Second District School Board Candidates speak out August 15, 2015 In the Tribune this last week: Jane Hoffman Dr. David Kirby Charles Obije I’ve been hearing about the recent pilgrimages of most of the… Continue Reading
Tony Stauber August 15, 2015 I was surprised and saddened today to learn that one of my School Board predecessors, Tony Stauber, died. Tony was part of a big… Continue Reading
Transparency Lessons August 15, 2015 A year ago Ann Redelfs who lives a few blocks away tried to enlist my help to save the trees along fourth Street from… Continue Reading
A Retired Superintendent’s View: Charter schools: A need addressed August 15, 2015 When I saw that my friend Ray Pearson had written a column for the Trib weighing in on Charter Schools I was a little… Continue Reading
Tire Chips August 13, 2015 I’ve been busy today trying to figure out a new email system and getting Windows 10 on my computer. I hate being an old… Continue Reading
Acronyms in the News: PSEO and MCA, August 12, 2015 Today’s Trib has two stories about public schools. The second story notes that many if not most Minnesota schools are failing to advertise the… Continue Reading
Medaling with the Superintendent August 12, 2015 Perhaps its because I was a competitive swimmer but I’ve never gotten this picture out of my head of Mark Spitz who won seven… Continue Reading
Candidate updates August 11, 2015 The three candidates for the lone Duluth School Board at-large vacancy have now had op-ed pieces published in the Duluth News Tribune. Renee Van… Continue Reading
Give Peace a Chance August 11, 2015 I am a cat. If there is a closed door I keep hanging around it waiting for someone to open it. There are so… Continue Reading
Diplomacy August 10, 2015 Yesterday, Sunday, I attended the memorial celebration for Al France. Al was one of the movers and shakers in Duluth and in his late… Continue Reading
“Erroneous Impressions” August 6, 2015 I fenced with Chuck Frederick about a letter-to-the-editor supporting Art Johnston which did not pass muster. Chuck had his nose out of joint with… Continue Reading
The learning pyramid August 5, 2015 One of our staff emails was about a summer course in the learning pyramid. I’ve not made a study of this myself by my… Continue Reading
The Commodore is right again August 5, 2015 As Claudia and I sat at Valentini’s having breakfast this morning we saw one of the sailboats from the Trans Superior Race gliding into… Continue Reading
And the Greenhouse again August 5, 2015 Claudia got to the Trib before I did and was alarmed that I would describe the Community Action Greenhouse as “dangerous.” I told her… Continue Reading
Wetlands August 5, 2015 I almost didn’t read totay’s Opinion collumn “Keeping Duluth’s wetlands intact should be a priority.” I’m glad I did. It turned out to be… Continue Reading
A DNT bygone reminds me of some pragmatic politics. August 5, 2015 This is one of the items in today’s Trib from the Bygone’s section twenty years ago today: * The Duluth school administration will have… Continue Reading
Dick Gastler – Another Denfeld superlative August 3, 2015 I’ve been over to talk to my neighbor Dick a couple times recently. A big celebration of his life has been canceled due to… Continue Reading
A SB candidate emails me July 31, 2015 Very clever Alanna, Alanna Oswald was a student of mine at Morgan Park thirty years ago. However, she was a Roger’s back then. She… Continue Reading
More on the Greenhouse July 31, 2015 Yesterday was a busy news day so nothing showed up on air dealing with the Greenhouse and/or my email to City Councilors. That didn’t… Continue Reading
The first of fifty interviews July 30, 2015 Our new Ed Crawford (Assistant Superintendent of Education) Amy Starzecki grilled me for half an hour on Tuesday to find out what stakeholders in… Continue Reading
