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.
Park's AIS procedures criticized as not well reasoned
Glacier National Park has had seven months to get its act together — seven months and here is the result.
Water managers get passing grade for Flood Control So Far from this Ole Rancher
The Flathead River Basin has been challenging this water year for water managers. At the time I write this, precipitation since October is over 129 percent of normal and the current snow pack (Snow Water Equivalent…
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The front-page headline in the Daily Inter Lake for June 6 states, “School offers apology for graduation incident.” The article makes it known that Flathead Hi…
Who's interefering in whose elections?
All the Democrats, including Hillary and Obama, are outraged that Trump won the election and they blame it all on the Russians for interfering. But did you know that Dov Levin, of Carnegie Mellon University, has re…
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The return of two-way traffic to Third and Fourth Avenues East is a positive effort to reduce through traffic in Kalispell’s close-in residential neighborhoods…
The bottom line: Seat belts save lives
As I approached the median and saw the car on its roof, I immediately feared the outcome: no survivors.
Where is the outrage now?
For the past eight years the country has been filled with the worst vitriol and hatred I have ever read. The president was called a Muslim who hates America, his wife and children referred to as monkeys, the first …
Legislature just missed on Heritage Center
It’s been 12 years — spanning seven legislative sessions — that Montana lawmakers have tried to find a way to finance a new heritage center for the Montana Historical Society.
National-monument decrees are way to control public lands
We should all respect and treasure history. We must preserve our past and the artifacts from historic times. The Antiquities Act established by President Theodore Roosevelt simply requires presidential signature to…
The birth of a movement - self-sanctuary or bust!
The Muslim mayor in an obscure New Jersey town has declared that it is now a “sanctuary borough.”
America's current civil war
My two granddaughters and some liberal friends have taken me to task for expressing my conservative views. I personally disavow any political affiliation and c…
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I was extremely disappointed that both Rep. Greg Hertz and his son, Rep. Adam Hertz, voted against the much needed GOP sponsored infrastructure bill, SB 367. T…
The forces of good and evil
For the past 30 years we’ve had presidents that were no more than puppets of the elites: Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. and Obama, taking orders to further the New World Order and Agenda 21 programs to imprison humani…
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We do need that wall. Those Democrats back there in D.C. are so smoked up on drugs and behave so stupid-stupid. I would like to see a bill passed that would require that their mamas sit beside them with a bar of so…
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My, how the cycle of political realities changes colors. During the Cold War red was the color ascribed primarily to the Soviet Union in particular, to its all…