Red Plan Fallout August 27, 2013 My responses to the neighbors of Rockridge School who are concernd about the now vacant school’s future use: Thank you for sending me your… Continue Reading
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
My Zealotry August 23, 2013 It took a second reading of the Trib’s editorial endorsement for me to grasp the Editor’s failure to really understand me. I was called… Continue Reading
Cool August 23, 2013 Perhaps this blog is the DNT’s editorial caveat that I have not always used my knowledge for good in their otherwise ringing endorsement of… Continue Reading
The levy referendum August 21, 2013 The Tribune’s Jana Hollingsworth worked overtime last night to carefully explain how the District’s finances work vis a vis the proposed operational levies that… Continue Reading
My first Board meeting in five years or so August 21, 2013 It was hot when I picked up Liam to walk him over to the School Board meeting. Liam had asked to attend with me…. Continue Reading
The Op Ed piece I withdrew today August 20, 2013 I’ve got a broom By Harry Welty, candidate for the Duluth School Board, at large Duluth’s schools weren’t broke. We fixed them anyway. Now… Continue Reading
The best thing I’ve read about our schools … August 20, 2013 …in the Duluth News Tribune in recent years. From at-large candidate Loren Martell: We have to rein in spending now. We have to get… Continue Reading
The second best thing I’ve read about our schools… August 20, 2013 …in the Duluth News Tribune in recent years: Hand the voters the decision to raise taxes: Superintendent Bill Gronseth is recommending that the Duluth… Continue Reading
Posts I don’t have time to make August 20, 2013 I left a note on my keyboard about other posts I should make related to the meeting I attended with DFL legislators yesterday. Its… Continue Reading
I’m giving up swimming with my Grandsons this morning … August 20, 2013 …to campaign for the School Board. What sacrifices won’t I make for the Duluth Schools and this on a day with temps that feel… Continue Reading
The new school funding formulas – straight from the donkey’s mouths August 19, 2013 I took advantage of the District’s invitation to hear our local legislators and the DFL Speaker of the House Paul Thissen explain the new… Continue Reading
Bad credit August 16, 2013 More bad news for ISD 709. Moody’s has dropped its credit rating down another notch. Investments are rated by Moody’s from best to worst… Continue Reading
Stuff happens and then you die AND moon dust August 16, 2013 Other than substituting a saltier four letter word with the soft gauzy nothing “Stuff” there is truth to this unexceptional saying. (Moon dust will… Continue Reading
Dialogue on the Red Plan August 15, 2013 So far the DNT coverage does not bode well for a referendum let alone an expansion of it. Today a “Follow-up” of a cogent… Continue Reading
One reason ISD 709 better hope that a referendum passes… August 14, 2013 …is this story about the Northstar Academy’s current decision not to begin a new high school. If a referendum fails there will be increasing… Continue Reading
That damned fence is finally painted August 14, 2013 And it looks really pretty and white. Thank you for helping Claudia. As a bonus we weeded the garden next to it. Now maybe… Continue Reading
One more day of painting… August 13, 2013 …and thank goodness. I may be alienating my voters with posts like the last one but pretty soon I’ll have a lot more time… Continue Reading
The Republican Party gone Bonkers August 13, 2013 Bonkers here could be replaced by the words Paranoid, Daffy, Bat shit, Wing-nut, you name it. Here’s more evidence of the rotting from the… Continue Reading
Honey Bunches of Bugs August 13, 2013 I’m determined to finish the last day long project of the summer. It one I’ve been planning to do for three years. Until its… Continue Reading