…muddling over the Duluth school board campaign sleepless past midnight. Checked my email and found this:
Hey Harry.
In the run-up to the primary, the News Tribune Editorial Board is scheduling candidate interviews of no more than 30 minutes. This email is an invitation to meet with us.
We’re also emailing you today to invite you to write a column of no more than 500 words for publication in August in the News Tribune on the Opinion page.
Please call me at your earliest convenience to schedule an interview with the editorial board. We’ll be scheduling interviews the afternoons of Aug. 1-2, Aug. 14-17, and Aug. 22-24. Please reserve your spot as soon as you can. And please bring along to that interview whatever literature about yourself and your qualifications you are distributing as you campaign.
The deadline for your candidate column — why you’re running for School Board At Large and why voters should vote for you, etc. — is Wednesday, Aug. 9. That gives you a little over two weeks. If you can email it to me at cfrederick@duluthnews.com sooner than that, please do.
We look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Thanks on behalf of the Editorial Board,
Chuck
Chuck Frederick
Editorial Page Editor
Duluth News Tribune
424 W. First St.
Duluth MN 55802
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My reply to Chuck (if pushing send worked):
Chuck,
I look forward to it. Checking my calendar I see the 1st two dates won’t work. I am in China until Aug 2nd and will be in Colorado for a family reunion from the 15th to 17th. I am hell bent to see the eclipse on the 21st so it will have to be the 23rd or 24th.
My head is in Tuchman’s book about Vinegar Joe Stilwell so you will have to await my return for your 500 words.
Real feel today on the Yangtze was 114.
All the best
Harry
PS China won’t let me read the DNT. I will have some catching up to do when I get back.
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PLEASE NOTE
This email is one of 4 that failed to send from China. Someone got the message to Ken at KBJR. Thank you whoever you were. Could someone alert Chuck Frederick for me too?
If America has any edge over China it’s an open Internet. Pray we keep it. You should see these instant Chinese Cities. They take my breath away.
