Campaigning in the rain, and a side rant on people who refuse to meet with me – for coffee. September 27, 2017 I didn’t go door to door yesterday. I managed to get some writing done and distribute some of the trading card decks that have… Continue Reading
21st Avenue, progress? September 27, 2017 Because of yesterday’s rain the 21st Ave intersection on 4th street should have been opened today. But the City sent out a press release… Continue Reading
Vietnam, back home in Mankato September 26, 2017 Tonight’s episode, yet to air, will carry the story of Vietnam up to 1969. Last night got us to President Elect Richard Nixon. As… Continue Reading
Another rainy day September 26, 2017 Today is another rainy day that I won’t be passing soggy literature door to door. Neither will I be part of Homecroft School’s “human… Continue Reading
How are Donald Trump and the News Tribune Editors similar? September 26, 2017 In the first case: the US has suffered at least four straight climate crises, the fires out west and Hurricanes pounding Huston, Florida and… Continue Reading
Duluth News Trib steals a page from the Duluth Reader and declares that… September 25, 2017 … East High School is the best school in the area! Except that the Reader’s ten-plus years of running a people’s choice awards issue… Continue Reading
Vietnam, 1968 – PBS and me September 25, 2017 I stuffed another thousand envelopes watching Sunday night’s return to Vietnam. It was about 1968 when I was in my last year of Debate… Continue Reading
Lights on 21st Ave September 24, 2017 Claudia thinks the County’s original plans had our intersection being open last week. I speculated last week that it might be open today. Nope…. Continue Reading
Door to door photo – day 44 and counting down September 24, 2017 I walked under a pine tree as I knocked doors in Piedmont Heights and found it festooned with galls so that it looked like… Continue Reading
A target on my back. “Bygones” twenty years ago September 23, 2017 I left too early for church clean up to read the Trib but a friend noted the Bygones from twenty years ago and sent… Continue Reading
Tecla Karpen September 23, 2017 No posts yesterday because I put in two 18-hour days in a row on my campaign. I shouldn’t have woken at 3AM tonight but… Continue Reading
PBS’s Vietnam, Episode 4 September 21, 2017 I will write this later. I’m spending my day passing out lit door to door. I’ll just note the jarring sight of a confederate… Continue Reading
“Eat that mistake” September 21, 2017 I’m meeting a candidate for the school board election in seven minutes for coffee. You will have to find that quote in the Trib’s… Continue Reading
THE STOWE PLAYGROUND IS FINISHED September 20, 2017 NOTE: THIS POST CONTAINS THE CLAIM THAT THE STOWE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND IS NOT YET DONE. THAT IS NOT TRUE. SO MUCH FOR IMPECCABLE SOURCES. Continue Reading
Catching up on Energy September 20, 2017 I was exhausted last Wednesday after the Primary election when we rescheduled our Business meeting. I began hallucinating when we got to a turgid… Continue Reading
Good press on mulch change September 20, 2017 Coincidentally, Claudia pointed out the Conservation Minnesota Piece we got in the mail today: It features a very nice write-up on the Duluth School’s… Continue Reading
Burns, Vietnam 3 September 20, 2017 I had hoped for a short meeting so that I could get to the second airing of the third PBS Vietnam installment. No such… Continue Reading
A delayed request for a change order September 20, 2017 NOTE: THIS POST CONTAINS THE CLAIM THAT THE STOWE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND IS NOT YET DONE. THAT IS NOT TRUE. SO MUCH FOR IMPECCABLE SOURCES…. Continue Reading
Thoughts on Episode 2 of Burn’s Vietnam September 19, 2017 This episode covered my first recollections of Vietnam which go back to my move from Kansas to Minnesota. JFK was killed within two months… Continue Reading
21st Ave E to be open Saturday? Monday? September 19, 2017 They are pouring the concrete. Continue Reading
