Letters to the Editor
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A bridge in Bigfork is just as important as Baltimore
For hours after the tragic accident that took down a bridge over the Pabsco River in Baltimore, our nation sat tog…
Letters to the editor Feb. 17
It’s Thanksgiving time. Imagine receiving notice that your job is being terminated and you’ll have to reapply for something else. Imagine you’re essentially a single parent for the past six months, caring for your …
Hospital CEOs join discussion on Medicaid Expansion
This week at the state capitol the Joint Select Committee on Healthcare met with some hospital CEOs to discuss Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. Our thanks to the CEOs from St. Peter’s in Helena, St. James in Butte …
Letters to the editor Feb. 11
I hope that your newspaper will advises your community to bring their pets INSIDE when the temperatures fall as far DOWN as they have been falling lately. Why return the cat, Fluffy, to its clearly irresponsible “o…
Made-in-Montana Medicaid program
What do rural hospitals, small businesses, and 1 in 10 Montanans have in common?
Wolf paranoia being stirred up once again
In the Feb. 2 Inter Lake, “Wolves still a hot-button issue,” we see that those with an irrational, fact-free hatred of wolves are at it again, just as they were a decade ago. Unfortunately, the anti-wolf paranoia i…
Evergreen should be focus of next highway project
Kudos to our local representatives, friends, mayor, county commissions, state and federal representatives’ planners and engineers, in a Herculean effort to get our bypass in place. It has served its purpose well. I…
Evergreen levy deserves support
In May of 2015, I was the beneficiary of the Evergreen EMS services because of a heart attack I endured while cutting grass. This scenario could happen to anyone at any time, which is why the Evergreen community ch…
Letters to the editor Feb. 7
During this winter’s frigid temperatures, many help the homeless via hands-on activities or donating to charities. But we have broader reaching and more farsighted options of forestalling homelessness by improving …
Letters to the editor Feb. 3
Now that the latest budget crisis has been temporarily resolved, it is time for all our congressional representatives to stop placing our government, our federal employees and contractors, and our republic in such …
Montana left footing the bill for real environmental stewardship
Under President Trump we have seen a sudden resurgence of federalism on the left in American politics as liberal states like California seek to go their own way on issues like the Paris Climate Accord and sanctuary…
Public Education Center should support student-safety bill
This week, the Montana Public Education Center sent a representative to the Montana Senate Education Committee to oppose student safety legislation which has received bipartisan support. The specific bill is Senate…
Water craziness in the Flathead
The Bullock administration and Montana legislators have one more chance to protect the waters of the Flathead Basin and ensure their availability for future generations. In regard to both aquatic invasive species (…
Letters to the editor Jan. 31
I enjoyed reading the article about Lee Downes in the Monday January 28, 2019 Daily Inter lake. It brought fond memories from when I hauled logs down Coal Creek from a few different logging jobs some years ago. Ev…
Montana needs tools to investigate cases of missing native women
It’s not safe to be an Indian woman in Montana.
Keep word on protecting sage-grouse
At the end of 2018, Ryan Zinke’s tenure as secretary of the Interior ended. Like many Montanans, I had hoped Zinke’s promise to be a “Theodore Roosevelt” conservationist would lead to pro-wildlife and pro-hunter po…