The Atom Bomb Part 1, School Board Chair Seliga-Punyko’s scheme to stay in office without facing… May 6, 2015 …an election decided by the voters. Yesterday’s DNT Opinion page had two editorials relating to our elections in Minnesota. The second pointed out how… Continue Reading
Grover, Cameron, Seliga-Punyko as cheerleaders for levies November 10, 2011 Reading this story of three board members blaming another for the failure of the operational levies brought the following history to mind. 1997, Tim… Continue Reading
Judy Judy Judy January 29, 2009 I’ve just been reviewing that silly column Judy Seliga-Punyko had published in the Trib. She begins: “I attended the open house this week at… Continue Reading
What Judy must be thinking April 11, 2008 Today’s Trib has a letter-to-the-editor from Bill Punyko the husband of the new School Board member Judy Seliga-Punyko. Its a pretty crude appeal to… Continue Reading
My award for public service November 20, 2017 Today I received a friendly letter from the Minnesota School Board Association. It informed me that I had attained the “President’s Award” for 2017-2018…. 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
I’ve never met a school board candidate who didn’t want to help educate children… August 30, 2017 … So what? The last ten year’s worth of Duluth School Board members reduced the local taxes going into our classrooms from $14 million… Continue Reading
School Board filing notice June 28, 2017 I find waking up in the middle of the night to mull over problems that can only be dealt with during the day very… Continue Reading
I got Waxed – Citizens United June 7, 2017 Its hard to believe that its only been a couple days since I got waxed last Saturday. I’ve been in non stop school board… Continue Reading
I write a pretty good letter March 2, 2017 I’m back to 2009 posts in my apostraphe replacement labors. I just read my letter endorsing four candidates for the school board in 2009… Continue Reading
How things looked to our School Board… March 2, 2017 …before anyone toted up the damage they were doing. I’ve been taking a trip back through time looking at old posts with the nonsense… 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
Zero Hour’s beginnings twelve years ago May 13, 2016 Tonight I decided to look through old scribblings of mine thinking that I might be able to cobble a book together for use in… Continue Reading
Speaking of Gibberish May 13, 2016 Loren Martell finally reviewed our meeting two Monday’s ago at which I’d hoped we would begin to negotiate a potential sale of Central to… Continue Reading
Not all ISD 709 teachers are union Zombies May 6, 2016 I’ve received a number of emails from District staff desperate to sell Central who offered eloquent reasons for doing so. I don’t want to… Continue Reading
Necroscopy of a meeting – Part 5 May 4, 2016 On the inevitability of a new Edison Duluth Reader columnist, John Ramos, has weighed in on Monday’s special school board meeting. Interestingly, he’s not… Continue Reading
Necroscopy of a meeting, Part 4 May 3, 2016 http://www.fox21online.com/news/local-news/duluth-school-board-says-no-to-edison-once-again/39349092 When I got home Fox was on and I just caught myself before I handed a subway sandwich to Claudia. Late night dining…. Continue Reading
DO OVER FALLOUT 11 – Finally as promised – I WRITE A LETTER TO BERNIE April 16, 2016 March 15, 2016 Bernadette Burnham President, Duluth Federation of Teachers 639 E Central Entrance Duluth, MN, 55811 Dear President Burnham, I invited you to… Continue Reading
Swords/Plowshares 28 – Fear Mongering – Special Education March 31, 2016 Disclaimer Opponents of the Central Sale are suggesting that Edison is sticking it to ISD 709 because of Special Education. Judy Seliga-Punyko is the… Continue Reading
Swords/Plowshares # 15 – The retired Board March 29, 2016 Disclaimer In addition to the 17 ISD 709 staff who rained on Edison’s parade we had three recently self retired School Board members weigh… Continue Reading