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Editor: I am confused by the ongoing dispute about whether we should legalize assisted suicide in Montana. I am a medical doctor whose patients include incarcerated persons. Law enforcement, jails and prisons are mandated to monitor for signs of depression and suicidal ideation and to identify, intervene and/or initiate treatment. We are told that our failure to do so would be a significant breach of an inmate's civil rights. Yet according to proponents of assisted suicide, patients also have a right to receive a doctor's...
Editor: Thanks to the Havre community for its hospitality in hosting the Montana State Speech, Debate and Drama Championship tournament. Hosting requires a lot of commitment from the Havre High coaching staff, administration and the hundreds of hours of volunteer judges from your community. Thanks again for making us feel welcome. Jeff Lowe, Assistant Coach Hamilton High School Speech, Debate & Drama...
Editor: We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the many people and organizations who came together to make the Community Christmas Dinner a success. There are so many who are deserving of a thank-you. There is no way we can list them all without overlooking someone. Please know that whatever your part, you were most appreciated and valued. Thank your for your community spirit. Thanks to those from PJs staff and the many community members who gave their Christmas Day to help us host the meal. Thanks to Robert...
Editor: Please help save Glacier's historic red buses that have served visitors since 1936. Ford contributed $6.5 million to completely refurbish the buses from 1999 to 2002. The buses have new chassis, transmissions and power trains, and they are now ultra-low emission vehicles. I drove a red bus in 1967, and I know how popular they have been with park visitors. The park service wants to retire the buses without consulting the public. Help Montana preserve this unique part of its cultural history. With complete public...
The House Business and Labor Committee fired the Hire Montanans First Act without cause. The committee "no" voters on House Bill 490 claim that not enough Montana contractors came forward as proponents. I'll bet my paycheck the real reason was too much opposition from out of state interests that may have sweetened the naysayers' campaign coffers in the past. Not enough support. That's a lame excuse. Guess Montana's unemployed or underemployed raising a family on $8 an hour don't count in the eyes of lawmakers who tabled the...
I have been following the communications in the news media about charter schools for some time now and have developed some concern about an element of disinformation about their purpose, character and impact on a school district that might have to deal with the issue. Although not involved in education during my professional years, I do happen to read a very well-designed quarterly educational journal, "Education Next," at educationnext.org, as a matter of personal interest that is sponsored by the Hoover Institution at...
Boy Scout Troop 1438 would like to thank everyone who has supported our troop over the past several years and especially those who have supported our troop this past year. Troop 1438 is one of the longest continuously running Boy Scout Troops in Montana as it began Oct. 1, 1947. This past fall, Troop 1438's Eagle Scout Tyler Palmer was able to fulfill his Eagle Scout Project through the generosity of multiple businesses and many people in and around Havre. This project of renovating the exterior of the Feed My Sheep Soup...
Editor: In regards to Mr. Donald Kaul's column ("If you deploy satire, you do so at your own risk," Page 4) in the Jan. 8 Havre Daily News, I wish to remind him that people have been killing each other for hundreds of thousands of years. What did Cain kill Abel with? A club. Mr. Kaul, you're missing the point of the Second Amendment. It is the right to bear arms. It is for the people to keep the government in control. Look at Hitler! It took at least 20 years for him to control the German people with laws that prevented them...
Editor: As I hear more about the proposed expansion of Medicaid eligibility being debated in Helena, I can't help but reflect on how Medicaid has helped people in my life. My grandfather served in the Vietnam War and suffers from the ongoing effects of Agent Orange. He is able to receive the services and health care he needs because of Medicaid. For him and so many veterans, the VA benefits are not enough and access to Medicaid ensures that he is able to access the care he deserves as a United States veteran. In Montana,...
Editor: Once again, I read about the wonderful benefits of Bullock Clinic. I'm sure that it will benefit those who are less fortunate get medical care, but the looming question for me is why the clinic is having a Great Falls firm build a facility that is for Havre residents and giving revenue and jobs to people who will take the money and spend it in Great Falls. I did some research on the board member who chose to go with the Great Falls firm over a Havre firm purely on a minor technicality. Some of the board members are...
Editor: Today, Saturday, I left my apartment on 4th Avenue to take out the trash. As I came to the sidewalk, I noticed that the sidewalks were pretty icy, but the roads weren't an option either, as they were probably in worse condition that the sidewalks. I walked very carefully. A few steps from the building where I live, I ended up falling on the ice, when I tried to get up it was next to impossible due to the ice buildup. I tried on several occasions to get up and couldn't. As I was trying to get up yet again I saw two...
Editor: I read and hear rhetoric aimed at our new Congressman Steve Daines, blaming Daines for the sequester cuts. I wanted to point out some facts in defense of Mr. Daines because the truth hasn't made its way out from the fray just yet. Mr. Daines is serving his first term as Montana's only U.S. Congressman, and he was sworn in to office in January. The sequester was a plan crafted by President Barack Obama and the 112th Congress — sponsored by Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa. Mr. Daines serves in the 113th Congress. I m...
Editor: To Havre, Chinook and the surrounding Hi-Line community: Thank you for the contributions given to Margarita and I for her accrued costs for travel and for medical care due to having fought and won the battle against cancer by the grace of God. Margarita and I consider Havre and the Hi-Line our home, and we were deeply touched by and thankful for your charity. We live in a special place. Sincerely yours, and God Bless you all, Patrick Campbell and Margarita Guerra Alvarez...
Editor: This letter responds to The Associated Press article regarding Monday floor vote on House Bill 505, which failed to pass by four votes, 27-23. We are disappointed but are continuing our efforts to prevent assisted suicide legalization in Montana. The AP article implies that assisted suicide is legal now, which is not the case. The Montana Supreme Court case, Baxter v. Montana, merely gives assisting doctors a potential defense to prosecution for homicide. The case offers no protection to nondoctors. The case gives no...
As spring emerges in Big Sky Country, with it comes the anticipation of summer vacations, farmers markets, gardening and enjoying the majesty of the great Montana outdoors. For the Montana Urban and Community Forestry Program, spring is for planting trees — specifically in celebration of Arbor Day — the official observation of which in Montana is always the last Friday in April. Across the state, cities and towns will prepare Arbor Day proclamations, organize tree planting events, and encourage Montanans to think about the...
Editor: From Culbertson to Miles City, cities are being hit hard by the costs of oil development. Sidney is expected to need $47 million dollars in improvements to accommodate Bakken newcomers. Bainville, population 200, is expected to accommodate a 350-person man-camp because of a new frack-sand facility. In Culbertson, the sewer lagoons are at capacity. Who pays for these infrastructure costs? Not the companies making the profits from the oil wells. The oil and gas companies escape almost all taxes on Montana's Bakken wells...
Editor: With much anticipation, we are pleased to announce the opening or Ruth Ann's on 2nd Street in the old Radio Shack building. Ruth Ann's is going to be a second-hand store with lots of clothes, furniture, kitchen appliances, homemade quilts and rugs along with many other items to come. Many of these items that Ruth Ann's sells will be coming from the surplus of donations that are received at the Giveaway House. The Giveaway House is under new, responsible, fun-loving, caring individuals. Please be patient as the volunte...
Editor: Senate Bill 220 seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in the state of Montana. Its short title is "Establish guidelines and immunities for physicians who provide end of life care" sponsored by Dick Barrett and is scheduled for a hearing on Feb. 11 at 10 am. in room 303 at the state Capitol building in Helena. On the Montanans Against Assisted Suicide website Margaret Dore explains: "SB 220 is a recipe for elder abuse. The patient's heir, who will benefit from the patient's death, is allowed to talk for...
Editor: The Hill County centennial is now history, and it was my pleasure to submit the series of articles commemorating that important once-in-a-lifetime milestone. So many people stopped me on the street and in the grocery store, called me at home or wrote me a letter to express their gratitude regarding those articles, and I appreciate every one of them. John Kelleher, editor of the newspaper, has graciously and enthusiastically agreed to publish articles submitted to celebrate another milestone. Havre's 120th anniversary...
Editor: We would like to once again thank the Havre community for the support given to the Festival of Trees for the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line. The Presbyterian ladies once a year have a dinner out and invite a guest speaker. About six years ago, Krista Solomon from the Boys & Girls Club was invited to be that speaker. She, at that time, told us what the club was about, that it was there for the youth of the community. At this particular meeting, Linda Johnson was attending, having just moved back to Havre from...
Last week's story, "Windmills for Northern" was right on the mark and reinforces why the Montana Legislature should leave the Renewable Energy Standard alone. As Jay Reed, instructor in the Sustainable Energy Technology Program at Montana State University-Northern, points out, wind energy as no longer alternative energy. It is mainstream energy. That's why Northern, along with Missoula College, is preparing students for an ever-expanding field. About 20 students earn sustainable energy technician degrees each year through the...
Seldom does one have the opportunity to heap praise on any part of the government or, for that matter, see it actually fix a problem. Last Tuesday, the National Park Service was that happy exception. The service released the revised contract for the next concession in Glacier National Park that assures the preservation of the Red Buses, just as acting Superintendent Kym Hall promised Jan. 30. As the task of preparing the revisions seemed to drag on, many of the hundreds throughout North America who were closely following...
Editor: As the owner of a family of multistate businesses that employ almost 13,000 people — including 1,600 here in Montana — I am a strong supporter of the decision being made by states to accept the increased federal funding that will be available to expand Medicaid eligibility in 2014. I want to thank Gov. Bullock for including a plan to implement expanded Medicaid eligibility in his proposed budget. In addition to providing valuable health care coverage to an estimated 60,000 uninsured Montanans, Medicaid expansion wil...
As someone who was in Helena on Monday for the rally for Medicaid expansion and spoke for the bill, I am highly disgusted that House Bill 590 was shot down on party lines. HB 590 would have affected my life in four good ways. I would have had insurance, my husband and son still would have had Medicaid, my husband's spend down would have disappeared, and I could have gone back to work. Idiots killed the bill based on the thought that somebody making $15,000 should be able to make $700 a month insurance payments. That would...
Editor: I think Mr. Johnke and the Havre High School Band are to be applauded. The excitement, enthusiasm and energy they bring to every game is awesome. Cindy Johnson Gildford...
