Front is a treasure to preserve
Thanks to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for its recent decision to remove the 800 acres of land from the mineral lease auction along the Rocky Mountain Front.
I hope this action becomes permanent and the land can be preserved.
The potential short-term financial gain to be had by drilling for oil is, in my opinion, not worth the permanent damage to the land and wildlife. Introduction of more weeds with more roads and the attendant noise and visual pollution is a high price to pay. None of us like the price of gasoline, but this country is not going to drill its way out of its energy problem by developing these 800 acres.
There is only one Rocky Mountain Front and let us preserve it for our enjoyment and that of future generations.
Mike Wikstrom, Browning
Math tutors were great help
I am thankful for free drop-in math tutoring at the University of Montana this summer.
They call it "math@MANSFIELD" and it has been my salvation during the accelerated summer school sessions.
This semester, the "Math Tutoring Schedule" flier that I received the first day of school became a valuable bit of information. I felt like I was drowning the first few weeks of math class. The professor's lectures and in-class examples seemed to make sense, but when I got home and tried to apply it, I realized I had no idea what I was doing.
I have noticed that many young students don't want to ask for help, afraid they will look stupid. But I decided, even if I looked like the class idiot I was going to do whatever it took to get the help I needed. My stress level is way down as my weekly and biweekly trips to the math lab have helped keep me up to speed in my Probability and Linear Math class.
Emily Haverhals, Josh Krone and Joe Oldenburg are the three capable, helpful and knowledgeable math tutors at work this summer. They offer help in basic math all the way to calculus.
It is far better to get help early in the semester than to fail a class and pay to retake it. So if you are hyperventilating over an upcoming test or tearing your hair out over your math problems, make it part of your weekly schedule to go to the math lab to do your homework. You'll be glad you did.
Melanie Peck, Missoula
Freedom separates us from theocracies
With 18-year-old soldiers dying daily, people starving all over the world, rights being stripped from people on every continent, why, why is this country so focused on gay marriage?
I can sum this up very quickly, because it is a simple issue.
I am a straight guy (like it matters, but for those of you who dismiss this letter because you think I am gay), who has one reason that should hold water with every American living to give up on this subject - we live in a free country. That is it. End of story.
You do not have to agree with what someone does, but making laws against sexual preference makes this country a theocracy. Just like Iran. You will notice that the Iranian people do not believe much of what their government tells them, and our country is beginning to be run by the same kind of joke government.
Gay, straight, black, white, Muslim, Christian, American. Shame on this country. We look so stupid to the rest of the world. Grow up.
Matthew Bullis, Missoula
Where is revolution, Missoula liberal?
I just learned the other day that Nancy Pelosi is coming to Missoula this month.
Well, Missoula liberal, now is your chance to ask her why our troops are still in Iraq (and winning). After all, didn't she promise that, with a majority Democratic Congress, troops would be pulled out of Iraq "within one year"? Weren't the congressional elections of 2006 called the "great revolution" by more than one Missoula liberal?
Hey, you can ask her why her Congress has approval ratings that are now only
9 percent, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. That's 20 percentage points lower than George Bush!
Her liberal Democratic Congress has been in control for more than a year and a half. Why has unemployment continued to rise more than 1.5 percent?
I thought Pelosi said she would "tackle the economy head-on." What about fuel prices? Before Pelosi's "glorious revolution," we were paying an average of $2.05 a gallon for fuel. After Pelosi, we're paying $4.05 a gallon.
Hey, wait a minute? What's wrong with this picture? Why is there still violence in the Middle East? Pelosi said that, with her Democratic Congress, peace in the Middle East would be "realized."
She also claimed that this liberal Congress would be "reaching across the aisle in bipartisanship never before seen." She has bowed to Bush regarding so many issues that I can't even list them here.
In conclusion, a simple question for all Missoula liberals: Is this country better off now than it was before Pelosi and her Democrats took control of Congress in 2006? I guess as long as she has a "D" after her name, the liberal automatons will continue to support her and her cohorts, just as they've been programmed to do by our public school system and the media.
Daniel Shevlin, Missoula
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