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.
Get to know your judges
As you learn about all the candidates for various offices this year, the most important ones are the ones that most Montanans know the least about. The politicians you need to do the most research on are not the wo…
Time to get the job done and secure our southern border
When it’s seeding time on our farm, we seed. When it’s haying time, we put up the hay. And when it’s harvest time, we bring in the crop. We don’t sit around an…
Help law enforcement stop human trafficking
Human trafficking is not just a big city problem – it’s happening right here in Montana.
Grizzly bear population out of control
I've lived here in the Swan Valley since June of 1963 and spent my whole life in the woods, rivers and lakes, but mostly in the mountains. I've fished and hunt…
Letters to the editor Jan. 18
Letters to the editor Jan. 18
Daines’ next public meeting will be his first
After Senator Steve Daines’ latest top-down bill to strip protections from over 100,000 acres of public lands, we’re standing alongside thousands of Montanans and calling on the senator to meet openly, honestly, an…
Letters to the editor Jan. 16
Letters to the editor Jan. 16
Letters to the editor Jan. 15
Letters to the editor Jan. 15
Letters to the editor Jan. 14
Letters to the editor Jan. 14
How to fix inhumane and broken immigration policies
We are former public school teachers residing in Kalispell. For the last five winters we have come to the border of Arizona and Mexico to help teach migrant ch…
Presidential candidacy disqualification
There are four qualifications set forth in the U.S. Constitution that must be met before any “person” can be placed on the ballot and run for the office of president:
Dr. King educated our nation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 95 years old this year. Tragically, he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Jan. 15, Dr. King’s birthday, is a federal holiday to remember the importance of his life and …
Climate crisis: We’re all in it together
The year 2024 will be the most consequential one in the history of the United States. This I believe because the existence of our system of constitutional democracy is being challenged by forces who want to give mo…
Letters to the editor Jan. 11
Letters to the editor Jan. 11
Permanent trust needed for behavioral health
When I first joined NAMI Montana, I didn’t understand the tight relationship between the overall economy, the state budget, and the life-saving care that individual Montana families receive across the state. The st…