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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Weird Words: Emoluments
Perhaps we should call this “ask the etymologist”… “Emolument“ comes to us by way of Latin – specifically, ēmŏlŭmentum literally means “something that is produced from work”. Different forms of the Latin word “emolument” meant striving for success and achieving success, but it also referred to profits, gains, or benefits. “Emolument” can be dissected into Read more
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Blast from the Past: School Board Discusses Nepotism
Sometimes, even old editions prove timely. Back about this time in 1988 Trego School board found itself discussing nepotism, specifically a school board member with a parent as a substitute cook. We mentioned nepotism briefly last week, when we discussed the upcoming school board election. The state laws on nepotism can be found here. Trego Read more
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On trusting the experts
I have changed the trapdoor into the crawlspace under my house. The builder was, is, a better carpenter than I. Yet over the past 4 years, I have never been satisfied by the trapdoor he built. He has built many houses – but I have gone into the crawlspace many times, as I worked with Read more
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Death Rates by Country
One of the more useful publications to compare nations is the CIA World Factbook. While we tend to think of the CIA as secret agents, a lot of them are data geeks crunching numbers. The data they develop about each country is impressive, and like the US Census, the CIA sets the standard for the Read more
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Trego School Trustees Positions
Trego School (School District 53) has scheduled the regular school election for Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Three trustee positions are up for election – a 1 year term, a 2 year term and a 3 year term. It’s been a long time since a school election was held – for years, a single candidate for Read more
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Windchill
It’s not really that cold out, is it? Are you asking the thermometer? To a chemist or a physicist, temperature is really just a measure of how fast the molecules that make up air are moving, how much energy they have. To those of us more interested in what the thermometer says outside, temperature has Read more
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