Letters to the Editor
Editor, Our president, Donald J. Trump, has been living a life involved in practicing and promoting human negative attitudes. These involve behavior involving anger, fear, launching personal attacks, and blaming others for your own problems. We the People have the ability and power to counter all this negativity. It involves learning and practicing creative living. We humans are blessed with the abilities of choosing and being motivated by attitudes based on positive thinking, peace, harmony, and love. There are many wonderful, positive, and creative teachings available to each of us. Our world desperately needs these characteristics to be actively expected by each of us in whateve...
Editor, In our rural state, public broadcasting is extremely popular - and important. Many of us make long drives and do our work to NPR programming: music, talk shows, history and science shows, a variety of podcasts, local programming, local weather, balanced and informative news - whether state, local ...
Editor, Today’s Valley Journal (May 7) mentioned “infrastructure investment at MT State Prison.” To my way of thinking an investment is something that gives you returns of some sort in the future. It might be money, it might be saving money, it might be preventing problems down the...
Editor, Is anyone else bothered by the lack of cleanup at the 7th & 7th east construction site in Polson? It looks pretty crappy. The project has been completed now for about 3 weeks. I waited about a week before sending an email to the City of Polson Public Works department, requesting to have the tw...
Editor, On Saturday, April 26th, I participated in a “We the People Rally” at the intersection of Highway 35 and 93 in Polson. There were about 45 of us with signs and drummers. The weather was glorious and we received a lot of positive responses along with a few middle fingers. The oddest and...
Editor, We just lost a powerful leader, “The People’s Pope.” His power stemmed from his connection to all people; religious or not, black or white, poor or wealthy. Tenderness was his strength. Francis, humble and full of grace, challenged us individually and as world citizens to be bett...
Editor, Our nation has a leader Who has a mental disease The big question becomes How to put our nation at ease This same thing has not happened In our nation’s leadership before We must keep on praying God will open-up the door The door we want Him to open For us hu...
Editor, Just got my property tax notice for my tri-plex apartment building in Polson ... $1,500 for the first half … that’s $1,000 per tenant, per year. Doesn’t sound like much, but readers should understand landlords such as myself have no choice but to pass this cost onto the (middle ...
Editor, In Russia, if you openly express opinions against the tyrant in power you will very likely be arrested and thrown in prison. If you demonstrate on the street against Putin and his policies, this is also very likely. Instead, imagine this: You’re a Harvard grad student, working on ho...
Editor, The following letter (with minor changes) was submitted to this paper on Jan. 17, 2022. Considering our present Trump presidency, how does this message relate today? Read on: Consider the economic woes, political turmoil, China news, Putin, random shootings, and all manner of negative news c...
