Trego's Mountain Ear

As I have watched the events lead up toward Presidential Election 2024, a few things are becoming clear.  One is that right wing or left wing doesn’t make a lot of difference when both wings are attached to a buzzard. Both parties are corporations.  If you don’t own stock in a corporation, the corporation doesn’t Read more

We take arabic numbers for granted, and rarely think how difficult multiplication and division would be with anything other than our positional system.  If you glance at Roman numbers like IV and XXVI, and think how difficult division would be, then realize that Roman numerals were an improvement on what the old Greeks had to Read more

Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results − a problem for science the pandemic worsened but didn’t create Dennis M. Gorman, Texas A&M University Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping acceptance rates relatively Read more

Hello, I would like to share my concerns about the formation of a library district, and another increase in my taxes. As you are aware our property appraisals went up 43%.  That translates to quite an increase in our taxes.  I am on a fixed income; I assure you no entity raised my income by Read more

I knew that I had measured the Kootenai’s lowest snowfalls.  I didn’t realize that the 1977 record still stood.  I don’t know if the record will still be standing in June – but right now, that seems to be the way to bet. Back then, it was global warming – and I was measuring record Read more

Texas Governor Abbott invoked Article 1, Section 10 of the US Constitution, which apparently empowers Texas to resist invasion when the Federal government won’t do the job.  Historically, Texas had an invasion by the Federal Government to resist back in 1836 – and since both 2024 and 1836 are leap years, it seems relevant to Read more