Opinions

California’s ‘Progressive’ War on Workers goes national

On Oct. 13, the U.S. Department of Labor published a “draft rule” which, if adopted, will escalate California’s disastrous war on workers and the “gig economy” to the national level.

Opportunity knocks

To the editor, Has anyone in city government considered applying for an infrastructure grant to fix our city streets? Over a trillion dollars has been appropriated at the federal level for exactly these kinds of projects. The streets are a disaster, the money is available so it would be an extreme missed opportunity not to apply.

Elitist cabal

To the editor, Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii and presidential candidate in 2020, has officially left the Democratic Party. This is the statement she put forth.

“MINE”

People in Dillon love football, whether it’s played by students at Dillon Middle School or Beaverhead County High School’s varsity and subvarsity teams or by the University of Montana Western. Part of what makes football so appealing to locals is for a team to be successful, its players have to cooperate—with one another and with leadership and even with other teams to set up games and adhere to rules and longstanding traditions. That’s also a big part of what makes living in Dillon so appealing—and what allows the town to continue to operate. Sharing. Cooperation. Respectful communication as opposed to just making a big decision on your own that will negatively impact your neighbors.

Positively giddy

To the editor, I have spent the last six years trying to figure out which statute that Trump would eventually be convicted under. Would it be something serious like collusion with a foreign government, something semi-serious like obstruction of justice, or something relatively minor like tax evasion? It didn’t really matter, as long as they got him on something, but I was always hoping for the most serious offense. I was really disappointed when the gutless Republicans let him skate on the impeachment issues. But never in my wildest dreams did I think we could get him on the Espionage Act. I am positively giddy at the possibility. Whenever I hear “Trump” and “Espionage Act” linked on the news, I start laughing.

Call to action

Once again, the state of Montana is pushing more costs down to the local, county level. The county treasurer offices across the state have always had a partnership with the Department of Justice Motor Vehicle Division to provide the service of licensing and renewing motorized vehicles for the residents of our counties.

Bureaucracy at work

To the editor, The Beaverhead County Commissioners are at this time considering the adoption of a costly and invasive bureaucracy to mandate building permits countywide. In these troubling times of rampant, out-of-control inflation, the last thing we need is more policies put forth to stifle our incentive. Please contact your commissioner and voice your opinion on this matter.

Anticipation

To the editor, I anticipate the Nov. 8 election in Montana with both hope and fear. I hope honesty, fairness, solid qualifications, and the voice of reason will prevail in every single contest. I fear they will not.

Vaccines save lives

To the editor, Because polio cases have recently re-appeared in the United States, the Washington Post published an article in August 2022, “The history of polio and the vaccines that nearly eradicated it.” Below is a brief summary.

WWJD?

To the editor, What would Jesus say and do?