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It’s the middle of October, when the days grow shorter and the trees are painted in the colors of fall. In previous years, we’ve written about Game Cameras, Chronic Wasting, Professional Licensure, Mushrooms, Harvestmen and more. Read more

This Sunday, folks were able to tour the cemetery and enjoy portrayals of some of the folks buried there. In between graves, tour guests learned facts about cemeteries in general (not the same as a graveyard, as it turns out) and about the Tobacco Valley Cemetery in particular. The tour ended with Sheriff Baney. It Read more

Joe Biden said “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.”  We’ve heard a lot of Biden comments over the past couple of years – and it isn’t a bad idea to look at some of the things Milton Friedman said: I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the Read more

Somewhere, I read a definition of peace: “an unnatural state of human interaction that we assume exists because occasionally both sides are reloading simultaneously.”  I don’t know who should get the credit for the definition.  My first studies of a war-torn locale were Sunday school.  Times were rough on those Canaanite guys, and it didn’t Read more

Sometime before 2000 – probably in 1997 or 98 – a small stuffed animal came into our lives and home. It resembled a chihuahua, and when you pressed on its chest a speaker vocalized the advertising message: “Yo quiero taco bell.”  As Sam moved into elementary school, then middle and high school, the stuffed animals Read more

I spent most of my public school years in South Dakota, and was a bit bewildered by Columbus day when I returned to Montana. South Dakota renamed Columbus Day back in 1990, after a proposal by Governor Mickleson. It isn’t the only one, these days: Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and Read more