Froid rallies for its neighbor arrested by ICE

By DARRELL EHRLICK | Editor-in-Chief

“I know a lot of people asking what they can do to help. Call the politicians. Call them. Call them, call them, call them, call them. Your local ones, the state level. Call, call, call." – Keith Nordlund, a resident of Froid, on Border Patrol detaining Roberto Orozco-Ramirez for deportation.

The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright is keeping an eye out on the extremely cold weather that has pummeled the eastern part of the United States and says the best way to ensure that Americans have enough heat and energy is to embrace the Trump administration’s plans of adding more fossil fuels.

Governors have routinely been invited to the White House by presidents to talk with the administration about issues facing the country, and also as a means for governors to talk and share concerns with the president. As with many other things, President Donald Trump has disinvited governors from Democratic states, breaking with decades of tradition.

As many states scramble to keep up with energy demands and try to keep costs low on an already squeezed consumer, many states are beginning to pass laws that would regulate how artificial data centers are being built.

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Not all the news is bad. In fact, there are interesting and resilient stories out there. They often get buried beneath a mountain of other frightful news. The Los Angeles Times reports that for the first time in a century, a wolf has been spotted in Los Angeles.

A story in The New York Times says that a massive database that studied the brains and growth of more than 20,000 young adults and children for years with the promise that the participants’ identities would be protected and the information used in certain ways recently discovered that some scientists have coopted the data and used it to further claims about some races being intellectually superior to others.

In a recent review of science, The New York Times is also reporting that vaccines have contributed more than previously thought to better health and longer lifespans among older adults.

So, if you’ve read Micah Drew’s excellent story about snowpack and water outlook (or the lack thereof), and you still aren’t worried, please, by all means, don’t look at the post from our friends in Park County. The weather is so weird even the bears are getting messed up.

Sometimes, you simply take some artists for granted. Whether it is a library full of music like Willie Nelson — whose actual album totals are difficult to calculate because of all of the “special albums” (think Christmas, Greatest Hits, duets, or even children’s albums), or whether it’s because artists just stick around forever. Previously on “The Hook,” we featured an article from July 1989 when the Rolling Stones were embarking upon their farewell tour. No one could have imagined Keith Richards living this long, or what an 80-year-old Mick Jagger would look like in leather pants. The thought of such things still hurts my brain. And a conservative number for Nelson pegs his albums at 143.

But another person whom I’ve listened to for years, Emmylou Harris, is one of those artists who seems to transcend time, and find an appeal that resonates generation after generation. That’s why when I was listening to her recently, I picked up on her fabulous remake of an old Everly Brothers tune. What makes it incredible is that the original song, “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad),” was made great by the Everlys because of their soaring harmonies. Instead, Harris’ own voice does the work of at least two singers by being both piercing and drowning in sorrow. It’s worth another listen, and her version of “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad” is an example of us taking her for granted. Truth be told: If any other singer did such a good job with the version, it would have been career-defining moment. Instead — for her — it’s just another deep track on a whole line of great albums.

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