While Duluth cuts programs to fund the Red Plan January 18, 2010 Other Minnesota School Districts are in a race to offer the most desirable programs possible to keep their students and attract more to their… Continue Reading
Read this and weep December 4, 2009 Weep because there is no editor at the Duluth News Tribune like Marshall Helmberger, the publisher and editor of the Tower-Soudan Timberjay. Mr. Helmberger… Continue Reading
46 students September 15, 2009 I spent the morning reading my favorite paper for two hours to folks who listen on the State’s radio for the blind. Not much… Continue Reading
Please DNT – Don’t report any of this! July 3, 2009 Remember that old saw about liberty requiring constant vigilance? Well we don’t have either in Duluth. No Vote and no Newspaper coverage. Remember that… Continue Reading
Not tonight thank you June 1, 2009 Its been a very busy day for me. Its a quarter past 11PM and this is my first post of the day. I haven’t… Continue Reading
Thank goodness for television reporting May 31, 2009 My wife called me to the television as I was putting folded clothing away during the ten PM news. WDIO’s Katie Nordeen was reporting… Continue Reading
The exodus numbers are grim May 28, 2009 The District finally, reluctantly, released the latest losses to open enrollment from Duluth resident students fleeing to outlying school districts. From the Let Duluth… Continue Reading
Moving out May 26, 2009 I just got a call from one of LDV’s most angry members. He’d been out for a walk when he noticed some Duluth Heights… Continue Reading
WADMs Beyond amazing May 12, 2009 I’ve written about the hemorrhaging of Duluth students out of the Duluth School District before. Those figures are still being compiled and when they… Continue Reading
Faith May 1, 2009 Faith can be as blind as the riposte School Board member Ann Wasson aimed at Kent Worley, Duluth’s renowned landscape architect. (Oh excuse me…. Continue Reading
How much is a child’s life worth? April 14, 2009 We may soon find out. Losing a high school kid to open enrollment costs the Distruct, oops, that was a typo, costs the District… Continue Reading
Ice time March 4, 2009 WDIO’s reporter Katie Nordeen called last night for my take on the District’s plans to gut Ordean as a means of reducing their budget… Continue Reading
Gutting Ordean under the cover of budget cuts March 3, 2009 Today’s story about how our industrious school board must save money implies that gutting Ordean this year is part of their effort to save… Continue Reading
$40,000 February 12, 2009 Sarah, I know you read my blog occasionally just like some of Dr. Dixon’s chief advocates do. I think you did Let Duluth Vote… Continue Reading
More Red plan heat in today’s Trib January 4, 2009 How did I miss this letter in the hard copy of today’s paper? And I thought I was getting testy. Among its more moderate… Continue Reading
Follow the Money January 1, 2009 Here’s hoping that the Trib will follow its own advice of a couple days ago and “Follow the Money.” It was a pointed complaint… Continue Reading
A day brightener October 22, 2007 Vic sent me two posts from Duluth’s Citizen Blog that I rarely have time to monitor. Its punch and counter punch and one of… Continue Reading