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It Is Morning
As I look to the east, the scenery is morning twilight – black trees against black mountains. In the sky, the sun, not yet risen, has tinted a pair of clouds pink. A few stars still show through the unclouded parts of the sky. I remember an old man, much younger than I am now, explaining that the beauty of the prairie was reserved for people who got up and out early. The Mountains share that, but provide more during full daylight.
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I’m hearing and reading folks with ideas about the best pistol for bear. I’m an old man, and have carried a pistol off and on for a lot of my life. I tend to feel a little more secure with a short gun this time of year – but I’ve also had the experience of…
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“The United Nations has become a useless organization whose entire function is to feed a caste of arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned officials. Those who claim to defend human rights have backed bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets. They systematically voted against Israel while staying silent in the face of Islamist…
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The doe in the yard is small – and righteously so. About four years back, her mother was hit on the road – so from August on, she grazed and hung out around the mill with her grandmother. The early weaning interfered with her growth – I used hay to build a place where she…
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We started the Mountain Ear (both times) because we wanted better coverage of local news. There are so many board meetings, and all of them are important. The Tobacco Valley News faces the same problem we do- not enough people and too many meetings, and their focus is on a larger area. So we started…
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An emergency meeting of the Trego school board was called again on May 4 at 4 PM to update the community on the methamphetamine contamination of the school grounds.. Although the meeting was poorly noticed, there were nearly 40 community members in attendance, these included parents, teachers, former students and teachers and interested community members.…
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Earlier this week, a meeting was held to formalize the existing long-term relationship between the TFS Community Hall and the TFS Fire Department. Tables were set to form a circle, and the meeting began with introductions. It was a joint meeting meant to prevent future problems, without any reason to expect them. The issue: an…
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An emergency school board meeting was held at the TFS Community Hall, Saturday at noon (which coincidentally is the time the Rendezvous Parade in Eureka began). The board acknowledged that they failed to provide adequate (48 hours notice) on the meeting, and cited the requisite MCA code allowing it in the event of an unforseen…
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When I went to get some repair work done, the person I was consulting advised fixing the structural issues and then putting the same ancient dilapidated siding back on the building. The rational? Property taxes. Last summer, we joked about how much the nice flowers my mother had on their porch raised their taxes. They…
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I spent most of a year away from the school after I finished my term. I attended a couple of board meetings because I was asked – on one hand, there was, at the least, the appearance of an unlawful board meeting . . . unlawful because it appeared to violate Montana’s open meeting law.…
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Historically, independent voters, and voters for minor third parties, do not get a large percentage of votes. Often, they’re considered “spoiler” candidates, who lose the election for someone by dra4wing critical support away during a close race. Or their thought of as simply “protest candidates” with no chance of winning. In Montana, for the presidential…
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Not many years ago, if you were faced with a cluster of unacceptable clowns on your ballot, you could write a name in and cast a protest vote. Hell, I guess you still can – the thing is, your write-in protest vote won’t be counted or reported. With the elimination of subsection 7 last year,…