In My Opinion

By Mick Holien Having just finished a stint with the Missoula Osprey is a welcome relief today, no not because the professional season is over, but rather it frees me from driving the peril that we know as Highway 93. And the perils were inevitable late last week and...

By Mick Holien So are we really going to get a pleasant September or when that thermometer took the big dip last week was it just the precursor to that bite in the air that sends us to a different drawer in the dresser or maybe spot in the closet. All I know is that...

By Mick Holien You remember. People might say when eying a disgruntled look – Hey you know it takes more facial muscles to frown than to smile. Oh poppycock I thought lingering in front of the bathroom mirror yet surprised I certainly was to find reference indicating...

By Mick Holien While many have their own interpretation there just is not a single adjective to describe John McCain. The Arizona senior senator who died Saturday at his home was a significant factor in whatever he endeavored although while recognizing what he...

By Mick Holien Sitting at a monthly board meeting of the Boys and Girls Club, it didn’t exactly come to me as an original idea. But when the first ring of a personalized cellular phone call pierced the air, it came to me. No not what you think that it should be...

By Mick Holien To say I welcome raucous weekend activities is an understatement. It is just making judgment over where and what to put puts extreme onus on this IMO. I really think one with a little investigation could find excellent and diverse music the entire week...

By Mick Holien With some 1,000 storage units either already built or facing construction one has to ask do we all just have too much stuff. And while I hesitate to call it junk – full well realizing that one person’s junk is another’s treasure – do we have too much...

By Mick Holien Vital parts of the Summerfest celebration annually attract a plethora of folks who might not be drawn to downtown Polson streets. And that is just what some tourists – yes we are a tourist attraction – attempt to do is return to areas where they...

By Mick Holien IMO decided with the opening of Dude’s I would put a few things on the sales block more or less to gauge interest and then purchase price. There are several unique things to learn about my mostly autograph collection. Because I traveled all over the...

By Mick Holien IMO decided with the opening of Dude’s I would put a few things on the sales block more or less to gauge interest and then purchase price. There are several unique things to learn about my mostly autograph collection. Because I traveled all over the...