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PETER MOST: The school funding formula that defies logic

Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.

EYES TO THE SKY: Dark sky, crescent moons – zodiacal light

During the months on either side of the spring and autumn equinoxes, there’s an elusive phenomenon, the zodiacal light, a glowing cone of light that is visible only in very clear and very dark skies.

EYES TO THE SKY: Mars, the almost all-night bright planet

The luminous, ruddy planet seemed to be an ember in the dark sky, yellowish Saturn to its left, both atop the beautiful Scorpion constellation.

EYES TO THE SKY: Winter Solstice journey to Orion nebula

Among students of the cosmos the Orion Nebula is one of the most studied of deep space phenomena.
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