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-Benjamin Franklin
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What Our Legislatures are Up To: House Bill 567
House Bill 567 has passed the house and awaits senate review. The bill is designed to incentivize increased cooperation between school districts at the county level. Multi-District Agreements between districts take many forms: Curriculum cooperatives and special education cooperatives are a common means of resource sharing. This bill increases the quality educator payment that districts Read more
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Bankruptcy For HBC
It seems more significant than the Trump tariffs. The predictions are that this week, the Hudson’s Bay Company will declare bankruptcy. The Bay company has been in business since 1670 – I think it is the longest continuously operating business in North America. Obviously it’s a coincidence that HBC is also an abbreviation for Here Read more
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Life Before Daylight Savings Time
I was in high school when they passed Daylight Savings Time. Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act of 1966 into law. To be brutally frank, I didn’t regard LBJ as one of our great presidents – there’s still a distant echo that translates to “Hey, hey, LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?” Read more
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Surviving Isn’t the Same as Recovery
Renata returned from church with the observation that a friend didn’t want an obituary that included “a valiant battle with cancer.” I understood. Simply enough, I felt the same way. The thing about cancer is that the only person who lost the battle with cancer is Henrietta Lacks. Her tumor survives, HeLa cells are in Read more
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Chris Impey, University of Arizona A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light Read more
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Education- the Last 50 Years
I won’t be serving another term on Trego’s school board. I’ve gone past 75, and the body just doesn’t have what it takes – the simplest way to describe it is that I can’t handle the heartburn anymore. I see that, at the federal level, there’s a lot of commentary about waste in education – Read more
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