Letters to the Editor
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The Mansfield Way: Unwavering belief in the American people
“Before all else, the people have a right to an electoral system free of shenanigans and capable of yielding hones…
Pirates host defending champ C-Falls in season finale
The Polson High School football team fell to Browning 34-0 last Friday, and the Pirates will finish their season playing the Montana High School Association Class A defending state champion Columbia Falls this week…
Tester following liberals' lead
People of Montana, it’s time to start thinking of the future for Montana and how we want to live and do here! Look at what is happening in California, New York City, Chicago and Portland with out-of-control crime, …
Shelton family supports McDonald
My husband and I own and operate a hay farm in southern Lake County. We supported keeping the density map as a regulatory document in order to preserve farms, ranches, and open spaces. The density map allowed for d…
Evaluating candidates on values
As a “committed” political independent, I have voted for candidates of all stripes and colors over the years. Some say that committing to “independence” is more a commitment to sitting on the fence. Not so. It stat…
Graveley fails to provide compact alternative
In his anti-compact column (Leader, Oct. 11, “Stockgrowers Association opposes FARM”), Matt Graveley, vice president, Rocky Mountain Stockgrowers Association, states that the “biggest whopper” told by compact suppo…
Initiative 185 is a personal issue
Although I am typically a fairly non-political individual, I feel very strongly that is it time to speak out in support of Initiative 185. For me and for many others in Montana, tobacco and tobacco-related products…
Support for CSKT compact
We and most of our neighbors on the Flathead Indian Reservation support the CSKT compact. It protects our state-based water claims, it provides certainty that we will have water to continue farming, it provides mon…
Stockergrowers Association opposes FARM
Montana water right holders have recently received official looking mailers that appear to be a litigation notice from the Montana Water Court. In fact, these mailers are only more lies and propaganda from the astr…
Vote for Bear Don't Walk in House District 93
It is important that people work together. I feel that the way things get done in our State Legislature is when both parties work together. People have to be able to see all sides of an issue and vote for what is r…
'Big-money controlled' healthcare system
Wow! Today’s healthcare conundrum. In my growing-up years on our Wisconsin farm, I had chicken pox, whooping cough, measles, mumps and bad bumps. Doctor Doughty was immediately there. All medical bills were handled…
Don't forget about food pantries
Dear Editor and Readers:
Dayton Daze 2018 an overwhelming success
The Chief Cliff VFD/QRU would like to thank everyone who contributed goods, services, time and money to make the 27th annual Dayton Daze celebration a whopping success! We brought in more than $14,000 which include…
We deserve our Second Amendment rights
Are you ready to turn in your semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic pistols? Are you ready to destroy your high-capacity magazines?
A few verses about our American standards
American standards; Have always been high; So why do we change; Just for one guy?
Restore CSKT-Lake County cooperation
Over the past few years, differences have bubbled up between Lake County commissioners and CSKT over such issues as taxation, density regulation, and judicial system expenditures. Experience shows that it is vitall…