20 PRIORITIES and a pleasure August 31, 2016 At the moment I seem to be suffering from priority paralysis. There are so many things I want to be doing I’m having a… Continue Reading
Another of the old emails I missed. August 21, 2016 Some one sent me a link to this story: Star Tribune sues Minneapolis Public Schools for information Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune The Star Tribune… Continue Reading
Books for students today and yesterday August 21, 2016 I am off for a week with the grandsons and not planning on taking the computer or blogging. I do intend to check my… Continue Reading
Pound foolish about our competition August 20, 2016 I heaped skepticism if not quite scorn on the idea that Duluth’s Catholic schools would be up to competing with ISD 709 by expanding…. Continue Reading
I’m so vain August 19, 2016 Yesterday I took the grandsons agate hunting on Park Point at 10AM. The Tall ships had already arrived and were moored around the Harbor…. Continue Reading
News is News August 19, 2016 This is a long but sensible analysis of the questions raised about the successful Somali legislative candidate in Minneapolis. It may be that the… Continue Reading
St. Louis County Schools “Red Plan” August 19, 2016 “district administration refused to provide any clarification, and urged school board members themselves not to respond to the newspaper’s questions.” I probably haven’t mentioned… Continue Reading
My hero to visit Duluth this weekend August 18, 2016 I am so tempted to take my grandsons ages 6 and 9 to this on Saturday. I just don’t know if they could sit… Continue Reading
25 cents-an-hour fallout August 18, 2016 I will comment on this following email that I found in my inbox this morning shortly but I have a breakfast meeting in nine… Continue Reading
Abortion again August 18, 2016 I feel strongly that the issue of Abortion has been dealt with damnably in American politics for most of my life. I have never… Continue Reading
Breaking ISD 709’s bank 25 cents at a time August 17, 2016 It turns out that Senator Everett Dirksen never said “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” Evidently when he… Continue Reading
More competition for 709? August 17, 2016 I was about to link this post to the DNT story of how Duluth’s Catholic Arch Diocese is investigating the start up of a… Continue Reading
Trump “build-a-wall” bait August 16, 2016 My Buddy sent me a post from Powerline (one of my favorite blogs -NOT). It was a doozey suggesting that a Somali woman who… Continue Reading
Tu tu kerfluffle August 16, 2016 I did some lobbying to open up some of our empty schools to help the Minnesota Ballet fix and store their storm damaged costumes…. Continue Reading
You heard it here first August 16, 2016 or maybe “read” is more accurate albeit with far fewer details from me. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4095059-deal-nettleton-school-falls-through Continue Reading
Peter 3: 15 – Stories too terrible to tell August 13, 2016 At my church men’s group this week our speaker was too frail to attend. He had escaped death recently and as a result had… Continue Reading
IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS August 13, 2016 In the co-ink-ee-dink department. After devouring a couple chapters of my biography of Wendell Willkie I picked up the Bible so as to stick… Continue Reading
oh yes…. August 12, 2016 …and the sale of Nettleton School has fallen through. Its a loss of $70,000 and means the continued spending of $35,000 annually (as I… Continue Reading
Me, my summer Blog audience and a glimpse at the plethora of stuff brimming over in my head August 12, 2016 My daily audience has shrunk by half this summer. I think there are two primary explanations for this and I have no idea which… Continue Reading
Trump distractions via Internet August 12, 2016 My Brother, a businessman, sent me this link today. It was on Politico and will no doubt be all over lots of other web… Continue Reading