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Month: October 2013

My old buddy loves the Simon and Garfunkel song Kodachrome

October 14, 2013

He won’t read my blog any more because I’m so bigoted against Republicans but I’ve got to say my life is a lot easier…

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A Brainer

October 14, 2013

Last week the DNT endorsed two District candidates for the School Board. One was described as a “no brainer” endorsement. I’m not sure I…

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A scramble of words to live by

October 13, 2013

I’ve currently got four adages competing for space in my head. One of them is primal and comes from my elementary school years. It’s…

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Nevermind those impressive blog stats from yesterday

October 13, 2013

I just checked to see how many visitors my blog had yesterday. You might recall I said that by 10AM it was an impressive…

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Saving the Duluth Public Schools Pt. 1 a new thread

October 12, 2013

I’ve predicted disaster for the Duluth Schools for six years. When I ran for the School board in 2006 Duluth wasn’t ready for that…

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Why I blog at night – to get back to sleep

October 12, 2013

In my “weepy” interview with Jana Hollingsworth she asked me why I get up at night to write. She did not say write my…

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Blind faith and the levy referendum

October 10, 2013

This lady nailed the District’s problem getting people to support its levy requests in a letter to the editor. Her conclusion: Until the School…

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Malkovich does an interview – gets all weepy

October 10, 2013

Well no. It wasn’t Malkovich doing an interview. It was me. I had an appointment to explain myself to the Trib’s lonely Education reporter…

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Sorry Mom

October 10, 2013

I always try to visit my Mom every four of five days. I should have peeked in on her today to sing but there…

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Watch out for the Jersey Turnpike

October 10, 2013

Those select cinefiles who have watched the peculiar movie “Being John Malkovich” will understand this reference. That’s because the much esteemed actor, Malkovich, who…

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My impression of Carnac the Magnificent

October 8, 2013

I was going to explain “high fives” which I mentioned in the last post. I thought I might have described them in some much…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 7 – What does Frank want?

October 8, 2013

i recommend starting this series from the beginning. Frank rallies in his conclusion. He’s barred his bare bottoms to the School board like Mel…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 6 – Is Frank ignorant of our teacher’s pain?

October 8, 2013

Not hardly! “If teachers work harder, have more responsibility, reach more kids, put in longer days and produce impressive results there is a reward….

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 5 – Cherry Picking

October 8, 2013

I’ll spare you Frank’s recitation of the School Board’s chintzy offer of 0% raises. As you might imagine he is offended. How does he…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 4 – What the DFT’s go along policy has wrought

October 8, 2013

Frank unloads the many burdens placed upon teacher’s backs by the School Board. “Talk about a modest proposal. This is it. We don’t want…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 3 – Picking Wanner apart

October 8, 2013

In the next few posts I’ll paste in selected passages of Frank’s wounded prose to stick needles through starting with what this sorrowful missive…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 2 – A balancing act

October 8, 2013

I hope you haven’t fallen under Frank’s spell with his long sentences with their mesmerizing clauses: “The new school year has started. Teachers have…

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The Teacher’s Contract Pt 1 – Vintage Wanner

October 8, 2013

I haven’t had the pleasure of skewering a Frank Wanner screed in a fourteen years. Until our my School Board hired Julio Almanza I…

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The Teacher’s Contract prologue: “Are those jobs really gone?”

October 8, 2013

I was holding this piece off for my Not Eudora column after the election. However, it seems timely: ”Are those Jobs Really Gone?” When…

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New Threads

October 8, 2013

I probably typed 5,000 to 10,000 words up yesterday not all for the blog. As I told a coorespondent I have a small but…

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