Letters to the Editor
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Heroics from St. Regis firefighters
I want to call attention to the actions of volunteer firefighter Clint Wolff with the St. Regis Fire Department.
GOP plan addresses the looming debt crisis
There’s dignity and honor in work.
Laws as reminders of the reason they exist
Every little once in a while I am reminded that laws are created to protect us from ourselves, or more particularly from our faulty memories, or from forgetting history.
Letters to the editor April 19
Letters to the editor April 19
Hunting, fishing and trapping part of Montana heritage
As it currently reads, Montana’s Constitution states “the Opportunity to harvest wild fish and wild game animals is a Heritage that shall be forever preserved.”
Legislative update from Rep. Loge
We are down to the crunch time this week. By the time you see this, all appropriation bills, revenue bills and referenda will have had to pass to the other chamber.
Governor-appointed board caters to a foreign mining company
When a Canadian mining company successfully lobbied a Montana board appointed by Gov. Greg Gianforte to let them add more pollution to Montana’s water, it’s ti…
Proof of the power of science-based forestry
John Bernard Leiberg was the first scientist to see the Lolo National Forest.
SB-99 protects the next generation of Montanans
There is a reason Montana is the Last Best Place in the country. Over the last decade, the Montana Republican Party has made tremendous progress in advancing our priority of protecting the future generation.
Unruly behavior at commission meetings
I am deeply concerned about what is happening in our county and more specifically, the behavior that is occurring at our Mineral County Commissioners’ meetings.
Obligation to keep county offices open
I am a former resident and former employee of Mineral County, Montana.
Non-partisan forum discusses Montana Constitution
This Sunday, March 19, from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Paradise Center in Paradise, there will be a “Constitutional Forum to Support and Defend Montana’s Constitution.”
Keep politics out of grizzly review
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has begun a 12-month review of petitions from the states of Montana and Wyoming to delist grizzly bears and remove the protections it has under the Endangered Species Act.
Legislature hits transmittal break
This letter deals more with the process of the Legislature than with the actual legislation.
Legislative update from Rep. Loge
We have processed most of the red tape reduction bills the governor promised were coming our way, at least in the House.
Working to represent rural Missoula County
As a representative in Montana, I was elected on the promise that I would represent the needs and interests of the rural residents of Missoula County.