Month: May 2009

This is the phrase that keeps coming up where JCI and its Red Plan authority and management is concerned. I was amused to find…

JCI is busy selling new buildings and air conditioning to school district’s all over northern Minnesota. I’ve been fielding calls from residents of the…

I commented on last week’s sermon from the Budgeteer on Respect. It came out along with the Doty column disrespecting my “hooligans” at the…

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In two days I’ve seen the bowels of almost every school in the District. I toured them with architects from ATS&R who I’ve come…

One of the Faribault Schools Dr. Dixon built has a roof which failed three years before its expected lifetime. “The entire roof is leaking…

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I found this email waiting for me when I got back. I haven’t yet fixed the glitches I found as a result but I…

I spent the day touring school buildings with the President of ATS&R and an architect (both are architects). Their firm was awarded the contract…

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T I’D LIKE TO REPOST ITS CONCLUSION Damn it. The Trib is a shadow of its former self but its still…

DAMN. IT TOOK ME OVER 1,700 WORDS TO WRITE THIS AND I’M STILL NOT FINISHED. EXPECT FURTHER CHANGES. That might as well have been…

Geez, when I woke up I was afraid that explaining this story would fritter away some lovely yard raking weather. I’d already spent an…

Golly, a year after Grant Merritt began working on one of several possible legal challenges to the Red Plan the Trib finally covers the…

As to our progress: They keep coming in. We can handle an appeal or start a new lawsuit. Also, we’re planning a spaghetti dinner…

Lincolndemocrat pulled another 200 visitors today despite limited blogging. I’ll be on the road and unable to blog early ltomorrow so that will really…

One of the great mysteries to me is why, after a year of successfully delaying any consideration of Plan B, the District broke into…

Whatever else my complaints about the Trib’s coverage I can’t fault the Editorial Page. They put the grievances against the District regularly. I even…

Its always fun to wake up to your own voice on Minnesota Public Radio. Bob Kelleher did a nice little story about the $70,000…