Trego's Mountain Ear

I read that they are at the edge of developing PhD level artificial intelligence.  It sounds like a great accomplishment – but I have met some folks who hold a Ph.D. who aren’t necessarily all that bright.  My Ph.D. says that I can be trained.  It says that, with a bit of guidance and supervision Read more

Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University Doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly. And it gets even worse when there are delays and backlogs, making it especially hard to reach the Internal Revenue Service for assistance. But to me this raises an important question: Why should taxpayers have to navigate the tedious, costly tax Read more

School districts are expected to adopt standards for education, but they’re essentially required to adopt those published by the office of public instruction, and then allowed to add extras. At any rate, this does mean that ‘what every student is required by law, to learn’ is publicly available. I occasionally find myself looking through the Read more

I spoke with Noel Duram when he was still commissioner-elect, and he mentioned Singapore as an example of how waste management could be done.  He got me thinking, so I reviewed how Singapore deals with waste management – and it’s a complex system.  I listened to him at the community meeting in Trego, and he Read more

I don’t feel the need to subscribe to the New York Times – but there are occasions when the newspaper provides great information.  This time, it’s a map that shows how various areas voted in the last presidential election.  You can find it at: An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election Results: Trump vs. Read more