Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Part 1 July 17, 2015 Notes to Readers: This is the 2,699 word long letter/email I sent to the Duluth News Tribune’s Editorial Page Editor, Chuck Frederick, on 7-15-2015…. Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Part 2 July 17, 2015 Part 2 Art Johnston is a good guy. He just sent me the email he sent you. I don’t blame him for his anger…. Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Part 3 July 17, 2015 Part 3 In your email to Art you end it as engagingly as Art’s email engaged you. You sneeringly asked him if his lawsuit… Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Part 4A July 17, 2015 Part 4A Let me tell you one of my own stories about how the District goes about getting its way. The Red Plan handed… Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Part 4B July 17, 2015 Part 4B The next thing I know I get your call telling me about the story you were going to put in the next… Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Pt 5 July 17, 2015 Part 5 In the Dixon years the District has had its fingerprints on several such character assassinations. The first was committed by Ralph Doty… Continue Reading
In case you were curious…. July 17, 2015 … about my short term as a school board Chairman mentioned in the last post. I resigned after four months to stop a teacher’s… Continue Reading
I’m going to the Holy Land July 17, 2015 I’ve told myself over and over for the past year that I need to get out of town and take a vacation from the… Continue Reading
Go Set a Watchman July 17, 2015 News stories of particular interest to me have exploded over the past four or five months and yet I’ve hardly commented on them. The… Continue Reading
On Defamation July 17, 2015 I got an email on defamation this morning that I want to publish. I’ve asked for permission before I run it. Stay tuned. **********************************… Continue Reading
Our Ethic’s Kabuki Dance July 16, 2015 I’m not getting my undies in a bunch about the changes to our Ethics Policy that will almost certainly be approved at next week’s… Continue Reading
Menage à Trib July 16, 2015 I may have been ignoring my blog but not my writing. I spent Five hours yesterday writing a letter (email) to Chuck Frederick. It… Continue Reading
Two emails regarding . . . July 14, 2015 . . . this recent post on transparency. Hi Harry, Â Today, the recording for DEDA’s June meeting magically appeared on their website. I… Continue Reading
Rosie attends another school board campaign press conference July 13, 2015 Having attended Dr. Kirby’s televised announcement of his 2nd District candidacy a couple weeks ago Rosie Loeffler-Kemp was on the news again tonight as… Continue Reading
“No one will watch it” July 13, 2015 John Ramos wrote another interesting investigation into the City Government’s disinclination to keep its activities public in the Duluth Reader over the weekend: DEDA… Continue Reading
Seven days left to file for the Duluth School Board July 12, 2015 No one is watching the filings for the Duluth School Board more closely than I am. Some will no doubt be watching with an… Continue Reading
Unfriending July 10, 2015 My Buddy sent me an email today in response to my anecdote about the fellow who stopped his car by my house and asked… Continue Reading
Putting a thumb on the scale? July 9, 2015 A couple weeks ago as I was out planting rhubarb along my retaining wall on 21st a neighbor walked by and told me about… Continue Reading
Corrections – again July 9, 2015 When I learn that my blog needs correcting I usually oblige. Here are two more: 1. I wrote in “Last to know – as… Continue Reading
Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down July 9, 2015 Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today’s… Continue Reading