What does it profit a man….. July 28, 2022 NOTE: I JUST COUNTED THIS POST AND ITS GOT 2075 WORDS. I WILL NOT BE EDITING IT ANY TIME SOON ALTHOUGH I KNOW ITS… Continue Reading
A little more on Duluth School Board’s elections December 14, 2020 The following exposition is in reference to my most recent Reader Column Democracy on the Cheap. The editorial in the Duluth News Tribune championing… Continue Reading
Poetic justice January 15, 2019 https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/education/4556871-johnston-settles-duluth-school-board No doubt the insurance rep told the School Board that going to court would have cost considerably more than the settlement with Art…. Continue Reading
What is the the second most mysterious thing after the financing of Congressional campaigns? June 29, 2018 Trying to find out any public data concerning the Duluth Public Schools. …and I should know. I was kept in the dark for the… Continue Reading
Our Little Thing – 2, Addendum November 20, 2017 It is time for me to confess that Mary Rice, the attorney hired by the district to defame Art Johnston, was right to stress… 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
Thou Shalt Not Rat Out Our Friends“ Part 4 September 29, 2015 This series of posts begins here: Twelve years sped by, a couple of superintendents came and went, a half billion school building plan became… Continue Reading
Thou Shalt Not Rat Out Our Friends – Part 3 September 24, 2015 Notwithstanding Art’s request that I take down that post about old news I’ve decided that this is a story that needs to be told… Continue Reading
Art’s brief press release demonstrating . . . September 22, 2015 . . . his attorney’s contention that our ethic’s policy is as unconstitutional as it was when he first challenged the school board’s failed… Continue Reading
Art Johnston to the rescue July 24, 2015 I’ve been impatiently waiting for today’s John Ramos story in the Reader. He’s been covering the saga of the proposed $35 million library for… Continue Reading
Segregating Duluth June 30, 2015 In preparation for writing a book about what led up to this last disasterous year I found a couple interesting tidbits after dusting off… Continue Reading
“a small ‘vitriolic’ group” drives Mern out May 10, 2015 More from the old friend who voted to censure me last December. He’s chosen to not run for re-election, he said, because of a… Continue Reading
The Atom Bomb May 5, 2015 I’ve suspected that I may have unwittingly brought the Art Johnston Saga about. I told this to Jana Hollingsworth on the Day last June… Continue Reading
The Atom Bomb bay opens May 5, 2015 I waited in vain for someone on our delusional School Board to see the light. My fellow members could not overcome their vanity and… Continue Reading
The Big Lie May 5, 2015 Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be… Continue Reading
MAJ 6 – Mean Girls March 31, 2015 I’d suggest starting at MAJ 1 (Martyrdom of Art Johnston) Art and I have joked that the three women on our board remind us… Continue Reading
MAJ 5 – Posts March 25, 2015 As I get around to them I’ll start denoting some posts as MAJ meaning the Martyrdom of Art Johnston. NOTE: this addition posted on… Continue Reading
MAJ 4 – Ducks in a row March 25, 2015 Last week as I was rummaging through a file cabinet of family memorabilia I opened up a folder about my son. Inside were pictures… Continue Reading
