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Notes from Ranger Doug
I’ve had the pleasure over the years of getting correspondence from longtime Glacier National Park ranger/naturali…
Stream laws need to be applied fairly
As a former government regulator for oil and gas development and nuclear operations for 30 years, I was always taught that while fairness is in the “eye of the beholder,” consistency was the most important value of…
We can and must do better with wildfire prevention
Radical environmental groups, poor or no forest management and climate change are the popular wildfire blame game recipients these days. While all may be part of the problem, blaming them alone ignores other import…
What’s the point of being a Senator if you don’t have guts?
More than half a century ago, when I was a young, enlisted man stationed at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington D.C., I contacted former Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler. I introduced myself and asked him …
Hopes for a quieter Lake McDonald
I am writing not with complaint, but with a quiet wish — for the future of Glacier, and for the stillness that lives within Lake McDonald.
Urges people to get involved with CFAC damage program
The May 28th Hungry Horse News included an informative story about the Natural Resource Damage Program and Assessment Plan in regard to the Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant. As stated, the Natural Resource Damage Prog…
Share the road in peace
It’s Flag Day, 2025. I will march from the Flathead County Courthouse to Depot Park in Kalispell, along with hundreds of other citizens who are appalled at the relentless attacks upon democracy and our Constitution…
Supports energy tax credits
I am an electrical engineer and resident of Columbia Falls and I am writing to encourage Montanans to consider the impact that cutting the Clean Energy Tax Credits from the federal budget would mean for the future…
The biggest adventure of my life
“All aboard!” I stepped up to the bus driver and gave him my handful of tickets. He looked them over, tore off the necessary one, and handed them back to me.
Medicaid important to Montana
Medicaid gives health insurance to many people in Montana, including two out of every five kids. There’s a new plan in the government (often called “one big, beautiful bill”) that might cut health care for over 10 …
CFAC pollution perspective
In response to the Hungry Horse News’ May 28 article on a draft Natural Resources Damage Assessment Plan for the former Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. plant, here is some more information about damages to government l…
And in chicken news...
I could hear the chicken, but I couldn’t see the chicken. Just little clucks, wafting off into the growing darkness.
On the dangers of complicity
While in a personal capacity, I write as a member of the Flathead County Transportation Advisory Committee, a great-great grandson of a World War I and II veteran officer and war crimes trial judge, and a resident …
A ride through paradise
Earlier in our legislative careers, now Senate President Matt Regier and now Senator Dave Fern took a bike ride (not E-Bikes!), in a nearby county. The first half of the ride was all uphill. Then after going as fa…
Delgado responds
I guess that being 73 years old and 30 years removed from playing and coaching in a program that I was involved in for more than 20 years disqualifies me from having an opinion. Last I heard you still must catch it…
Brown on Legislature
Everyone running for office last year promised property tax relief. We are nearing the end of session and very little is being done or debated.