Opinion
Editor, When I read of Tester’s latest expenditure of my tax dollars it is just too much. Now he has a bill for veterans exposed to burn pits. You’ve got to be kidding me. There is no end to this blowhard’s PR stunts. There isn’t one rock, however small, that this guy won’t turn over to find a reason to spend our money. He makes drunken sailors look like teetotalers. Enough is enough. The big government Senator needs to know he represents Montana, the one that voted Republican this year. His support of out-of-control spending is embarrassing. Nearly every single week there is a newspaper headline touting how big Jon just got this outfit or that millions o...
Editor, From the simplest bathroom to the fanciest, these two suggestions are applicable: Number one: Leave things where you found them. Number two: Don’t flush heavy papers. Gene Johnson Polson
Editor, Having been an active supporter of the Water Compact, I am very pleased with the appointments to the Water Management Board. Lake County commissioners nominated and our Governor appointed individuals with strong water law and hydrological backgrounds. So did the CSKT. During the board’s f...
Editor, I wish I was smarter than I am but since I keep being ineffective at initiating change maybe I should become a politician. For years we keep re-electing the same Lake County Commissioners despite the fact they have told us they don’t have a jail solution problem. They voice the same yearl...
We’ve all heard the quip, “how do you know when a politician is lying?” Answer: His lips are moving. But there’s another obvious question that begs an obvious answer. Why do politicians lie? Answer: Because they can. The American media – or what could once be legitim...
During the holiday, all of us at Shodair were amazed and thankful for the support and donations we received from the community to make the holidays special for patients in our care. As a father I know how magical this time of year is to children, and the amazing team at Shodair works hard to create a compara...
Editor, Prior to adopting an anti-vaxx attitude in 1974, I personally ‘respected’ the vaccine concept. What did I know as a child? Being routinely jabbed by the insistence of the public schools was commonplace acceptance. The current maniacal tyrannical bullying of getting jabbed with an irrat...
Editor, Around lunchtime on Saturday, Jan. 29, I decided to take 7 kids (all under 11 years old) sledding at Riverside Park in Polson. What would be better on a nice winter day? While I stood by a tree, someone from 110 or 114 4th Ave West apartments shot me in the leg with a bb gun. I knew it was a bb an...
Editor, Since the last feral cat article, I have learned there are four in-city Polson feral colonies. I maintain only one I call “the magic 30.” I can only hope kind people are feeding these cold and starving animals. My magic 30 are as diet-spoiled as any house cat – and they deserve i...
Most of us love a good bargain. Price plays perhaps the biggest role in purchasing decisions across nearly all domains. Nowhere is this more evident than in the fashion and apparel industry where many brick-and-mortar stores have been subject to a financial pummeling in the last decade. This “retail ap...
