achieved a unanim…
Is Montana lost? No, it is not too late to work to save it!
This letter is a follow-up to a guest opinion of mine that was published on Jan. 22 titled “The Changing Landscape.” Please understand that the only reason I share my thoughts on paper and submit them to be publish…
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The Kalispell Planning Board is meeting on Feb. 13, at 6:00 p.m., to make a final decision on the proposed 324-unit apartment complex at 325 Two Mile Drive. Th…
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After reading Montana Perspectives on Feb. 4 about the new abortion clinic opening, I have to wonder if any pro-abortionists wrote in and were ignored. I’m a woman who grew up in the 1970s and remember when women h…
Sen. Fielder has Bundy values, not Montanan values
In Montana, we leave gates as we found them. Ranchers don’t graze on their neighbor’s grass without asking or paying for it. We pull one another out of the ditch. We follow the rule of law, which may sound like som…
Will Montana's 'mountain morons' prevail over self-appointed 'enlightened elites'?
The Democrat left once characterized itself as “liberal.” But that was a complete misnomer because the classical meaning of “liberal” is being “open minded.” And the American Left is certainly not that. It’s hopele…
Tax revenue is necessary to help communities to thrive
In Center Mall there are fascinating pictures of Kalispell in the old days. The streets were dirt. Later, wooden sidewalks appeared.
Story about clinic providing abortions draws responses
I found your front-page article celebrating the new abortion clinic extremely unsettling. Though it is newsworthy, is it front-page newsworthy? And to include a picture of three women who are going to be committing…
Editor's column didn't tell the 'whole truth'
Tell the WHOLE Truth, Mr. Miele. (Cherry picking season is still eight months away.)
Protests to begin soon
Thank you for posting the article about the All Families Healthcare in the Daily Inter Lake. Although, the heading sounds like an advertisement for abortions, we know it to be a Call to Arms to defend the Right to …