Trego's Mountain Ear

November 21st, 2022 Dear Secretary of State Jacobsen; I received your letter of October 19, and was pleased to be commended for being a responsible, educated and committed voter, etc.  It’s nice to have you say these nice things about me. Still, the only commitment in your letter was “Our office will carefully review your Read more

When the announcement came out that the Republicans had reached the 218 number that determines control of the house of representatives, one of the first comments I saw was “They did it by Gerrymandering the districts!” accompanied by a rant on the states the evil Republicans had Gerrymandered.  Now here in Montana, the eastern district Read more

The final two weeks of the Lincoln Electric members’ uprising.   On one hand, the conflict was all but finished when 35 petitions with 608 signatures had been turned over on November 7.  On the other hand, with the call for a special meeting, and the meeting scheduled for December 10, the conflict had a measurable Read more

Angelo Codevilla died in a car accident about a year ago.  I casually followed his writings over his last ten or 12 years – say from the time he hit retirement age until he died at 78.  As an academic, his specialty was the history of spycraft.  Moving into the general area of observing American Read more

It’s been several weeks since I first heard that Joe Cheevers died in a house fire.  I waited for confirmation in an obit or a death announcement, and saw none.  It’s not the norm to have a long-term Trego resident die without comment – so I’m going to share a little about the Josef Cheevers Read more

The Kingston Trio’s song, Bad Man’s Blunder, dates back to my pre-teen years: “The judge was an old man – 93 (too old, entirely too old) and I didn’t like the way the jury looked at me.”  I’m well past the age of drinking whisky that’s older than I am . . . my whisky Read more