The “mainstream media” and Obama are strange bedfellows. For some reason, only one news channel has significantly challenged the Obama administration’s involvement in three major scandals until recently! Those scandals include Benghazi gate, IRS snooping into conservative organizations, and Department of Justice snooping into the Associated Press’s and Mr. Rosen’s news gathering activities. Anyone with…
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Thanks from Pantry Partners
Pantry Partners would like to thank everyone who participated in the May 11 Post Office Food Drive. We brought in a total of 2,037 lbs. of food. Stevensville donated 1,346 lbs., Victor 216 lbs., and Florence 475 lbs. We are always grateful for the continuing support of our communities. Our numbers have continued to go…
Don’t approve Legacy Ranch
To the County Commissioners of Ravalli County: As an individual who has been looking to move to the Bitterroot Valley for a year now, doing my research, it was brought to my attention in reading your local paper that I was stunned by the possibility of approval to the Legacy Ranch subdivision by the…
Make Legacy go away
County Commissioners: I have lived in the Bitterroot since the early 70′s and watched the slow development, such as Hamilton as a two-lane tree-lined street turn into the strip, making it look like any other US of A town. So these 40 plus years have shown me that we as a community can keep that…
Legacy Ranch and subdivisions
The Legacy Ranch Subdivision was originally denied approval retroactively as a result of the passage of the “One house per Two Acres” petition of November 2006. A lawsuit was filed (Lords, et al. vs. Ravalli County on 5 January 2007 and updated on 13 July 2012) in Montana District Court. Subsequently the case was…
Trickle down
I am not an economist. I need help to balance my checkbook. I suffer through a few months of income tax preparation every year before I take it to a CPA. I do read the papers and have a mind that stores away most of the trivia that the newspapers write about. As I…
Blame must be shared
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/bitterrootstar/Desktop/Opinion5-29-13.doc Blame must be shared I have been quiet for a long time but that doesn’t mean that I have not been watching and reading. We moved to the Bitterroot Valley 44 years ago. At that time there was a lot of logging and lots of PILT money from logging for schools and for roads….
A call for action – Legacy Ranch
As bad as the impacts to the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge will be if Legacy Ranch is approved, the implications for the rest of this incredible Bitterroot Valley could be equally severe. The new residents at LR will use the Refuge as their personal playground; along with their dogs and cats. While that’s…
Sequestration disaster looming
It’s feeling a lot like summer lately, even though it’s only spring in the Bitterroot and I haven’t planted my tomatoes yet. Things are drying out fast, temps are rising, and the fires have already started. Not a good sign for our summer fire season. There’s also a monster lurking, smoldering; a cancerous ground…
Thanks to recyclers
Participating in recycling of our household products is not always easy in Montana. We are often confused by the on-and-off-again ability to recycle glass, for example. Most of the variability is determined by the competitive international market, transportation costs, and volume advantages conferred to larger-scale recycling entities. Two retail businesses in Missoula have risen…
Montana’s natural resource jobs depend on rail transportation
By Mark Lambrecht, Executive Director, Treasure State Resource Industry Association We’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing over coal trains lately. But frankly, railroads are an essential part of Montana’s growth, more now than probably since the first tracks were laid in the state more than 100 years ago. Whether coal trains, grain trains, lumber…
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