Swords/Plowshares # 14 – A Civil exchange March 28, 2016 Disclaimer The effect of tonight’s public forum was a tie. I don’t think it will change the minds of Board members. I took copious… Continue Reading
The MSBA Area meeting September 25, 2015 Last night one of the regional meetings for the statewide Minnesota School Board Association met at Cloquet’s Municipal Building. I attended these gatherings every… Continue Reading
Out for blood? – an email exchange on the Thou Shalt Not series September 25, 2015 I woke yesterday morning to find an urgent plea in my email. One of my eight loyal readers was crushed that they missed the… Continue Reading
God help me – I’m candid September 23, 2015 One after another of Duluth’s six school board candidate’s have spoken in praise of transparency. I like the talk. I want to see the… Continue Reading
9-11 – Fourteen years ago today September 11, 2015 I wrote a short post on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In reading it just now I did something I seldom do. I made… Continue Reading
The blogger as Toto September 9, 2015 I’ll get you my pretty – and your little dog too! If the 3,000 people each month who visit this blog (on average three… Continue Reading
That Editorial Part 8 – WWKD What Would Kirby Do? August 31, 2015 When Judy Seliga-Punyko talked about the issue on March 18th she pointed an accusing finger at the Minnesota Department of Education for frog marching… Continue Reading
That Editorial Part 6 – The School Board takes note August 31, 2015 It wasn’t only Brenda Casselius and the Minnesota Dept. of Education that got wind of Duluth’s shortcuts. The story was reported in the Duluth… Continue Reading
That Editorial Part 3 – Why did “The Thumb” return with such a vengeance? August 28, 2015 Why did the Tribune’s editors give the superlative Alanna Oswald such short shrift? Three answers come readily to mind. 1. To teach me a… Continue Reading
Table scraps of the DFL endorse Duluth school board candidates August 25, 2015 Three state and national election years have been highlights for me. In 1978, before the GOP started calling moderates like me RINO’s, I went… Continue Reading
Hope for Nora Sandstad July 24, 2015 After Nora Sandstad’s request to meet me to benefit from my “experience” followed by her hasty departure ten minutes later I twitted the young… Continue Reading
It was worth the wait. July 23, 2015 I enjoyed twitting the Duluth News Tribune about their late coverage of Loren Martell’s entrance into the race. That said I have to say… Continue Reading
I love being able to scoop the Duluth News Tribune July 22, 2015 There is one more candidate for the Duluth School Board…….I’m pretty sure. Loren Martell. Furthermore I’ve asked him if I can be the Chairman… Continue Reading
Letter to the Editorial Page Editor – Pt 5 July 17, 2015 Part 5 In the Dixon years the District has had its fingerprints on several such character assassinations. The first was committed by Ralph Doty… Continue Reading
Rosie’s Hardball July 2, 2015 (This post was first conceived as: MAJ 7 Rosie’s Hardball on April 9, 2015) At our closed school board meetings Rosie Loeffler-Kemp regularly says… Continue Reading
More School Board (and News Tribune) Shaming May 26, 2015 A recent letter to the editor from a friend made me wince a bit. It said that some school board members should stay away… Continue Reading
Stealth is for ninjas May 10, 2015 I’m not a ninja. I’m not an open book but I presume anyone who visits this blog with some regularity does it to find… Continue Reading
Please pass the vitriol May 10, 2015 I have been looking in my blog’s search engine for an old post that will help explain Judy Seliga-Punyko’s Machiavellian scheme to first fillet… Continue Reading
“a small ‘vitriolic’ group” drives Mern out May 10, 2015 More from the old friend who voted to censure me last December. He’s chosen to not run for re-election, he said, because of a… Continue Reading
A letter on my making an ass of myself May 4, 2015 I last used Richard Thomas’s cartoon of me in this blog post of January 3rd. I had a bad December but of all the… Continue Reading