{"id":10421,"date":"2013-11-26T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10421"},"modified":"2013-11-26T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T18:00:34","slug":"alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10421","title":{"rendered":"Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meeting with a few people prior to being sworn in on the School Board in January. I&#8217;ve got some catching up to do since it will have been ten years since I was last on the Duluth School Board. I had an opportunity to do that and more last Saturday at this &#8220;summit&#8221; meeting for young people in northeastern Minnesota. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/284374\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">DNT story<\/a> on the event.<\/p>\n<p>I was invited by the Superintendent&#8217;s executive assistant a month before the November election and held off signing up until I knew I&#8217;d won. I was intrigued to attend because its based on an initiative General Colin Powell got started many years ago. Former Supt. Dixon&#8217;s wife Sarah is one of the Youth Alliances top brass and I thought she might attend. We got to know each other well before the Red Plan controversy on the District&#8217;s Endowment Committee. <\/p>\n<p>Two new School Board members were at the meeting Annie Harala (who once worked for the Alliance) and Rosie Loeffler-Kemp. I talked with them a bit as well as the District&#8217;s number two man supervising the educational side of the District Ed Crawford. And both Dr. Dixon and Sarah showed up a little after I arrived.<\/p>\n<p>We shook hands and greeted each other before taking different corners of the room. However after the conclusion of the Summit Sarah and I spoke at length about the Alliance. Dr. Dixon came over to listen in shortly afterward. We kibbutzed a bit and he informed me he just retired and lost some weight and was off his heart medications. I told him that after I rejoined the board in January I might ask for his prescriptions. He gave me a hearty laugh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meeting with a few people prior to being sworn in on the School Board in January. I&#8217;ve got some catching up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,17,35,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}