Our old schools were supposed to fetch us $26 million June 30, 2015 The center piece overlooks Duluth’s Down town. From tomorrow’s Tribune: The Duluth Central High School development project agreement — touted as a much needed… Continue Reading
Segregating Duluth June 30, 2015 In preparation for writing a book about what led up to this last disasterous year I found a couple interesting tidbits after dusting off… Continue Reading
Somebody’s Knocking on my Door June 29, 2015 After a week or more of blog inactivity but mental overload its, as always, hard to know where to begin. The School Board race?… Continue Reading
Facts and fairness June 23, 2015 My Buddy has been waiting to jump all over my DWBP post for a week and kept sending me hints that he was waiting… Continue Reading
DWBP (Driving with a black passenger) June 18, 2015 I take it for granted that black drivers are subjected to being pulled over by cops (black or white) far more than white drivers… Continue Reading
Seven Period Day June 17, 2015 The school board received an email a couple weeks ago which I’ve been meaning to reply to. Its timely and this is a portion… Continue Reading
About this graph June 17, 2015 At last night’s school board meeting (about which much could be said) other than the Trib’s take that we are getting past the bad… Continue Reading
Rainy Morning birdwalk June 17, 2015 Rainy Morning: something I’ve longed for during a week of sunny days. Needed to buckle down and sift through oceans of paper that I’ve… Continue Reading
A Time to Fish June 16, 2015 Art wasn’t kidding. I found his Father’s book at Amazon on offer for $2,500. Art did most of the writing and its been rated… Continue Reading
Edison June 16, 2015 This is today’s big Duluth Education News. Duluth Edison Charter Schools plans to split from the for-profit company that has helped manage the schools… Continue Reading
A “brilliant summation!” June 16, 2015 If you come to Lincoln Democrat to understand our public schools I must direct you to Karl Schuettler’s demographic analysis of Denfeld’s missing students…. Continue Reading
A sailor who can’t bait a hook June 16, 2015 Art Johnston’s got a new fundraising website – sorry don’t have the URL yet. My personal plans are to write a book to help… Continue Reading
I need a rainy day June 16, 2015 Claudia asked me why I was pacing the kitchen this morning. She didn’t realize I’d hopped out of bed at midnight too agitated to… Continue Reading
My Mini Vacation June 15, 2015 I’ve recently began a number posts with a long list of terms or phrases each of which represents something on my mind about which… Continue Reading
81 percent graduation rate – Pt. 1 June 10, 2015 Until I get around to clearing out a backlog of posts please listen to, or read, this story from NPR. Continue Reading
She died, of course June 6, 2015 Last March my Brother and I met to place our Mom by our Dad in Mankato’s Woodland Hills Cemetary. We didn’t have a funeral… Continue Reading
Super Hero Garden June 6, 2015 Old news. A week ago we asked the boys if they wanted to plant a fairy garden again this year. Never heard of them?… Continue Reading
A must read by Erik Simonson June 6, 2015 I like Rep. Erik Simonson. I didn’t particularly want to. The old Republican in me is still irritated that Duluth continues to automatically elect… Continue Reading
Returning to the scene of the crime June 4, 2015 Parts of this are x-ed out to avoid unuseful ill feelings. I’d been sent the news that I would not be handing out diplomas… Continue Reading
Nix that June 4, 2015 Its been a long time since I’ve put anything other than ISD 709 miasma on the blog. This is cool and its probably already… Continue Reading
