Opinion
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Opinion: Testing tents in lousy weather
We’ve been going through tents this summer, which Is to say we’re testing our third one.
Opinion: A tight spot
One of my favorite films of all time is “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” starring George Clooney.
GOP improving education, they say
As Montana students head back into the classroom for another year of school, our education system is facing multiple challenges.
Opinion: Moose moments
So I got up early on Sunday morning just in case the moose was out there, you know, in the lake.
Critical of corporate influence
The Forest Service is helping corporations keep the public in the dark about their proposed operations on public lands.
Blackfeet Tribal Business Council victory
The Blackfeet Nation has, since time immemorial, remained committed to protecting our sacred cultural lands in the Badger-Two Medicine.
Celebrating end of Badger Two-Medicine lease
In 1977, “Friends of the Rocky Mountain Front,” a local group based in Choteau, began working toward preserving the wild integrity of all the Front, including the Badger-Two Medicine.
Brigadoon Summer
“Come to Me, Bend to Me” is one of the beautiful, romantic songs from the 1940s musical, Brigadoon. I know it well for I sang it in the Many Glacier Hotel production of said musical in the mid 1960s.
Jimmy Carter: Last Days of a Good Life
In late August it was reported that Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had entered their “final days.”
There’s such a thing as trail etiquette
The uppermost switchback on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park is eight feet wide. Yet the last time I hiked out, I was stymied by a group of young hikers walking down shoulder to shoulder, tapp...
Opinion: Thoughts on CFAC
Thursday, Aug. 31 is the deadline for people to weigh in on the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. proposed cleanup plan.
Tracing North Fork columnists
In light of Larry Wilson’s well-deserved retirement from writing his weekly column about the North Fork, after nearly 40 years of faithful reporting, I decided it would be interesting (and fun) to document the hi...
Some Republicans back Rosendale
U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale is the kind of proven conservative Montana needs in the race for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Jon Tester. As a group of committed conservative leaders and citizen legislators representing...
The Park is open
I volunteer in Glacier National Park by answering the phone in Glacier National Park headquarters and working in the “corral” two days a week alongside more than 30 other volunteers and summer park employees.
Support Glacier Institute effort to buy property
On July 12, 2022, the citizens of Columbia Falls and the Flathead Valley showed up. You overflowed City Hall and formed a line down the sidewalk.