Letters to the Editor
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Battling substance abuse requires collaborative effort
Two and a half years ago, Attorney General Tim Fox and I stood on the steps of the state capitol with other lawmak…
Questionable food choices at community barbecue
How can Northwest Community Health Center host a community barbecue featuring hot dogs which are ranked alongside cigarettes and asbestos as known carcinogens according to the World Health Organization?
Libby does a car show right
The Igniter’s just put on the best Montana car show of the season — as usual!
Why we celebrate National Health Center Week
Northwest Community Health Center is part of a national network of primary care providers to more than 25 million Americans, including more than 106,000 Montanans. The program started more than 50 years ago as a sm…
Don't just let it burn
Having just read a letter from a Professor Fernanda Santos letter in the Aug. Missoulian entitled “Some wildfires simply can not be fought,” I think her letter sounds just like articles written by most National For…
A thank you to firefighters, deputies and neighbors
My deepest appreciation to the Libby Volunteer Fire Department for the work you selflessly and masterfully do.
Shame on RINO representatives
First I would like to applaud the courage of freshman Rep. Matt Regier in his expose of the venality of RINO Reps. Frank Garner and Rob Cook. Too often members of the two parties are loath to pull back the curtain …
A case of the few ruining it for the many
Have you ever had your dad come home from work and say I heard Johnny down the street got in trouble yesterday. Come here for your whipping if one kid did something wrong you’re all guilty.
We must make a good example of the Libby shooting range
To the editor: It goes against every fiber of my being to write a letter to the editor, but here goes. I’m gone for a week from Libby and come home to find out that “one commissioner” (I believe that is how it was …
Extremists care not about economic devastation
To the editor: I was shocked and amazed that Judge Molloy shut down the Montanore mine application once again! Astounding!
I encourage Ryan Zinke's stand on land management
With the negative responses to Ryan Zinke’s stand with land management issues, I want to encourage him.
Revisit this concept of animals
To the editor: There are two aspects of summer that make me cringe: both circuses and rodeos come to town to exploit animals.
Government's job not to pay our bills
Medicaid. The undercover single-payer health-care entitlement is being pushed hard by those who think the government’s job is to pay our bills.
Headline
As I contemplate our amazing national history, two giants of the Revolutionary War era, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, come to mind, along with their ideas about what later became part of the First Amendment to o…
What became of my Hillary vote
My Republican friends warned me that if I voted for Hillary we would end up with the most lying, corrupt and inept administration in the history of this nation.
Tester no environmentalist
We 30,000 strong Montana environmentalists are looking for our champion, and it is not Sen. Jon Tester. He denies us our needs: Wildlife (especially grizzly bears and wolves) saved under the Endangered Species Act;…