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Editor, The Hill County Commission has decided to put a 3 percent sin tax for medical and recreational marijuana use on the upcoming ballot. I have no problem with a sin tax on recreational marijuana just like tobacco and alcohol. I just can’t figure how in good conscious the commission can single out people suffering from cancer, PTSD and many other ailments and say their prescription drug should have an additional tax added to it. Aren’t they suffering and paying enough already? Voters in Montana approved marijuana as a v...
I wanted to extend a thank you from myself and my family to the community of Havre. We were recently stranded after we hit a deer in the middle of the night near Chinook. Law enforcement had to pick us up as our van was badly damaged. Thanks to Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Ohl and Chinook Police Officer Richard Balas. We had to transport our family of five in two vehicles. Both were extremely helpful and friendly. Thanks to Scott at Ace Towing, Shane at My Canvas Auto for their prompt and friendly service. The Best Western...
Prioritizing self-reliance when considering our energy sources is more important than ever. As the war in Ukraine rages on, our stock markets have downturned and gas and energy prices have soared; the world feels on edge. Everyone — both here in Great Falls and across Montana — could use more security when it comes to facing our future. Clean energy provides that security. It gives us the ability to rely on ourselves and frees us from volatile global markets. Because it comes from the wind and sun — abundant resources in Mont...
Editor, National Alliance for Mental Illness Havre is getting ready to get the walk going — it is on Sept. 18, 2022. This year we are not having a walk, but we do have someone to walk in Helena for NAMI Havre. If you want to donate to this, you can go on Facebook to donate or mail it to P.O. Box 786 Havre MT 59501. We are also having a kid and me tea from 2-4 p.m. Aug. 13, 2022, at the office. For more information on this you can call our office at 406-265-2258. We will have more of our things that are coming up on F...
Editor, This upcoming election is very important! Ladies do you really want to lose your right to privacy, health care and potentially contraceptives? Do you really want ultra-conservative white republican men controlling you? People do we really want to end our right to same-sex marriages? Almost everyone knows someone or has a family member who is gay. Let’s not take a step backwards. Ranchers do you want rich people from Bozeman and out-of-staters to continue buying up your ranches and turning them into boutique ranches? T...
Dear Reader, It may be just me, or might you also agree that large swathes of the Republican party appear to have given up on democracy — especially so when elections don’t go their way! And surely this is dangerous to our Republic! Is it just me, or would you also agree that Donald Trump and his allies apparently believe the ends justify the means no matter what? On January 6th, our country witnessed the last of Trump’s illegal attempts to steal the 2020 election. As the January 6th Committee has shown when Trump’s previou...
Dear Editor: Talk is cheap, but prescription medicines are not. Millions of people can’t afford to keep paying what drug corporations charge for basic medicines like insulin or asthma inhalers, much less specialty cancer drugs or Alzheimer’s pills. Pharmaceutical companies are price gouging people who depend on life-saving medications simply because they can. Patients in the United States are paying twice what people in other nations pay for the same drugs. For over a decade, politicians have promised to lower drug prices and...
Dear Editor, I want to address something that is very personal to me, the American family farm. I grew up on a malt barley farm in Fairfield that has been in my family since the early 1950s and is still worked by my father today. I, like so many others on the Hi-Line and in Montana, cherish the memories and values we learned while living on the family farm. Driving grain trucks, setting dams, moving sprinklers and delivering lunches during harvest are all jobs many Montana farm families can relate to. One of the biggest...
Editor, It’s ironic, but does anyone see it? First, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, letting states ban abortion, then the Supreme Court rules against the EPA fixing the climate crisis. The first was supposedly “pro-life,” but the second will kill people on an enormous scale. Supreme Court conservatives claim they care deeply about human life, but the ruling against the EPA proves they only pretend. According to the overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists, we had a very narrow window to prevent...
Dear Editor, Saturday, June 25-26, the Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club participated in the national American Radio Relay League Field Day event in Havre at the US Bank Park. Our club made over 250 radio contracts in 24 hours with other ham radio operators in 29 states, Canada, and Mexico. Through this event, we combined public service, emergency preparedness practice, community outreach, along with demonstrating our technical skills. We would like to thank Have Daily News for publishing our Field Day news article, New Media...
Dear editor, Since the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on overturning Roe vs Wade on abortion, the liberal Democrats have screamed how their “rights” have been violated. They — the liberals — use terms such as “It’s my body” or pro-choice. Not once have I heard any of them say they have “the right to kill my baby.” You will never hear them say “The constitution says I can murder my baby if I want.” The liberals will tell you it is inhumane to execute convicted killers by capital punishment. Save the killers, kil...
Editor, This June the Havre community played gracious host to the MSU Northern Traffic Education Program, as it has each year for nearly three decades. While here, licensed teachers from around the state work with local high school students from the Havre High School summer traffic education program to cut their teeth as both behind-the-wheel and in-classroom instructors. Our MSU Northern students rely on your students to learn, and the high school’s generosity helps aspiring drivers across the state. This summer highlighted...
Editor, There’s no doubt about it; Montana summers are getting hotter and our winters are not producing the consistent levels of snowpack we need to avoid record-breaking fire seasons. And it’s not going unnoticed, over 90% of Montanans see increasing wildfires as an issue, and over two-thirds see them as a bigger problem than they were ten years ago. This is not a coincidence — these are all issues that stem from our changing climate. Unfortunately, it’s not going to get better if we don’t act now. As climate change co...
Editor, I was contacted by Brian Carpenter of the Havre American Legion Riders about doing a motorcycle poker run fundraiser for Montana Wounded Warriors Memorial Day weekend. Havre has been a great supporter of our organization since we started 11 years ago. The fundraisers in Havre had taken a break over the last two years due to the COVID mess but when Brian offered I was all for the event. The weather cooperated and the turnout was great. I was really impressed with how organized the whole ride was and wanted to tell all...
Editor, If your candidate, or the candidates’ party, questions election integrity, including our local level officials, they are sending us voters a message. What that exact message’s is unclear, but it is meant to place doubt in our form of government. It might be “we know what happened last time, but we’re not telling” (wink-wink) or “don’t bother voting, it will be changed anyway,” or “if we lose it’s because we were cheated,” or whatever. After mentioning it, these candidates, all from the same party, (hint — they l...
Editor, Turning compassion into action has always been the Red Cross way, but we certainly don’t do it alone. That’s why we want to thank you for making Red Cross part of your community. Last year, Red Cross volunteers helped 17 people in Hill County following disasters like home fires by providing food, shelter, clothing and emotional support. When emergencies like the Amtrak train derailment strike, we meet families’ most immediate needs and let them know they’re not alone. About 90 percent of our workforce are volunte...
Editor, The Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association wishes to extend a huge thanks to all the people, institutions, grant providers and the Northern Agricultural Research Center that have assisted in rehabilitation work on the historic Officers Amusement Hall at Fort Assinniboine. The project, which will near completion in June, is being completed by Clausen and Sons, who were awarded the contract and are performing the work. Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association...
Some of the faculty and staff at Northern would like to speak to you directly. We have put together a collection of some of the thoughts and messages we want to convey to you now, as you begin your journey post-graduation. Know that you have worth and value. Know that your worth is not dependent on where you were born. Regardless of your nationality or personal identity, we are thankful that you chose Northern to pursue your degree. And your potential — employment or otherwise — is not dependent on your color, culture or eth...
Editor, Friends of the Bear Paw Marathon are seeking help with preparing and serving its all-you-can-eat spaghetti and baked potato banquet on Friday, June 3, at the Eagles Club in Havre. The pre-marathon race-day meal has been shown to provide runners and their loved ones with a number of advantages. The runners will benefit with the extra store of readily available carbohydrate-fueled energy and improved hydration on race day. They and their families will also have the opportunity to get acquainted with other like-minded fo...
To Havre Public Schools and St. Jude’s and Montana State University-Northern and the Havre community, I would like to use this letter to invite all our Havre schools to help clean up Havre this week. Show your pride in the town. Take a garbage bag which I can provide and clean up the parks and areas around our schools. A flyer is on Page A5 of today’s paper. Could we put it on the school reader boards also? Join us Saturday in Town Square at noon for a free lunch for everyone who participates. I feel this would be a gre...
Matt Rosendale, I called into Montana Talks Radio, (a statewide radio broadcast that can also be found on an app) challenging you to a live debate on Montana Talk Radio again! You have declined to attend any debate, especially the Montana Farmers Union Debate. The 2023 farm bill that will effect Montana farmers, ranchers and communities for the next five years is a critical piece of legislation. Aaron Flint with Montana Talks brought up the point that the reasons for all of the other debates you purposely declined to attend...
Dear Editor, As a Montana farmer, I am deeply concerned about the anti-natural resource policies of the Biden administration. Agriculture is the economic backbone of our state, and his policy decisions are causing serious issues for Montana’s agriculture industry. The struggle to pay skyrocketing prices for essentials like fuel and fertilizer, plus inflation and supply chain issues is very serious. I am pleased to see that Congressman Matt Rosendale has signed onto a letter sent to President Biden with concern over these i...
Editor, As a previous employee of Hill County’s Clerk and Recorder’s Office, I am replying to the interview of one of the candidates for clerk and recorder, Tina Salazar, published in Havre Daily News April 18 and her letter published April 15. I was taken back by her negative comments about the office. I don’t know Salazar because I left before she moved to Havre, but I can share my experience with the current clerk and recorder, Sue Armstrong, the office environment and staff I got to know and work with. I moved from Helena...
Editor, A great big “Thank You” goes out to Coach Souers, Coach O’Brien, Coach Broussard, and the entire Montana State University-Northern football team for their help moving the large dioramas and display cases for the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum. We could not have accomplished this task without the strength of these young men. The dioramas are old, fragile, and extremely heavy. The guys were eager to help and showed utmost respect for these historic exhibits. with the muscle of the team, we were able to load them up an...
Editor, Recent actions by our federal government to cut needed Medicaid funding, historic patterns of inadequate and inequitable funding for mental health and disability services are giving me a terrible sense of deja vu. In 1971, my Shelby High School sociology class toured the Montana facilities at Warm Springs and Boulder. I was appalled by the terrible living conditions and an overbearing sense of hopelessness. I remember asking our tour guides a couple questions: How do you give 2,000 people showers? (Answer: All at one...
