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The National Through with Chew Week, a public health awareness campaign designed to raise awareness of the dangers of spit tobacco, is Feb. 19-25 this year. Returning from a trip last year, I happened to sit next to a person on the plane who was a former spit tobacco user with quite a story to share. Noti...
Editor, Iraq is coming apart. And why should we be surprised? Times have changed. People’s intolerance to blatant and outlandish military interventions and their own corrupt police brutality is now getting full exposure through the world’s increasingly open and uncontrolled communication netwo...
Editor, It’s great when an apparent adversary unwittingly agrees with you and then supports your points by overstating the obvious with innuendo (yes, the First Amendment is alive and well in the Mission Valley, thanks to the Valley Journal granting equal opportunity airtime for unsupported opinions...
Editor, During the last several months I have witnessed or been advised of actions taken by some of my fellow trustees that I have found questionable. During recent weeks those actions, in my opinion, have gone from questionable to unethical to now potentially criminal. Agenda items on February 13, along ...
Editor, At the recent National Prayer Breakfast, Mr. Obama declared that Jesus was on his side with the idea of wealth redistribution by quoting Jesus in Luke, “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” I cannot believe that Jesus was thinking at all about material pos...
Editor, In response to the disclosure that the city attorney did not pay impact fees on his new home, and at the request of the city manager, attorney Bob Long wrote a letter stating, “… as the written Ordinance (624) fails to contain the exemption it does not reflect what the council enacted...
Editor, I don’t like federal programs or federal mandates. Montana should administer its own food stamp, Medicaid and farm programs. My family has been removing land from the Conservation Reserve Program. While we do this, the federal government is advertising for more land to be put in CRP for b...
Editor, I am astounded with Janna Taylor's dictatorship idea of telling the food stamp recipients what she thinks is healthy and what should be available to purchase. Food stamp recipients do not receive enough monies to pay for expensive healthy items in a grocery store. No matter what, it is not up to t...
For more than a decade, representatives from the state of Montana, the federal government and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have been working to conclude a water rights agreement for surface and subsurface water on and off the Flathead Indian Reservation. To be able to submit a compact to the M...
Judge C.B. McNeil dealt with the following cases Wednesday, Feb. 8: Valdena Curley, 35, Pablo, was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for five years, all suspended but 60 days in the Lake County Jail, to be served within six months, for criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony. Curley wi...
