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"Mr Coleman," finally? Cool!
Yes, Mr Swanson, let's be fair. Johnson and Hinderaker claimed they posted on their blogs on their own time. Their posts, to the contrary -- especially Johnson's -- were time-stamped all over day parts that would've got a lowly bank teller -- or newspaper writer -- fired for dereliction. The logical conclusion was -- and remains -- that the erstwhile "Big Trunk" (Johnson) was a stalking horse for the real Big Trunk, Bill Cooper.
I wrote the truth of...
Mr Swanson: Your embrace of "honesty" is quite uplifting. Unfortunately, your memory is faulty. I didn't suggest anyone pull their money from TCF. I said "I" would pull my money from TCF -- if I had any money. That came near the end of a December 2004 column criticizing your pals at PowerLine, the right-wing blog that had just been called one of the best blogs of the year by Time Magazine -- an honor I thought was mistakenly bestowed and betrayed little understanding of what PowerLine was up...
To avoid mention of TCF's top honcho Bill Cooper -- who is a former chair of the MN GOP Party and still a player in conservative string-pulling strategies -- in any discussion of charter school problems is difficult to do. But perhaps the better part of valor. Cooper's "Friends of Education" sponsors 17 charter schools in Minnesota, including St Croix Prep. Seventeen!!?? Cooper has become a walking argument for the case for a cap on the number of charter schools. He isn't "experimenting." He...
To paraphrase Frost, MinnPost is too broadminded to take its own side in a quarrel. The earnest people of MinnPost constantly confess themselves to be of a "liberal" bent while giving precious little evidence. This wearing of "the hairshirt" has grown wearisome and proves, sadly, that they have internalized the criticisms that have been flung at them by the right-wing. By now, we could stage a pretty good Show Trial with Joel Kramer and David Brauer, et al, taking their places in the dock to...
Erik: I'm glad your family is having a good experience in a charter school. As I said at the start, there are successes, and there are failures. My older children went to SOUTHWEST HIGH in Minneapolis (my younger three are in the St Paul system) and they received a great education in the IB program. My experience, of course, is just anecdotally of interest, as is yours. Looking at the overall situation, without regard to this school or that one, it still seems obvious that the charter school...
With due respect to Mr Hare: Public schools offer IB and many other challenging programs all over the Twin Cities. My older three children all went through IB in a traditional public high, and none of them "got lost."
If anything is over heated, it is the claims of Charter school advocates.
I have pointed out abuses in the charter school program since 2004, and the recent Strib investigation only amplifies what many people, including some public policy groups and a few legislators like Sen. Saltzman, have been pointing out for months and/or years without receiving adequate attention in the mainstream media:(I quoted Saltzman on charters in my column this past August:...
Public subsidies for anything less than full-on public broadcasting (MPR does NOT qualify for that worthy status, in my book) is a bad idea, and a $400,000 subsidy for MPR shows how the system can be gamed by insiders. Was anyone else even AWARE that such funds were available? My Strib column just last Sunday dealt with the Downie-Schudson plan, and the problems with public subsidies:
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The painting of Jesus as a Barry Gibbs look-a-like closing a business deal in his bathrobe hung in the office of the president of the Riverview Community Bank when the bank opened. The image appeared on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Magazine for Oct. 31, 2004 to illustrate the cover story about religion in the workplace, a story called, "With God at Our Desks."
You can see the cover here:...
The St Paul P.O. was named in honor of the late, great Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy in 2006 (McCarthy died in 2005). What is the plan, if any, to preserve that well-deserved honor while replacing the Post Office?
Anyone?
Sic transit gloria.