JCI and the Duluth Schools 8-26 August 26, 2013 I’ve just written a fund raising letter in which I’ve highlighted JCI’s potential culpability to meet the promises it made to Duluth and my… Continue Reading
JCI makes up for ripping Duluth off December 9, 2010 A couple years ago after I wrote a column published in the Trib criticizing JCI its salesmen Jeff Schlitz wrote rebuttal telling us what… Continue Reading
About that JCI Steam Plant arbitration August 7, 2010 Everything seemed to be working out between JCI and the City of Duluth over the Steam Plant last April. Since then the City Council… Continue Reading
JCI a target of Duluth’s legislative agenda April 21, 2010 I’m in Florida for a few days visiting family. My head has been elsewhere so I’ve missed a few chances to harp on my… Continue Reading
Meanwhile at JCI’s other Duluth embarrassment April 5, 2010 From the DNT’s Saturday April 4th Front Page Story on the Steam Plan rip off. Johnson Controls guaranteed to produce actual savings of $6.23… Continue Reading
1032 visitors yesterday… October 24, 2013 …and not from Russia. (I’ve been getting strange hits from a few other countries that may be little more than an attempt to saddle… Continue Reading
Who without fanfare or celebration x’s 2 January 3, 2013 My wife noticed a new free magazine the other day, The Duluth Quarterly” and squinted at it hard before turning up her nose at… Continue Reading
Compare and contrast newspaper vigilance – Yay December 18, 2012 Calling a spade a spade. It’s time for state officials to address JCI’s activities by Marshall Helmberger Publisher, Timberjay Newspaper Tower, Minn. When is… Continue Reading
A meditation – Pt 4 November 26, 2012 “None of this is new information.” That is the concluding sentence in the columns opening paragraph. It is intended to be dismissive of charges… Continue Reading
Speaking of effrontery March 22, 2012 Coming from the Chairman of the School Board whose decision to betray Duluth voters and tax them to high heaven leading to the evaporation… Continue Reading
George Balach on Dixon June 24, 2011 Succinct and pithy: On Keith Dixon: things to remember. He was offered the job when preferred candidates withdrew. He came from Faribault, Minn., where… Continue Reading
Another blot against JCI July 17, 2010 Maybe the confidence expressed (two posts ago) in JCI’s consultancy by the St. Louis County school board was misplaced. No doubt, school officials are… Continue Reading
Whoopee! September 18, 2009 I didn’t go and I didn’t watch but I got several reviews of last night’s meeting. The Board was positively giddy by all reports… Continue Reading
I have a master’s degree! August 10, 2009 A couple posts on the Trib’s online comment section show that six weeks of bashing Red Plan critics have given the School Board a… Continue Reading
Smokestacks in the news July 24, 2009 Its not often that the Trib features two smokestack pictures in a single day. Page 1 of the A Section featured the Denfeld Smokestack… Continue Reading
$3 million short! July 23, 2009 Golly, I just got word that you can expect the Duluth News and Chamber of Commerce Tribune to cover a kind of embarrassing story… Continue Reading
9/11 remembrance September 11, 2019 Maybe when the campaign is over I’ll push everything to the side and spend all my time on the darned book I’m hawking. But… Continue Reading
Anticlimactic Moody Mulch meeting and a jab back at the editors of the Trib November 14, 2017 I am beginning my posts today with a throw away post about yesterday’s Business Committee meeting. I post it because I’ve tried to provide… Continue Reading
From Bullies to BFFs October 15, 2014 Four and a half hours of sleep. For me, these days, not bad. At 4:30AM I decided to walk half mile down hill to… Continue Reading
About those swimming pools – Pt. 1 October 27, 2012 Part of the justification for building the Red Plan was that the District would save a great deal on energy costs. JCI estimated it… Continue Reading