Opinion

Dear governors, thank you for your leadership in response to this unprecedented health crisis and the action your administrations have taken to prevent the outbreaks of COVID-19 in nursing homes and assisted living communities to protect our residents and dedicated caregivers.  However, with the major spikes of COVID cases in many states across the country, we are very concerned this trend will lead to a dramatic increase in cases in long-term facilities. Recent independent research by Harvard Medical School, Brown University’s School of Public Health and University of Chicago showed the level of COVID cases in the surrounding community was the top factor in outbreaks in nu...

We’d been taking care of our granddaughter during the weekdays since September, and although getting up early in the morning to care for her was a bit of a yawn, our dear granddaughter was anything but.  We thought we’d have her with us until the end of May. We sort of thought we’d ...

Editor, As a proud gun owner and sportsman, the most important thing I consider before supporting any candidate is if I can count on them to defend our Second Amendment rights from the barrage of attacks from the socialist-left and their allies in the media.  Matt Rosendale is a fellow gun owner, ...

Editor, It is critical that our lone representative in Congress be a voice for the voiceless and stand up for the most vulnerable in our society — especially the unborn. Matt Rosendale has a long track record of being unabashedly pro-life. In the Montana legislature, he was a vocal advocate for p...

Editor,  To the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council: After reading page two of the June 25 edition of the Char-Koosta News that explains how the COVID-19 relief funds allocated to our tribe are going to be distributed, I became quite alarmed as an elder of the tribe.  I was shocke...

Readers of this column will attest to the fact that I like words. Heck, you might even use the “love” word here. I love playing with words. I love learning about their origins. I love words that are my friends or at least they seem like friends. I love lengthy words that stretch their syllables t...

Due to the pandemic situation affecting our world, many of our social conventions have been altered to suit the current situation. We have implemented social distancing, employed the use of masks and numerous other changes to daily life; however, no other convention has been impacted as much as the humble an...

There’s currently a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Republican Attorney Generals, to repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate protections for Montanans with pre-existing conditions.  This is a dangerous lawsuit that, if successful, would rip healthcare away from over 400,000 Monta...

  In 2018, paid political operatives in North Carolina went door-to-door, enticing voters to hand over their unsealed absentee ballots. The operatives then altered the unfinished ballots to support Republican candidates and failed to return ballots that already supported Democratic candidates. This b...

My aging dad lived alone for nearly 10 years after my mom died. But recently, we all came to the conclusion that living alone was a lonely endeavor. That, accompanied by his increasing need for assistance with some things, led us to find him a new home.  His moving to a new home meant cleaning out th...