Equity for Denfeld September 20, 2016 Last week’s Education Committee got very interesting at the 54 minute mark. Its finaly on Youtube. Continue Reading
Highs and lows. September 16, 2016 After my Congdon visit this morning I served lunch at the Damiano Soup Kitchen. Chicken gravy over fresh mashed potatos. It was very popular…. Continue Reading
Oswald Reference Services and a more successful visit to Congdon September 16, 2016 I am so glad Alanna Oswald is on the Board. Everything that I missed for the decade I was off the School Board she… Continue Reading
Mulch alternatives wait for no School Board September 15, 2016 Cory Kirsling, one of the Lester Park parents who successfully persuaded the School Board to come up with a new playground surface told me… Continue Reading
How yesterday started September 14, 2016 Yesterday I got a lousy night’s sleep. They seem to have come back again with the beginning of the School Year after a relatively… Continue Reading
So what did we talk about at Monday’s meeting? September 13, 2016 If Loren Martell’s intention to stop reporting on our school board meetings holds up it will be especially good that we are beginning to… Continue Reading
ISD 709 committee meeting video recordings September 13, 2016 Art, Alanna and I have been pushing to record our Committee meetings in addition to our monthy School Board meeting. We want more transparency… Continue Reading
A friend’s reaction to the discontinuance of Loren’s column September 9, 2016 The School Board is far better behaved these days. The Superintendent informed us that the faculty was thrilled to see us all on the… Continue Reading
In defense of mulch replacement September 8, 2016 Yesterday a smart critique of our (my) School Board’s decision to replace rubber tire mulch was published in the DNT. Rather than link to… Continue Reading
five suicides – NOT September 7, 2016 This is a correction of a recent post. In that post I incorrectly recalled that, once upon a time, the Duluth School District had… Continue Reading
Nibbling at my priorities September 5, 2016 In no particular order: A. I got this email from my Buddy and answered it. I won’t include my reply because it points a… Continue Reading
Gawping at gaps September 4, 2016 Loren Martell’s latest Reader column showed up online today. He mentioned our pontification heavy recent school board meeting that took three hours to complete… Continue Reading
An email I just sent with the subject heading: “A discussion of suicide” September 3, 2016 NOTE that I have corrected this post here. ******** I keep thinking about a truncated discussion we had on suicide after one of our… Continue Reading
I’m so glad Alanna Oswald is on the School Board with me September 3, 2016 From Alanna’s Facebook Page: Last night I visited a school open house, as a school board rep that I don’t have kids at. I… Continue Reading
20 PRIORITIES and a pleasure August 31, 2016 At the moment I seem to be suffering from priority paralysis. There are so many things I want to be doing I’m having a… Continue Reading
Pound foolish about our competition August 20, 2016 I heaped skepticism if not quite scorn on the idea that Duluth’s Catholic schools would be up to competing with ISD 709 by expanding…. Continue Reading
25 cents-an-hour fallout August 18, 2016 I will comment on this following email that I found in my inbox this morning shortly but I have a breakfast meeting in nine… Continue Reading
Breaking ISD 709’s bank 25 cents at a time August 17, 2016 It turns out that Senator Everett Dirksen never said “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” Evidently when he… Continue Reading
More competition for 709? August 17, 2016 I was about to link this post to the DNT story of how Duluth’s Catholic Arch Diocese is investigating the start up of a… Continue Reading
Tu tu kerfluffle August 16, 2016 I did some lobbying to open up some of our empty schools to help the Minnesota Ballet fix and store their storm damaged costumes…. Continue Reading
