Fencing with my editor and other stuff. February 22, 2024 I’ll post my latest Reader Article when its up online. I asked the editor about it and he wasn’t finished uploading. He kidded me… Continue Reading
The Last Eight Days, Reader column published Oct 3, 2003 January 28, 2024 I don’t go back and read old columns often but I’ve begun to do that as I mine ideas for my possible race against… Continue Reading
A note about the passing of a school board colleague of mine August 23, 2022 The photo in the Tribune doesn’t do Laura Condon justice. Laura was no nonsense when I worked with her but she didn’t glower. She… Continue Reading
Four old buddies March 25, 2022 My latest Reader Column This is the real voodoo doll I used https://www.snowbizz.com/images/Animations/spinvoodoo.gif Continue Reading
“Harry would you stop growling?” January 20, 2022 A few minutes ago I headed back upstairs to continue writing a post titled: “Elementary Ed, my first plunge.” It was starting to metastasize… Continue Reading
Two days of Subbing December 10, 2021 Its Friday and I was invited to sub today but declined. Tuesday and Wednesday were both eight hour days. I managed well enough and… Continue Reading
The current column in the Reader November 20, 2021 The poor old Duluth Reader is having trouble keeping its online version up with its paper version so I can no longer guarantee a… Continue Reading
Prattling on – First day as a sub November 20, 2021 I told some of the five classes I “taught” yesterday at Harbor City International that I hadn’t subbed in a class since 1983. That… Continue Reading
Published May 13, 2004, teared up reading it November 18, 2021 Not Eudora By Harry Welty Published Feb 19, 2004 Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff A tribute to Dorothy Neumann Dorothy Neumann, late of the… Continue Reading
“Seeing Red,” My long misarchived column found November 17, 2021 My archiving work keeps turning up lost or misplaced items. One such last night was the letter my Grandfather wrote to my mother after… Continue Reading
Not Eudora endorses Loren Martell October 26, 2021 I’m voting for Loren Martell It begins: Other than me, no has kept a closer eye on the Duluth School Board for the last… Continue Reading
I pay attention…..1998 and a little extra (It might make you smile) September 20, 2021 4-20-98 Dear When one in five Duluth teachers writes and tells me to pay attention, I pay attention. I wrote personal letters to the… Continue Reading
I found a photo of me that I don’t recall seeing before September 15, 2021 Perhaps it was only posted to the web or perhaps I’ve simply forgotten it. I do look serious. It was the announcement of a… Continue Reading
Historian of the School Board August 23, 2021 I sent in my seventh consecutive weekly column to the Reader over the weekend. It was cobbled together from about six previous stabs at… Continue Reading
Sitting and Thinking July 16, 2021 Standards will save us or they will be the death of us all. Or maybe neither. The Editor of the Reader chose a much… Continue Reading
Duluth-School-Board-approves-31.5-million-for-new-admin-building-transportation-center June 25, 2021 IDK (I don’t know) if many people read the Duluth News Tribune any more but a few years ago this story would have raised… 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
Democracy on the Cheap December 11, 2020 My latest Duluth Reader column: It begins: “The Duluth School Board is contemplating changing school board elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years.” Read… Continue Reading
I’ve gotten out of the habit of recommending Loren Martel’s articles… June 5, 2020 …about the Duluth Schools. I’m near the “been there, done that” stage of my school board experience. But I always read Loren. This week’s… Continue Reading
Old media criticism of mine still holds up May 6, 2020 I’m reviewing old columns of mine and putting them in order. Here’s one that is actually current regarding the possible selling of Old Central…. Continue Reading
