What the City Council giveth they can taketh away September 10, 2016 The banner headline in yesterday’s DNT trumpeted the City’s brave attempt at transparency by replacing “street fees” from Duluth utility bills with honest to… Continue Reading
Everyone is saying the Planning Dept.’s decision to scuttle the DPSA High School has nothing to do with politics. May 25, 2016 I find that very hard to believe: Hamre said that if Edison had pushed forward with those requests, and the city planning commission followed… Continue Reading
Why can’t the School Board do this? May 11, 2016 For the past couple years I’ve repeatedly whined that the School Board ought to make emails sent to it part of the public domain…. Continue Reading
Singin with Councilor Anderson April 30, 2016 I had four glorious hours of something fun. My daughter went with me over to St. Scholastica’s Mitchell Auditorum today and spent the day… Continue Reading
A libertarian comes back to bite. August 19, 2015 My Buddy (the libertarian) weighed in on the last post: Harry: But didn’t Camus write about this in The Myth of Sisyphus? Jeez. If… Continue Reading
Doing the right thing November 6, 2014 It was reported tonight that Council President Linda Krug stepped down from her post after suffering a great deal of criticism for her recent… Continue Reading
My horselaugh of the day November 5, 2014 Woke up listening to NPR’s election coverage when I heard Claudia burst into a loud laugh from a couple rooms away. I knew it… Continue Reading
I’ve got the day to myself January 31, 2014 And I intend to put it to use filing. Claudia and my daughter are making a day of it in the Twin Cities to… Continue Reading
Howie October 4, 2013 I went to some song and dance meeting at 8AM this morning to talk about healthy schools. I probably scared the bejesus out of… Continue Reading
I endorse this editorial September 9, 2013 As one of the nine School Board members who created and or protected the “ten percent reserve” which ended up at about $23 million… Continue Reading
Pavement and rain August 2, 2012 I got a call Monday asking me if I could help our fellow Presbyterians at Westminster Prez over on Grand Ave next to Denfeld… Continue Reading
The wrong horseshoe February 9, 2012 I can’t really believe what I heard recently – that our new East High school only has one janitor. I had heard that rather… Continue Reading
Making a “good plan into a great plan.” December 19, 2011 Loren Martell, still licking his wounds from losing to a clueless incumbent, offers his latest critique of the Red Plan and the Board that… Continue Reading
Suddenly the City is all over Central High School November 18, 2011 A bitter emailer comments on the City’s plans for the Duluth School District’s excess property: The city stood quietly by when the school district… Continue Reading
Something I couldn’t write when my blog was down October 11, 2011 I couldn’t have said it better than this letter writer did in the DNT: This letter is about the property tax issue. I had… Continue Reading
Virgil’s swing… September 3, 2011 …is not a miss. Only his Budgeteer column is missing from the DNT’s online site. That’s too bad. He points out that the public… Continue Reading
A City Council candidate against the Red Plan July 27, 2011 And I almost didn’t read this: All of us are going to be on welfare soon because of this Red Plan. You people who… Continue Reading
As the Red Planners kept reminding us… May 8, 2011 …our leaders were elected to make such decisions. A short, sour and altogether honest assessment of some of our current City Fathers, several of… Continue Reading
From the Past February 27, 2011 Sent to me by an email friend: News Tribune Feb. 23, 1971 * Members of the Duluth School Board were asked yesterday to support… Continue Reading
This non plusses me too February 3, 2011 In addition to Sunday liquor sales for Minnesota Senator Reinert will also introduce legislation to take the Aquarium monkey off the Duluth City Council’s… Continue Reading
