I got an email on defamation this morning that I want to publish. I’ve asked for permission before I run it. Stay tuned. ********************************** I got the go ahead. This comes from the Chief editor……if that the right title……………of the monthly Zenith City Weekly. It has a companion website. I think the presence of Duluth’s […]
Last Question first. Incidentally, if you win the nomination—and Minnesota does tend to get a wild hair up our butts and vote for some long shot not named Humphrey—but if you win the primary, will you postpone your trip to France? Before I answer, a quick note to readers and voters. Jennifer and I go […]
You will no longer find the conversation from the previous post on the Western Duluth Lens Facebook Page. Its a dodgy page with only a few scant posts imitating a pro-Western Duluth “Collaborative.” Its anonymous. There is no way to know who administers it. Its administrators paid to have a post taking my words out […]
On the Flight back I finished up William Allen White’s book and then began the book “Minnesota Rag” by Fred Friendly I bought the book two years ago at the suggestion of one of Art Johnston’s attorneys. It too is short and fascinating. I was especially drawn to Friendly’s comments on “defamation” which I have […]
Donald Trump is not a Jew hating Adolph Hitler and the United states in 2016 is not the desperate post-war Weimar Republic still reeling from the devastation of World War I. That said, I’ll mention the similarities I see with Hitler’s rise to power and the Trump Campaign which has led many Republican Newspapers to […]
One after another of Duluth’s six school board candidate’s have spoken in praise of transparency. I like the talk. I want to see the walk. So, will today’s candidates for the school board turn the Duluth Schools around? I don’t know but I completely agree with the Tribune’s editors that there is hope based on […]
This story begins with Part one. Cheryl Lien is a very good teacher. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX taken out at Art Johnston’s request XXXXXXXXXXX MRS. LIEN HAS BEEN GIVEN A REPRIEVE BY A MOST UNUSUAL BENEFACTOR. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ISN’T MUCH LEFT OF THIS ORIGINAL POST. ALL THAT IS LEFT IS THE FIRST SENTENCE AND THE […]
Yesterday, Sunday, I attended the memorial celebration for Al France. Al was one of the movers and shakers in Duluth and in his late eighties at his death so this celebration of 300 plus looked to me like the power elite of Duluth twenty years ago. When I told this to Claudia, afterwards, she said […]
…to award Art Johnston the summary judgement his attorneys requested because of the Board’s obvious lack of good faith in negotiating some amicable peace instead of relying on the Rice Report to continue to insist that he is a dangerous, violent man. I posted the resolution on the blog the day before yesterday without reading […]
Not long ago a fan came up to Claudia and I and gushed that he/she was glad that I “named names” in my blog. Claudia’s eyes narrowed and at breakfast yesterday after dropping our grandsons off at their schools we had a heart to heart. As I’ve said before Claudia doesn’t read this blog. She […]
The official source for all the blather of the eccentric Harry Welty – Duluth School Board member, off and on, since 1995. He does his best to live up to Mark Twain's assessment: "First God created the idiot. That was for practice. Then he invented the School Board."