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  • Third Party and Libertarians Votes High This Election

    Historically, independent voters, and voters for minor third parties, do not get a large percentage of votes. Often, they’re considered “spoiler” candidates, who lose the election for someone by dra4wing critical support away during a close race. Or their thought of as simply “protest candidates” with no chance of winning. In Montana, for the presidential Read more

  • A Few Post Election Graphs

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  • Here’s what happens when a school is located near a cannabis dispensary

    Editor’s Note: Sometimes it is necessary to state, research, and publish the obvious. In this case, the obvious is that having a cannabis dispensary near a school is not a great thing. Unless there are more of them than google wants to admit to, the nearest one to Eureka Elementary is about half a mile. Read more

  • Re-Post: Community Decay…Part 1

    Editor’s note: With recent events making waste disposal more interesting, I thought it worth reminding people of the ordinance the county health department enforces with regards to waste management. One could be forgiven for assuming that community decay ordinances were the business of rather fussy municipalities in places other than here. One would, as it Read more

  • Has Trump Started Social Class Consciousness

    I was listening to Victor David Hanson – and his comments suggested that Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition is becoming a working class coalition whose members are realizing that they have more issues  in common with other working class folks than they do with folks that are ethnically or racially the same.  It’s a thought – Read more

  • Still Politically Homeless at 75

    As a high school kid, I knew I was closer to being a Republican than a Democrat.  In those long ago days, I would have described myself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal – and there was room in the Republican party for Rockefeller, McCloskey and me.  In August of 1971, Nixon abolished the gold Read more