Happy Cinco de Maya & We didn’t stiff our lawyers! May 15, 2009 I used to joke that I had eight loyal readers. I did it when I wrote Not Eudora columns for the Northland Reader and… Continue Reading
Piedmont promises broken May 15, 2009 This email from a Piedmont Height’s residents helps explain why the Red Plan is turning that neighborhood into a Hermantown suburb: I was at… Continue Reading
The exodus May 15, 2009 This is an old graph from the Trib. Its shows the enrollment decline of ISD 709 and the increase of just one area charter… Continue Reading
and the Mason jar May 15, 2009 The understaffed Duluth News Tribune which can’t muster the manpower to properly report the Red Plan got a little help from the editorial board…. Continue Reading
Laches with a wet noodle May 14, 2009 I just got a call from the taxpayer’s attorney Craig Hunter. He’d received a fat juicy packet from the lawyers representing the School District…. Continue Reading
The delusion of shiny new schools May 13, 2009 The Red Plan Koolaid maintains that new schools will bring students into our schools. In fact, Ordean High will be built 20% than necessary… Continue Reading
That meeting you didn’t hear about May 13, 2009 There was quite a Duluth City Planning Commission meeting last night. The room was jam packed with concerned Ordean residents. And of course they… Continue Reading
“when one elected official calls another___ , it’s a story” May 13, 2009 Trib City Reporter Brandon Stahl explains his story on a not so private tête-à -tête between City Councilors in his blog BuzzDuluth today. He says:… Continue Reading
Since December? May 13, 2009 This letter-to-the-editor in today’s Trib from yet another person I’ve never met, John Jelatis, is right on target until the last paragraph. “Questions about… Continue Reading
WADMs Beyond amazing May 12, 2009 I’ve written about the hemorrhaging of Duluth students out of the Duluth School District before. Those figures are still being compiled and when they… Continue Reading
Amazing May 12, 2009 Amazingly the spouse of a Duluth School Board member endorses the Red Plan today in a letter to the editor. Even more amazingly his… Continue Reading
Wasson vs. Worley Smackdown May 11, 2009 The School Board’s Ann Wasson virtually dismissed Landscape Architect Kent Worley’s criticisms of the Ordean High School site as the rantings of a crank…. Continue Reading
Colonizing America in the Twenty-first Century May 11, 2009 I found this economic prediction disturbingly plausible. If it happens it will be the result of the United States standing on its “full faith… Continue Reading