Lex Anteinternet: Storm Clouds

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Storm Clouds

Yesterday we published this:

Lex Anteinternet: Gathering Storms.: Economists are openly speculating now that we may be entering a period of deflation. A drop in petroleum prices combined with a drop in so...

Today more disturbing headlines and news appeared in the Tribune.

Casper's Wyoming Machinery, a major industrial manufacturer in Wyoming, laid off 13% of its workforce. This comes on the heels of all sorts of other layoffs, large and small.

On the same day, the City of Casper announced that its budget for next year could fall 54%. Cheyenne has already had layoffs.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

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