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-Benjamin Franklin
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Easy Math but Fake News
Yesterday, I read that US Life Expectancy had dropped by a full year due to Covid. I didn’t really think about it – I had taught about the drop in life expectancy accompanying the Spanish Flu, and had invented hypothetical plagues for student exercises in demography class. But when I had the full-year drop in Read more
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Board of Health Meeting: Reports, Vaccines, and more
In a meeting that lasted the better part of three hours, the board of health appointed officers, selected a candidate to recommend to the commissioners for replacing a board member, heard reports and answered questions. After an hour and forty minutes (when the audience had, admittedly, started to thin substantially), reports began. Team 56: It’s Read more
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On the Game Camera this week
The sound of ravens noisily calling and the presence of eagles in the field, led us to walk the wooded trails. We did indeed find a fawn, the victim of a predator. A game camera was moved to observe the predator’s return. No sightings of lions or coyotes on the game camera instead there were Read more
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Sharing the definition of Impeccable for the County Clerk
A January 13 article in the Tobacco Valley News described how a box of ballots was left behind on November 3 and counted days later. The Western News in Libby brought the matter to light on January 5. The kudos and praise belong to our local press – blunders such as this need to be Read more
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Board of Health to Meet Wednesday (1/13)
The Lincoln County Board of Health is meeting Wednesday? To discuss what? A number of things, among them changing the procedures for public comment. Of course, it’s not entirely clear from the Agenda what precisely the board is expecting to talk about, but there are number of action items included. The Lincoln County Board of Read more
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Do you get all the Government you pay for?
The area represented by the Lincoln County High School district has 31.8% of the county’s population, and provides 45.5% of the tax dollars that fund county government. Libby, where most of the county government occurs, has 50% of the county’s population, and provides 36.1% of the taxes that fund county government. I guess it’s a… Read more
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