Vile March 21, 2009 Paul Goossens and I go way back to 1999 when we were both allies in the effort to keep the Edison school experiment alive… Continue Reading
Budgeteer leads the Trib again November 17, 2008 Jana Peterson is once again ahead of her rival Forum Communication’s newspaper, The Duluth News Tribune, by interviewing Gary Glass about Let Duluth Vote’s… Continue Reading
Rewarding the Superintendent August 11, 2008 Tonight the School Board meets to reward the Superintendent for meetings his goals. I think he’s supposed to get another $5,000. He’ll probably need… Continue Reading
Vic tweaks me June 23, 2008 My old email devils advocate has sent me this intriguing blog piece by Gred Manikow a Harvard economist. I’d take some time to comment… Continue Reading
The Definition of Dotycide November 2, 2007 And the definition is: a Duluth version of character assassination. This is rather like Ralph Doty’s tribute to Mayor Bergson which was presented days… Continue Reading
Duluth Activists email September 20, 2007 Got this email in our growing email list. I’ve put the the critical strategic sentence in bold typeface: D & A I don’t think… Continue Reading
More fencing with Vic December 7, 2006 Vic keeps needling me by sending me links to articles he thinks will get under my skin. He sent one today with nothing more… Continue Reading
The Pro Life Driven Life November 28, 2006 So, Barak Obama is a notorious child killer. Maybe the Pro life movement can get traction with this and revive in time for 2008…. Continue Reading
Pumpkin carving and the debates October 30, 2006 Last night Claudia and I carved pumpkins for All Hallows Eve while we listened to Minnesota’s gubenatorial and senatorial debates. I thought the Independence… Continue Reading
Poison Pills August 1, 2006 Why are corporate execs paid so much more compared to “joe six packs” than they were a couple decades ago? This writer suggests it… Continue Reading
Two Gay Stories May 18, 2006 Dear Abby and her readers responded to a despondent gay man in conservative Georgia. Andrew Sullivan, the iconoclastic, gay, conservative, columnist and blogger had a… Continue Reading
Another GOP angel falls from grace April 5, 2006 It is a familiar notion that when the devil makes his appearance he shows up as a handsome, smooth talking, charmer. The liberal magazine “The Nation”… Continue Reading
Climate change debated April 4, 2006  My SUV reply didn’t sit well with my Global Cooling coorespondent: Harry: Apparently you referred to me as a skeptic of global warming. Change… Continue Reading