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-Benjamin Franklin
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Moderate Breeze- the Background Behind the Member Uprising
The second installment of the Lincoln Electric member uprising. I need to include a bit of an explanation of the Rural Electrification Act and the Rural Electrification Administration – Rural Electrification Administration (REA) provides a good description of how and why legislation was passed that gave the Electric Cooperatives a financial advantage (over the private Read more
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Salmon: That Time of the Year Again
The Salmon are running in the local creeks again. Salmon are a fish that spawn and hatch in one place and do their growing in another. This makes them a transporter of energy between places, in the case of many salmon between the open ocean and forest streams. Our local salmon are not ocean salmon. Read more
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The NRA Shows Montana’s Noncompetitive Elections
This time I didn’t need to bother our overworked election officials to find out how many and which of our state senators and representatives will be unopposed on November’s ballot. I could go to nrapvf.org and find out . . . as well as learning the candidates NRA grades. Unopposed for the State House are: Read more
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The Working Class Extinction
Claremont Institute has an article called “The Looming Extinction of the Working Class.” It begins with this paragraph: “You can’t have a democracy—at least outside of a one-party “people’s” version—without a middle class. Much of the last half millennia is the story of the bumpy rise of an expanding middle class, which successfully replaced ancient Read more
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Bridging the Gap Between Public School and Home School
There’s often a conflict between public school educators and home schooling parents. Parents that choose to home school are invested in education, they want the best for their kids- but their often invested in a version of education that looks somewhat different (or looks beyond) the typical public school classroom. Certainly, it’s an easy area Read more
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