Legal committee mtg

I just got back from Randy’s, a restaurant in old West End, where LDV’s legal advisory committee met for lunch. We each reported back on our conversations with attorneys and I was pleased with the early reports. We still have a lot of names to go through and I haven’t even begun to call my list.

Afterward, I stuck around a little while and talked about the District’s increasingly tenuous political situation. I used some pretty rough language albeit under my breath. As I left the back room an elderly co-worker from my year at Washington Junior asked me how we were doing. I guess I can’t go anywhere no without being recognized. She had seen me on the tube last night. I told her I hoped she hadn’t heard me using my colorful language. “Oh, no,” she said.

Her equally elderly friend, the wife of a former Duluth teacher, joined her and we had a rollicking time talking about how foolish the school board has been. These sweet old ladies said a couple colorful things themselves.

The friend said she had laughed to herself when she had read that if Duluth would went to a four day school week it would be the first time in history. She went to school four days a week in Duluth during the war – WWII!

“Are you saying?” I asked her, “that we’re as bad off today with Dixon as we were when we were fighting Hitler?” They both thought that was pretty funny.

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Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

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