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Month: August 2014

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Taking the starch out of me

August 7, 2014

My last post resulted in my Buddy, oft mentioned in this blog, sending me a teasing but nonetheless serious question. To paraphrase he asked,…

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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…

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Throttling the Grizzly

August 6, 2014

Just short of 2AM I was in the midst of a colorful dream too peculiar to make sense of the details. I had been…

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The Board Chair suggests…

August 5, 2014

“The Board Chair suggests that it is usual and customary for elected officials to cover their own legal fees when it pertains to their…

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