Face Cages for board members? September 8, 2014 My Buddy took a break from needling me for what he seems to regard as my muddled thinking about the challenges facing African Americans… Continue Reading
Swatting email gnats September 6, 2014 One sign of the Duluth School Board’s dysfunction can be found in the Board email box. For my first three months on the Board… Continue Reading
Martell is back in fine form September 6, 2014 I just read Loren Martell’s latest column detailing the antics of the Duluth School Board at its August meeting on the Duluth Reader’s website…. Continue Reading
Martell’s Heartbreak August 27, 2014 I met Loren Martell’s wife briefly once or twice at her back door when I delivered things to Loren a few years back. We… Continue Reading
Martell’s heartbreak – just kidding August 23, 2014 This is the fifth post in a series. To read them in order I’d suggest going back five posts ago to “Promises, Promises” and… Continue Reading
lie, lie, lie August 23, 2014 Chair Miernicki was so incensed by Mr. Martell’s assertion that he had abruptly adjourned the meeting with the state auditors that he wrote in… Continue Reading
Martell’s longer column in the Reader, post auditor August 23, 2014 I have already commented favorably on and linked to the earlier and extensive piece Loren Martell wrote for the Reader Weekly about the presentation… Continue Reading
Martell’s Tribune column, post auditor August 23, 2014 It was a brilliant summation of Mr. Martell’s position regarding the value of the long awaited and disappointing non audit by the State Auditor…. Continue Reading
Promises, Promises August 23, 2014 I’ve promised readers that I would explain my theory that one tool used in the courts is to impoverish court adversaries. This relates to… Continue Reading
Good news, Bad news August 21, 2014 The good news is that Minnesota tops the nation in ACT scores. The bad news is that its for our white students. I suspect… Continue Reading
A sane, fair, and neutral appraisal of the Duluth School Board August 21, 2014 One of the pleasures of being in the public eye is the chance to meet folks who are passionate about the same sort of… Continue Reading
How to still Fergusson and ISD 709 – Abracadabra August 20, 2014 Visitors to this blog know I opine about all sorts of stuff. The list on the right confirms that. But sometimes I switch to… Continue Reading
Whereas August 20, 2014 Tenacity and perseverance are usually held up as virtues. Stubbornness is not.I’m not sure where the issue of disclosing the truth about the Red… Continue Reading
Garbage in, Garbage out – for real this time August 18, 2014 Art Johnston noticed a couple figures in the millions in the Auditor’s report that didn’t make sense. The Trib’s education reporter noticed some of… Continue Reading
Garbage in, Garbage out – it turns out this is just a prologue August 14, 2014 Its 3:30AM. I’ll bank on the last post to keep you interested to see what I write here until I’m good and ready to… Continue Reading
Pulling our trousers down August 14, 2014 Prepare yourself for a little TMI. Not up on your acronyms? TMI = “too much information.” And to start this post at 2AM here’s… Continue Reading
Today’s third email between Chair Miernicki and me August 9, 2014 Mike to me: Harry, Again I hear “sweeping Red Plan under the carpet.” I agree with the News-Tribune. It is over. We need to… Continue Reading
It would be crazy for Duluth to spend a half a billion dollars on new schools… August 8, 2014 …so said Johnson Controls: . . . if you go back to the JCI salesman, Jeff Schiltz, he memorably said after the School Board… Continue Reading
The third email I sent Chair Miernicki today August 8, 2014 Mike, I just looked at the Red Plan amortization tables. It turns out the Red Plan didn’t cost just $435 million which is what… Continue Reading
Something our school board Chair chooses not to investigate August 6, 2014 Est. Red Plan cost 2007……..actual Red Plan costs today …..$257 mil. total……………………$310 mil. total ….-$ 34 mil. prof.services………-$ 84 mil. prof.services (soft costs) …..$223… Continue Reading
