Trego's Mountain Ear

With the recent meeting and posting about election integrity, I’ve been reminded that while I don’t personally have any evidence of mail fraud, we do have some evidence of… malpractice? malfeasance? Willful avoidance of compliance with state election law? You decide. (The short version: Section 7 suggests that write-in candidates, even undeclared, should be able Read more

I spotted this photo, from 1962 – in Lincoln County, as in Wittenoom, Australia, the sixties were happy days, when the hazards of asbestos exposure weren’t particularly understood.  “Wittenoom was officially removed from the Western Australian maps in 2007 and legislation was introduced to forcibly remove the last three residents in 2015. This ghost town Read more

After GCA68 passed, the gun banners seemed ascendant, unstoppable.  I heard increasing arguments that the Second Amendment was a collective right, that it was written to allow the National Guard to be armed – and while the logic was missing from the arguments, it was pretty obvious to me that they were passing laws that Read more

Rural Americans aren’t included in inflation figures – and for them, the cost of living may be rising faster Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University and Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the Read more

Let me start with a bit of humility – I have competed against good shooters.  I wasn’t at the bottom of the heap, but normally four or five competitors were between me and the top.  I performed at that area where I was treated politely by the top competitors, who, on a bad day might Read more

In the seventies, our snow-water records were Jay Penney’s hand-written notes that he brought along while we conducted snow surveys and Phil Farnes’ files in Bozeman.  Now, the records are online, and we don’t even have to do the math.  Still, this last cold snap and snowfall demonstrates why the percentage of normal isn’t a Read more