Trego's Mountain Ear

It’s time.  It has been a challenging six years.  When I started, Trego was funded at 4 ANB – ANB is how the Office of Public Instruction abbreviates  “’average number belonging”.  Four  isn’t very many students.  Our first challenge was to change that downward trend.  The second challenge was the lack of a county superintendent Read more

I spent a couple of hours Sunday on a task I didn’t want to do.  The decision to give me an unwanted task was made by someone saving time – driving a little too fast for the conditions, and leaving me with a badly injured doe in the middle of the trailer court. The task Read more

I’m still operating on the premise that, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about US politics, we’re benevolently ignorant of how politics work in Canada.  I’m pretty sure it was Trev Edwards – an architecture student from Edmonton back in my undergrad days – that shared that observation with me.  That’s close to sixty years Read more

So I see a facebook posting that lists Murphy’s Law as ‘the more you fear something, the more likely it is to occur.’  Would have been a surprise to Murphy, who said “If anything can go wrong, it will.”  Sam sent me another AI generated theme that claimed “No person, no problem” came from the Read more

In the US, the Supreme Court ruled secession illegal in Texas v White (1869).  Admitted, this occurred after the Justice Department dropped the treason case against Jefferson Davis – for fear that a Virginia jury would have supported the idea that once Mississippi seceded, Davis was no longer a citizen of the United States, and Read more

These maps are taken from the county website, and I believe that they were drawn up in the county planner’s office.  I also believe that the school district map is in error – when the railroad relocation occurred, Trego school district boundaries were presented as shown in the voter precinct map: The next illustration shows Read more