All of us are keenly aware of the tragic death of George Floyd. As a retired deputy chief of police, I felt it was important that how this is viewed by other officers also be shared. Contrary to some of the opinions heard by others, the assumption that officers back each other up no matter […]

Mr. Arnone, in his letter, “The Democratic Party has become our worst enemy,” has once again demonstrated why he is such a big Trump fan. He engages in the same type of childish behavior of name calling, insults, propagating mistruths and divisive rhetoric as his hero, Donald Trump. There have been a few times in […]

Even as a white-passing half Asian woman, the white-ness of growing up in Bozeman left me feeling not quite isolated, but never really included, either. The truth is that our small, beautiful, affluent town is homogenous. This homogeneity is what has moved me today to write to our community. It scares me that the whiteness […]

I am one of the small environmental groups that tried to stop the Bozeman Watershed Project through legal action. We failed. Even with legal action, it is difficult for the public to have a say in the management of our public forests. Other examples exist. In spite of longterm opposition to logging programs on the […]

Regarding the story printed on May 28 about the Belgrade man arrested for making racial threats against a Brazilian coworker: Initially, I wanted to write and say that I was born in Bozeman, I have lived here my entire life, and that this Montanan does welcome people of all nationalities, races, religions, etc. The more […]

When I looked up “food security” this definition made the most sense to me. “Food security incorporates a measure of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply due to various risk factors including droughts, shipping disruptions, fuel shortages, economic instability, and wars”. COVID-19 has revealed that we do not have food security […]

“We the people” face critical choices in June and November. Will we choose life or death? Will we choose common sense or corruption? Will we defend or shred our Constitution? We do know certain truths. In this time of unrest, fear and death, a corrupt and incompetent White House has betrayed us. For months Donald […]

Let’s say that you are the manager of a small convenience store, and you need to hire an assistant manager. You’ve got several candidates, but one in particular seems to have extensive business experience so you do some research and you find that he has bankrupted six businesses, been sued approximately three 3,500 times, been […]

Mistake to halt funding and disengage from WHO It would be a grave mistake to halt funding and disengage from the World Health Organization (WHO), flawed though it is. First, we need a global coalition to defeat the pandemic. Second,  withdrawing from leadership roles in any global institution creates tremendous opportunities for rivals like China […]