Before I leave for Florida…. April 26, 2017 …where I’ll be wishing my father-in-law a Happy 90th Birthday, I’ll point my eight loyal readers to two stories about what’s happening in the… Continue Reading
Denfeld equity April 26, 2017 A friend of mine who commented on today’s DNT story was worried that having an academy setting at Duluth Denfeld would be elitist. Frankly,… Continue Reading
and like college campuses perhaps newspapers should be free from offensive politics April 26, 2017 The Duluth News Tribune devoted almost an entire page to a dozen letters critical of a Steve Lindstrom cartoon that I thought was clever… Continue Reading
Shielding college students from bad politics April 26, 2017 Political provocateur, Ann Coulter, was dis-invited to speak at a college campus recently. Ironically this was at the Berkely campus which in my teen… Continue Reading
Now I just need to set up a website for my School Board campaign… April 25, 2017 …and put this shaky video on it. Continue Reading
Not a thank you April 25, 2017 Contract talks will start soon and one of the last Duluth School Board members to be an active negotiator sent this email to the… Continue Reading
Thank you’s April 25, 2017 Years ago I attended some session during which a presenter made a good suggestion. She warned her listeners that it was easy to get… Continue Reading
My Earth Day review April 23, 2017 My contribution for tire mulch replacement worked out nicely: and this picture that I posted got this succinct question from “My Buddy.” “our data?”… Continue Reading
Darwin, Einstein, Archimedes… April 22, 2017 …Save the Earth and eat your wheaties! That was my chant at today’s Duluth Earth Day/Science day march. I only shouted it once but… Continue Reading
The ISD 709 demographics meeting April 21, 2017 I just listened to the meeting yesterday about Demographics. I have some catching up to do because I missed the first half hour. These… Continue Reading
Closing schools? Rehabbing schools? Shifting boundaries? April 21, 2017 I missed the first portion of yesterday’s Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting with the demographers we hired to map out the future needs… Continue Reading
an email re: the last school board meeting April 20, 2017 To All School Board Members, At the regular school board meeting of April 18th there was a very large audience of Denfeld parents, students,… Continue Reading
Ripped (off) from the headlines April 20, 2017 I twitted Wrenshall a couple posts ago so this post might be viewed as excessive harassment which I don’t mean to inflict. However, that… Continue Reading
My contribution for mulch replacement April 19, 2017 You can put in a silent auction bid Saturday at the Skyline Bowling lanes from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. Continue Reading
We don’t want to build new schools for those Duluth kids! April 19, 2017 But we will bus them in so they can attend our old schools. Such was the overwhelming decision of Wrenshall’s voters in yesterday’s building… Continue Reading
Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you April 19, 2017 As I was about to head early to yesterday’s school board meeting I thumbed through my notes I discovered to my great annoyance that… Continue Reading
Daphnia in tire soup experiment April 18, 2017 Today’s lead story in the Trib highlighted the scientific investigations of two Duluth Middle School students. These young people were way ahead of the… Continue Reading
Books that count April 17, 2017 I just polished off my seventh book of the year and entered it on my reading list online. I set Destiny of the Republic… Continue Reading
Indian ghosts April 17, 2017 I just keep adding more books to my reading list. The lastest is Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve been catching reports on Public… Continue Reading
Demography fail April 17, 2017 I was sent this article by a Twin Cities school watcher. The story explains how demographer Hazel Reinhardt, who was wildly optimistic about the… Continue Reading
