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.
Editor missed the mark in critique of national media
I’d like to say a few things about the Inter Lake’s managing editor’s “2 cents” column in the June 24 edition (“Trump and the ‘Mean Girls’ of the media”).
Flathead Valley cannot escape America's biggest challenges
Those of us who live in the Flathead Valley do so because it’s a lovely place to raise a family, seemingly separate from the traffic, crime, and pollution that many Americans tolerate as part of their daily lives. …
VA removes red tape to increase access to care
Imagine the day that you can see your medical provider from anywhere in the country, including from the comfort of your own home. You wouldn’t have to take a full day off of work, travel long distances or spend hou…
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Change the name of Flathead High School? (as suggested in a letter to the editor)?
Eradicating history
Not surprisingly, the city of Helena has caved in to demands by Indian legislators to remove a memorial to Confederate war dead. Montana’s Indian legislators a…
Who are the politically correct police and what is their goal?
Who really sets the political social agenda for the United States? Who sets the criteria for someone to be labeled a bigot or racist? Who defines what hate speech is and identifies those who use it? Who establishes…
More letters on rewriting history
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process i…
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Thank you, Matt and Keith Regier, for your recent letters to the editor, for naming names when exposing corruption in the political process in Helena.
Gianforte needs to rise to the next level
The managing editor’s profoundly simple “do the math” theme of his June 11 “Editor’s 2 Cents” column makes perfectly good sense. Rep. Gianforte has committed just one lone “violent incident” compared to a couple mo…
Planning by panic in Glacier Park
The Inter Lake of Aug. 8 contains the headline, “Glacier visitation tops 1 million in July” — not much of a surprise for those who have visited this summer. What is a surprise is that after a July “emergency conges…
Is it time to rename Flathead High?
I grew up living in northern Wisconsin and lived adjacent to the Red Cliff Indian Reservation. As I grew older, I attended Northland College, where I studied Native American culture with one of the tribal elders. O…
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The total eclipse of the sun this year is a cost-to-coast phenomenon not experienced in our country for a hundred years. I was in Minneapolis in the late spring of 1954 when the Twin Cities experienced a total ecli…
Charlottesville and beyond
Recently I’ve seen opinions supporting Donald Trump on the grounds that the stock market is up, along with lame excuses about how he’s new at his job and his comments about Charlottesville should be forgiven. I ask…
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I am offended by Commissioner Phil Mitchell’s total disregard for the property he swore to protect when elected commissioner. His request that county officials “treat me no differently than they would treat any oth…
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Is America being abused? Local businesses along our borders might prosper but what about the remaining tax-paying citizens?