“What kind of power does JCI have over these school boards?” May 12, 2011 Good question. Maybe its union power in a time of low employment although both the Red Plan and the St. Louis County School building… Continue Reading
Circling the drain January 26, 2011 I got this email today: Hello Harry 🙂 Today’s “All is Well” blog post has prompted me to write you this e-mail. Attached are… Continue Reading
Hope Loren’s wrong September 13, 2010 Loren Martell has taken over from me as the Red Plan’s Cassandra. This is his letter to the editor today: Published September 13 2010… Continue Reading
Four day foolishness March 16, 2010 I don’t know how I missed this today. A friend just emailed it to me: It was only a few months ago that Dr…. Continue Reading
Batting .500 October 8, 2009 That’s a great stat in baseball but not in journalism. There’s a pretty good story in today’s paper about a homeowner who doesn’t want… Continue Reading
My Reply to Ralph Doty is in July 30, 2009 You can read it on the Budgeteer online or here: Debunking claims should be more important than perusing e-mails Let Duluth Vote’s Harry Welty… Continue Reading
The Economy July 30, 2009 I’ve been forced into an (for me) unnatural tunnel vision for the past year. The Tunnel is the Red Plan and like a soldier… Continue Reading
A friend for whom time stopped July 21, 2009 I called up Bob Nygaard last night. A finer fellow you could not meet. Bob served on the school board for a year after… Continue Reading
Red Plan Offensive #2 – correcting the record July 6, 2009 This is Tim Grover’s chastisement of Gary Glass and Let Duluth Vote found in Sunday’s DNT with my observations inserted. As a member and… Continue Reading
The disaster’s first wave July 1, 2009 Don’t worry. Pretty soon Duluth will have brand new buildings to bring our test scores back up. Please DNT. Don’t write that story about… Continue Reading
No news is bad news June 28, 2009 Its Sunday morning and once again I put a bare five hours into my slumbers before waking a little after 4AM Pacific time. I… Continue Reading
Glass replies to Dixon May 17, 2009 Gary Glass’s reply to Dr. Dixon’s unsupported claims in Friday’s Trib made it to today’s paper. I quote them in full and heartily concur…. Continue Reading
and the Mason jar May 15, 2009 The understaffed Duluth News Tribune which can’t muster the manpower to properly report the Red Plan got a little help from the editorial board…. Continue Reading
Marshall School’s fifth grade December 31, 2008 One of the airy rationales for proceeding with the Red Plan has been turned on its head – the hope to lure students back… Continue Reading
Why we should have done a transportation study June 27, 2008 As pointed out earlier no transportation study was done about the Red Plan. The Red Plan’s former manager admitted that fewer schools will mean… Continue Reading
In defense of Mike Jaros April 12, 2008 Although the Trib’s editors changed the title I suggested which is the same as the title of this post they published my defense of… Continue Reading
Will we abandon the Iraqis who helped us? January 19, 2007 The President and the military are busy reading up on Algeria’s 1950’s revolt against the French. This very thoughtful blog entry at Paco Pond examines… Continue Reading
Here, here, here, here, here and here June 6, 2006 Iraq has a number of English literate bloggers who describe what they are experiencing daily during our War on Terror. Now its the fear… Continue Reading