December 13, 2018 at 2:00 am
We are individuals; so are theyI recently read the following: When asked how she could work with those dirty, sick people on the streets of India, Mother Teresa replied, “Every one of them is Jesus in a different disguise.”What struck me, b...
December 09, 2018 at 10:13 am
I never planned on being “Old Man Jones,” but time never stops. I am currently the longest serving Republican in the Montana House, having served eight years as senator and six years as representative. I have served under the Senate simple ...
December 09, 2018 at 10:13 am
Marching band hand-me-downsI’m just checking to make sure I got the story right because, to be honest, I sometimes misunderstand and I certainly don’t want to be unfair to anybody. According to the front page of Daily Inter Lake (Nov. 24), ...
December 09, 2018 at 10:13 am
In light of the exorbitant cost of health care, I find both a letter of non-apology from the KRMC board and a news article/advertisement for the Digestive Health Institute in the same issue of the Daily Inter Lake interesting. The desire to...
December 06, 2018 at 2:00 am
Time for campaign spending limitsThank goodness the midterm elections are over. We have been pounded day and night for months on every form of media imaginable. The sad part is the orgy of spending that accompanies this campaign of trying t...
December 06, 2018 at 2:00 am
I recently renewed the tags on our car and I was happy to know that some of that fee was earmarked to support our state parks. Every year, I’m proud to participate, in a small way, in the funding of the parks that mean to much to our way of...
December 02, 2018 at 10:05 am
Every ballot has been countedNowadays we hear from those who want to revert to the conservatism of the Constitution writers. The original Constitution allowed voting by 6 percent of the population, all of them male, white, and owners of pro...
December 02, 2018 at 10:05 am
On a daily basis we are inundated on both the local and national level with news of how the opioid epidemic continues to infiltrate communities across this country. Previously, over-prescription of chronic pain-relieving opioids was believe...
December 02, 2018 at 10:05 am
Ryan Zinke, the most scandal-plagued Interior Secretary in modern history, has finally gone a bridge too far. It is, at long last, time for him to go. Recently, news broke that the Department of Interior’s Inspector General (IG) had referre...
December 02, 2018 at 10:05 am
Given how much Montanans value public lands, it’s reasonable to expect the Montana legislature would elect someone as chair of the House Natural Resources Committee who shares those values. But that didn’t happen with the recent appointment...