Tribune readers online discussed four people sitting in a new car trying to win it; Gildford’s last store closing; a proposed copper mine in White Sulphur Springs; the Super Bowl, and Patricia Rosenleaf’s liberal colum on Sunday’s Two Cents page criticizing Republicans.

Car sitting

Edward Grainger, Great Falls:

This makes no sense at all. Let’s face it, this is a contest and not a friendship meeting ordeal. How do they all expect to have one person standing if they are getting along with each other? The key to a contest like in sports is to compete and in this case they should be getting on each other’s nerves in order to drive one of them out of the car, or three of them, in order to have one person standing to win.

Gildford store

Jill Stuart Ash:

Makes me so sad! Going to the store in Gilford was something that we always looked forward to when we would go visit my grandparents. Great memories of this place!

Wildcat M. Whitney:

I feel for those that found comfort in their hometown store ... The loss is going to be felt by many that shared it as a “meeting spot” and a break away from work and the farm.

Copper mine

Howard Strause, Tucson, Ariz.:

If every Montanan has a dollar every time a mining executive said “Greatly improved science and technology” would protect the environment, we would not need any new mines. Same for the old saw that we should just trust them since they are committed to preventing pollution. Then the mining starts and so do the unanticipated problems, and years of work cleaning up the mess.

Kathrine Ferguson Jenkins, Great Falls:

Just what else would you expect out of the mouth of the “vice president of exploration for Tintina Resources”? The only thing this mine will be good for is increasing the money in Tintina’s pockets! Look up and see what they have done for the town of Kivalina, Alaska, with their Red Dog mine. What roads will be ruined from their trucking the ore to who knows where? Are those 200 high-paying jobs worth your breathing all the dust and in a decade, your whole area being polluted?

Not possible

Al Lindseth, Helper, Utah:

It was the more boring Super Bowl ever.

Too liberal

Jayson Olthoff, Great Falls:

I am so thankful my kids were never subjected to the public school system that this person was a part of.

Daniel Biehl, Great Falls:

She does have her facts straight, but she has chosen to deliver them in an inflammatory style. That is certainly the fashion these days, though it leaves less room for understanding.

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