Trego's Mountain Ear

A while back, we showed the official map of Lincoln County, drawn in 1910.  This week, we’re showing how the county looks after Libby Dam was completed, and the towns along the river were no more.  The present map of Lincoln County looks like this one: Water covers those old townsites between Rexford and Jennings Read more

This is a topic where I write with some experience – Robert Santos has resigned and will not be heading the Census Bureau.  Interestingly enough, Santos has been described as working to include overlooked communities – but from my perspective, as a rural demographer, one of the great losses that occurred during the past two Read more

Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act when it hears oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 16, 2024. This case asks the court to Read more

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Christopher Pollard, Deakin University Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books. The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. He was also Read more

It is Monday as I write this.  Half a century ago, I would have been beginning the February 1 run of Snow Surveys – driving a Ski-Doo Alpine that looked something like this: It was kind of like getting a job in heaven – every year we got one new snowmachine, and our oldest machine Read more