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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The discharge permit issued by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality should be seen for just what it is. The DEQ took over a year to come up with ess…
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I am bewildered that our county commissioners chose not to require a stoplight at the intersection of Hodgson Road and U.S. 93 in Happy Valley when they approved the new casino at that intersection. The casino is n…
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I read the Inter Lake daily, and enjoy it. My reason for this letter is to give my input on a couple of articles your paper has printed recently.
Election mailbag
For some 20 years it was my privilege to serve as a judge, first as a district judge in Flathead County, later as a federal magistrate judge for the District o…
Fire, fuels, logging and politics
When Barack Obama took office during a massive economic crash, his Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel said “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” and used the occasion to ram through massive changes in government. Republ…
Glacier, other parks require immediate maintenance action
Visitation to Glacier National Park has never been higher, and need for maintenance has never been greater. My Model T friends driving classy, century old Fords helped boost the record visitation, but park repairs …
Gratitude under fire: A thank-you from California
I don’t know where to begin with this post, but I thought gratitude might be a good start. If anything, this week has taught me that checking in and being connected is a sacred privilege. To all of you, thank you.
Why Trump's failure is so important to the left
Trump must not only fail, but “be assassinated,” according to one female Democratic legislator. Such violent hatred has reached levels of incivility previously unacceptable in our country. One would think this is a…
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Lew Weaver’s push for his water bottling plant presents an opportunity for self-reflection.
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Does ‘Montana values’ mean helping folks in Congress?
Nation's woes just worsen
Heroes never get paid. If a football player wants to be one, just quit. Give up your career and your multi-million dollar job for your beliefs. Soldiers do that. Bakers do that. But the NFL gets on its knees? I gue…
Sen. Daines, it's time to move on
By DAVE HADDEN
Secession odyssey: Catalonia to Cascadia
Since last November many of us in many places in the US have heightened dreams of secession, of new nation-states, new sovereignty. It is true that many of us have had less intense versions of that fantasy for deca…
Education: What has been happening to it? and why?
In 1992 the earth-changing Rio Conference launched Agenda 21, sustainability and the march towards the New World Order. This was also the year we retired and moved from Chicago to Montana, where I became aware of t…
Save the Basin Commission
As so often in the last few decades, the Flathead Basin is in imminent danger. But this time, the threat to Montana’s crown jewel is coming not from mining int…