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SEELEY LAKE - The crucial moment is here. After more than ten years of planning, voters in the Sewer District will make a decision that will profoundly impact Seeley Lake. The sewer issue is complex, but for me it boils down to two simple facts: our groundwater is getting more and more contaminated and that’s already visible on our lake with the increase in algae. Secondly, we have a one-time opportunity to receive $8 million in federal grants for the project, the largest award ever made. If we turn the sewer down, that pile of money will be p...
With just about two weeks left in the nastiest campaign of our lives, we are breathing a sigh of relief that it’s almost over. Our mailboxes are overflowing, and it’s virtually impossible to separate fact from fiction in candidates’ mailings and to decide which negative claims about opponents are valid and which are out of context or actual untruths. And while surely no one needs advice on the top of the ticket, there is one statewide race and a couple of local races that deserve comment. One of the more obscure yet very important elect...
A fiery debate has broken out about refugees and especially about the possibility of refugees in Missoula, fanned perhaps by the sometimes incendiary tenor of the Presidential primary debates. But a more dispassionate examination of the facts suggests that things are nowhere near as dire as some fear. At the outset, we need to acknowledge that Europe finds itself in the most serious crisis in a generation. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring across open borders into Germany alone, a country smaller than Montana. And the combustible...
