Opinion
Editor, We are writing to show our deepest appreciation for the outstanding work done by the Mission Valley Power line crews and support staff during Wednesday’s powerful windstorm. In this and in other power emergencies through the years, line crews respond professionally and as quickly as is humanly possible and our calls are usually followed up with a return call by dispatch or the lineman to make sure problem has been resolved. Thank you MVP. Marie & Marty Mumma Polson
This budget is a good starting point and continues to fund the state agencies and outdoor programs that support wildlife protection, enhance public access, and conserve our working lands. Previous legislatures and administrations have made incredible progress to make Montana the world-class sporting and recr...
By Heather O’Loughlin, co-director, Montana Budget & Policy Center Imagine someone gave you a million dollars and told you to spend $1,000 every day and come back when you ran out of money. You would return in less than three years. If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spen...
Montana, along with the rest of the U.S., has suffered through almost an entire year filled with the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. The impact on our health can be quantified by infection rates, the number of hospitalizations, and COVID-19 related deaths. Quantifying the effects on our economy is mu...
POLSON — January has finally arrived and with it has brought us our new Youth Services Librarian, Felicia Gill. We are very excited to have Felicia join our team here at the library and she is already thinking up ideas for children’s programming. We will continue to do virtual programs for a whil...
Editor, This particular day’s events leaped out at me with total captivation and fascination. I was mesmerized for hours. It began with watching, on Fox News, Donald Trump’s entire over an hour-long speech in D.C. to his followers. It was ranting, raving and filled with total misinformat...
Editor, In their first acts of 2021, Steve Daines and Matt Rosendale signed the list that will forever define those who aided and abetted an attempted coup. Many have described Trump’s supporters in Washington as “thugs” and “goons.” Those terms actually minimi...
“In a clear betrayal of our state and of President Trump, Senator Daines slipped the CSKT Water Compact into the coronavirus relief bill, despite his legislation having nothing to do with coronavirus. With a less than 5 percent chance of being enacted, the deceptively-named “Montana Water Rights ...
Imagine if you would – without warning, and quite against your freewill – you find yourself traveling to another dimension. It is a dimension of sight and sound and mind. It lies between the pit of our fears and the summit of our knowledge. It came quietly and is invisible, yet deadly. It knows n...
Editor, From a most interesting psychological point of view, Donald Trump has attracted many followers by constantly preaching and teaching the worst of human traits. Four of these traits are anger, fear, attack and blaming others. We see in the first trait, anger, a feeling we all ...
