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A Thought From Old Remus
Old Remus was an anonymous blogger who died about six years ago. I followed his writings – and this comment of his showed up on another blog this week: “Middle class America is no less violent than any other people. They seem passive because they’re results oriented. They rise not out of blood frenzy but to solve the otherwise insoluble. Their methods of choice are good will, cooperation, forbearance, negotiation and finally, appeasement, roughly in that order. Only when these fail to end the abuse do they revert to blowback. And they do so irretrievably. Once the course is set…
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“Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician’s corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintances sneered and slanged,I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”– Hillaire Belloc
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By AmberLi Emery An unopposed candidate is not automatically entitled to your vote. Whether it’s County Attorney, Clerk and Recorder, or another county office, you do NOT have to fill in an oval simply because there is only one name listed. If you do not support that candidate, you can leave that race blank. Your…
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I received two large, glossy political ads the same day. One was partisan as it could be, calling me to vote against “For Sale Flint.” The other was supporting a non-partisan candidate for the Montana Supreme Court, and calling on me to vote against “Dangerous Dan” Wilson. They were too similar. They did have different…
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This may be just a strange coincidence. Still, it was weird seeing Chinese views of the Mountain Ear climbing past US views – the idea of having more readers in Beijing than Montana just seemed a bit strange. Did Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots? | Mashable – click the link…
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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…