Thank you Dr. Conniff… November 21, 2016 …for reading my blog. Thank you also for taking part in an important public conversation…….. I have submitted this piece in its entirety to… Continue Reading
The Public be Darned November 17, 2016 Loren Martell just left me a phone message request. He asked if I would tell my readers that it was the Duluth Reader not… Continue Reading
Letting our guests cool their heels… November 15, 2016 …and putting noses out of joint unnecessarily. In catching up with last week’s Business Committee meeting on youtube I saw how our board majority… Continue Reading
“THROWING GREASE ON THE FIRE” November 15, 2016 As I indicated in my email to my Buddy the election last week has opened Pandora’s box with lots of noisome, nasty, dance on… Continue Reading
Relishing my post-election ease November 14, 2016 Not only do I have a weeks worth of chores from my recent trip but I face days of work printing out a thousand… Continue Reading
Is the School board being a little chippy? November 7, 2016 …as in a chip on their shoulder. I sent this request to my fellow board members yesterday via email: Supt, and fellow board members,… Continue Reading
a tour November 2, 2016 Many River’s Montessori got a nice write-up in the Tribune today. By coincidence Alanna Oswald and I took up Mark Niedermeier’s invitation to take… Continue Reading
Felicitious speechifying October 29, 2016 Occasionally in a blog post I will comment about a “fifty cent” word I’ve used. I used the word “infelicitious” at our last school… Continue Reading
Many Rivers Montessori is invited to speak… October 27, 2016 …at the Duluth School Board’s next Business Committee Meeting. Here is an email from Alanna Oswald to Many Rivers alerting them to the invitation:… Continue Reading
Two good bits of news for ISD 709 October 27, 2016 Firstly, there was a nice front page story about the expansion of Pre K funding in our schools. This has been one of the… Continue Reading
Not so piddling October 19, 2016 How could I forget this? On top of the Jack Moon Scholarship switcheroo that has made me peavish I just heard that the counselors… Continue Reading
PIDDLINGS 10-19-2016 October 19, 2016 Sometimes I get traditional good night sleeps despite the horror of this dyspeptic election year. Not so yesterday. I crawled back into bed about… Continue Reading
Loren Martell explains all…..thank goodness! October 13, 2016 I told you Loren was having a hard time giving up his watch of the Duluth School Board. He’s back this week with a… Continue Reading
Where my Grandfather shed his blood in the fight to save Democracy October 12, 2016 I set this painting easle up to display the 1938 US Battle Monuments Commission map of the sector where my Grandfather earned his Congressional… Continue Reading
“All animals are equal” October 11, 2016 Today’s DNT story about our discussion of extending the Superintendent’s contract during the Human Resource Committee is not inaccurate. On the other hand it… Continue Reading
ISD 709’s youtube presence October 10, 2016 Since Art, Alanna and I succeeded in getting the School Board to record and livestream the committee meeting of the School Board they are… Continue Reading
Its tough to be a minorty kid in ISD 709 October 9, 2016 Today’s unexpected DNT story about the disparity in our treatment of white and black kids was very important. The graph showed that we have… Continue Reading
Biding time October 8, 2016 For four months six members of the School Board were kept in the dark about a second offer to buy one our our empty… Continue Reading
The School Board’s Caste system and strategic ignorance October 7, 2016 I recently passed on to my readers the unfortunate news that Loren Martell, intrepid chronicler of the Duluth School Board, was hanging up his… Continue Reading
I know nothing… October 7, 2016 …or at least that seems to be what some of my colleagues on the School Board would prefer. Three of us on the Board… Continue Reading