Opinion

ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL: The Treasure State's stand against AIS

Published on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 1:17pm

The Montana Legislature and state wildlife officials needed to act quickly.

Inaction was not an option after test results confirmed late last year the presence of aquatic invasive mussels in north central Montana’s Tiber Reservoir.

The Legislature, during the final days of the session, approved Senate Bill 363 requiring all anglers — resident and nonresident — to purchase a new Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Pass.

Trump made right decision to withdraw from Climate Agreement

Published on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 1:16pm

Editor:

I am writing in response to the negative letters regarding President Trump’s decision on climate change. 

ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL: Help save Montana’s past by preserving ghost towns

Published on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 1:14pm

The vigilantes grabbed Bannack Sheriff Henry Plummer from his bed in the middle of a cold January night in 1864 and led him to the gallows outside of town. His entreaties for his life under flickering torchlights were rejected, and he was summarily hanged.

The gallows on which the shady sheriff met his end are gone, but a replica stands on the spot today. You can see it and the amazing preserved gold mining town of Bannack this summer if you get a hankering to visit some Montana ghost towns.

A free press to thank for holding officials accountable

Published on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 4:24pm

Editor:

I am thankful for the free press. When Congress and the administration do not explain to the people what is happened, the media does. I think they should be elected to congress and the presidency. If we do not read or listen to the media, we have closed our minds and our world.  Thank you for freedom of speech.

Let’s consider the impacts of Trump’s budget on America

Published on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 3:41pm

Editor:

We have to consider how the new “Trump budget” will impact America.

The Unbridgeable Gap Between Left and Right Over Human Evil

Published on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 9:04am

There are certain clarifying moments in political discourse; moments that demonstrate just where the various parties stand. Never has the gap been so obvious as this last week. On Friday, the left declared the world in imminent peril. The problem? President Trump pulled out of the altogether meaningless Paris climate accord, a worldwide agreement requesting nonbinding commitments from signatories about future carbon emissions cuts. The hysteria was palpable. Suddenly, debunked weather prognosticator Al Gore found himself in prime television slots jabbering about the end of the world.

AP Analysis: Qatar crisis exposes a long Gulf family fight

Published on Tue, 06/06/2017 - 7:40pm

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gulf Arab nations often get considered one giant family, as many ruling tribes intermarried and have long ties stretching back to the days before oil turned dusty fishing villages into skyscraper-studded metropolises.

But if the last day has proven anything, it's that every family fights.

The diplomatic standoff between Qatar and its neighbors has exposed longstanding faults running just under the surface of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a regional body meant to serve as a counterbalance to Iran.

NASA aims for the sun

Published on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 12:01pm
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Diet is pivotal in battle against climate change

Published on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 12:00pm

Editor:

Are you, too, fighting mad about Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord? Then let’s fight back three times a day by adopting an eco-friendly plant-based diet.

Yes, our diet is pivotal. A 2010 United Nations report blames animal agriculture for 19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, 38 percent of land use, and 70 percent of global freshwater consumption. 

Voice concern to our elected officials about Accord withdrawal

Published on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 11:58am

Editor:

On Thursday, President Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, weakening global efforts to combat climate change and siding with conservatives who argued that the agreement was harming the economy.

Syria and Nicaragua are two countries that didn’t sign onto the accord. 

That is it. 

Even North Korea signed, along with 194 other nations and North Korea is completely insane and run by a tiny-brained, quasi-dictator man baby.