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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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The Value of Money
The value of currency hasn’t been stable recently – or possibly ever. It isn’t a lot different from Roman times “Roman emperor Nero began debasing Roman currency around 60 AD by reducing its silver content from 100% to 90%. Over the next 150 years, the silver content was reduced to 50%. By 265 AD, the Read more
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Can We Please Have School Board Elections?
I don’t know how long it’s been since we actually had an election for the school board trustees. The ballots stashed in Trego School’s records date back to the 1900s. It may be that children have been born, graduated from college, certified to teach, and been granted tenure in the time since Trego’s last election. Read more
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Montana Election Integrity Meeting
Sam’s kind of slowed down during pregnancy, and asked me to attend the meeting from the Montana Election Integrity folks. I picked up some material, and had a brief, pleasant conversation with Jane Rectenwald – frankly, I liked the lady, but remember, I find most politicians easy to like. I hadn’t been in the Timbers Read more
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4-H Congress and Memories
I went into Trego School to see a poster where the Trego Trailblazers 4-H club was welcoming us to County Congress. It brought back memories. I was there when a group of kids started the club and came up with the name “Trailblazers”. Was it Kenny Peters who coined the name? Freddie Osler? The only Read more
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Normal Narcissism-by April Ilkmen
A little bit of narcissism is normal and healthy – here’s how to tell when it becomes pathological April Nisan Ilkmen, Adler University During former President Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency, the word narcissism became something of a buzzword. And in recent years the word has been popularized on social media and in the press. Read more
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Experiments in Democracy
Years ago, probably in civics class, I was taught that the old Greeks (actually the old Athenians) developed democracy. As I grew older, and read more, I realized that the Athenians didn’t so much develop democracy as they looked for a better form of government than the empires around them – Egypt, the Hittites, Mesopotamia, Read more
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