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Letters to the Editor

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Updated 1 week ago
Ponds make no sense

Regarding the ponds at Tamarack Meadow subdivision.

Updated 2 weeks ago
Regier supports BBB

Now that wildfire season is here, the elk rut is only two months away and the Big Beautiful Bill has been signed into law by President Trump without any public land sales. What needs to happen with our federal publ…

Updated 3 weeks ago
Thanks to everyone who helped look for dog

On July 6 at about 7:30 p.m. my dog Clyde broke free of his collar while being chained up in my mother’s yard in Hungry Horse. We began the search for him immediately. My brother and I cruised every street in Hungr…

Updated 1 month ago
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…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
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…

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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…

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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…

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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…

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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.

Updated 2 months ago
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 …

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
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…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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…

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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.