The exodus numbers are grim May 28, 2009 The District finally, reluctantly, released the latest losses to open enrollment from Duluth resident students fleeing to outlying school districts. From the Let Duluth… Continue Reading
The exodus May 15, 2009 This is an old graph from the Trib. Its shows the enrollment decline of ISD 709 and the increase of just one area charter… Continue Reading
Duluth student exodus December 16, 2008 I only just heard about this story in the Hermantown Star. It was from September. 325 or 16 percent of Hermantown students are open… Continue Reading
More on the Exodus September 10, 2008 I just got back from being out of town for the past six days. When I linked to the story about Central Students fleeing… Continue Reading
Central Exodus September 5, 2008 For several months the Administration has worked hard to encourage Central students to transfer out of the school. The Trib doesn’t mention this in… Continue Reading
Exodus April 16, 2008 The Red Plan turbulence is driving people out of the District to neighboring schools. I just got a call from Fox News and was… Continue Reading
Der des Der March 12, 2022 My French is improving but I have a long ways to go before I’ll be able to tackle my newly acquired version of Democracy… Continue Reading
Two shows to Stream April 22, 2020 I found this map in Wikipedia while reading the book on the black Death by Norman Cantor. Cantor mentions how the ignorant Europeans decided… Continue Reading
Still in a holding pattern August 8, 2019 One of my recent contributors sent me this post-it note with his donation qualifying him for a book he really nay not have any… Continue Reading
The DNT tosses my column in the circular file September 29, 2017 The Trib won’t run my column after all. According to Editor Chuck Frederick it was too much like this post from a couple days… Continue Reading
How are Donald Trump and the News Tribune Editors similar? September 26, 2017 In the first case: the US has suffered at least four straight climate crises, the fires out west and Hurricanes pounding Huston, Florida and… Continue Reading
The Siren song of the lotus flower September 1, 2017 As a child I was quite taken with Greek Myths. Reading the Odyssey in junior high I thought long and hard about the sailors… Continue Reading
Annie’s riposte to busses from Proctor et al June 20, 2017 Alanna Oswald posted on Facebook that she has been trying to get these figures for ages. They come from Jana Hollingsworth’s story about how… Continue Reading
We don’t want to build new schools for those Duluth kids! April 19, 2017 But we will bus them in so they can attend our old schools. Such was the overwhelming decision of Wrenshall’s voters in yesterday’s building… Continue Reading
School Maintenance – another gift of the Red Plan March 24, 2017 Today’s DNT readers learned that we are negotiating to get an acceptable offer to sell Nettleton School. Selling our empty schools was always part… Continue Reading
My Mulch Reply to Jennifer February 25, 2017 Jennifer, Such simple questions can lead to the longest more tortured answers. Here’s my tortured answer for you. By temperament I hate wasting money,… Continue Reading
Our “current state of affairs” September 22, 2016 In the light of this recent offer to take empty buildings off our hands the Central sale has been reanimateded – zombie like. A… Continue Reading
Segue from Mr. Robot to Megamind with some religion and poly sci. mixed in September 19, 2016 I just read a synopsis of Song of Solomon in a fat Bible Commentary to better understand what I had just read. The commentary… Continue Reading
A CORRECTION AND AN APOLOGY TO MY READERS May 29, 2016 First the apology: I posted a letter to the editor written by a Bruce Johnson and proceeded to beat up another Bruce Johnson that… Continue Reading
Holy COW – Committee of the Whole May 13, 2016 As we contemplate putting an end to, among other things, the Zero Hour due to an anticipated $3.3 million shortfall I’ve been noticing a… Continue Reading
