Letters
Editor, Uncertainty is floating through our lives these days like wisps of wildfire smoke. Work, school, church, sports and gatherings are all veiled with doubt or even suspicion. Many good constants fill our lives as well. Kindness and helpfulness abound if you know where to look. The Polson Loaves and Fish food pantry, and every other food pantry I know, is dedicated and determined to provide for the needs of folks in our area, carefully and thoughtfully, with a healing dose of smiles under our masks and sanitized hands handling the items we give out. Thank you all for your constant support and generosity by which we can demonstrate the certainty that we will, together, com...
Editor, When we actually hear and see how many people clap, cheer, jeer at the press and enjoy Trump’s battles with the press, it is plain to see how many of us humans do actually follow and express the Trump character traits and values promoting fear, anger, casting blame and the other very n...
Editor, We’ve seen so many grumpy and sad faces the last several months; it was a tremendous pleasure to see so many happy and smiling faces at the Mission Mountain Enterprise annual picnic at Boettcher Park last Thursday. We’d like to thank executive director Lauren Oliver and all h...
Editor, I am writing to encourage fellow Montanans to cast their vote for an outstanding candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Kathleen Williams. Williams served three terms in the Montana House, and while there, she was instrumental in passing bipartisan expansion of Medicaid, s...
Editor, First, I have to admit, I am aware of our predominant area political bias and have been for a long time. But, I am continually amazed that the bias seems, now, to have overshadowed the ideals of what America should represent, as spoken since 1942: “truth, justice, and the American way.&rdquo...
Editor, Trump’s approach to the administration of this pandemic focuses on himself and his reelection, not on the needs of the people or the country, and such self-preoccupation has never been admired by the people of Montana, who tend to be generous, practical and helpful to others. Our pr...
Editor, I find it incomprehensible that David Passieri writes a letter to your newspaper touting the notion that “COVID-19 is simply a spiritual battle that must be confronted.” I agree that it needs to be confronted, but he doesn’t elaborate on how we might bring down the curre...
Editor, It has been over a decade since Howard Dean admitted why there was not one word of tort reform in “ObamaCare.” It had everything to do with money grubbing by trial lawyers. Thanks to the Democrats and Steve Bullock, this glaring fault in Obama’s efforts to nationalize our h...
Editor, The past five months have been a little rough on my sister, who’s sequestered at St. Joseph Assisted Living in Polson. Sure, she receives three meals a day and lots of love and care from the staff. But those ingredients that help make life worth living – independence, affection, ...
Editor, As research is gathered about COVID-19 pandemic, a sobering finding is that many people who get the disease will have health problems long after they have recovered from the infection. Many will have kidney damage, heart tissue damage or lung damage. COVID-19 can be much more than a two-week...
