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A Few More Graphs
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How to Survive a School Board Meeting
So you want to attend a school board meeting? What should you bring? What to know: As a member of the public, you don’t get to comment unless recognized by the board, and board policy limits your public comment to three minutes. Read more
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Spending Other People’s Money
A century ago, our nation’s varied governments – local, state and federal – spent about 4% of the country’s gross domestic product. Now I see a quote that it’s about 36%. To the north, I see that the folks who manage their retirement funds increased that value by 8% – on a playground where things Read more
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Rural Schools Look for Ways to Bring More Multilingual Education into the Curriculum
by Lane Wendell Fischer and Olivia Weeks, The Daily YonderMay 22, 2024 Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban Read more
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Repost: This week in ’88: Murder for Hire Charges Dismissed
Murder for Hire Charges Dismissed James R. Houchin stopped by right after we’d finished last week’s edition. He had with him a copy of Judge R. D. McPhillips’ order releasing him. Houchin had, along with DeBoar, been busted for ‘conspiracy to commit the offense of Deliberate Homicide’. As McPhillips noted, “the person to be killed Read more
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Identifying Images Doesn’t Prove You Aren’t a Robot
Sometimes, things look like they’re doing one thing, but are secretly doing something else. Those internet CAPTCHA tests are a good result. Identify some warped sequence of letters and numbers, or more recently pick out items in pictures, and that proves you aren’t a robot? Not quite. What actually proves you aren’t a robot is Read more
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