Category: General
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How about really stepping up
Businesses can sense schools’ increasing desperation, “We see a tremendous opportunity for corporate America to step up and help during this time of extreme crisis,” says Micky Freeman, CEO of Educational Funding Partners, a Denver start-up that brokers naming and signage deals for Fortune 1000 companies for everything from school auditoriums and gymnasiums to libraries,…
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Glad Tidings of Great Misery
So the Minnesota governor’s race is tied between Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer. The fear is that the recount will take as long as it did for the Coleman/Franken race and that will leave Tim Pawlenty in office along with a Republican majority in both houses through the entire legislative session. That could mean slash…
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Welcome to Mississippi
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran a piece in the Sunday paper this week noting that we have a ratio of 759:1 high-school students to guidance counselors.That ratio places us in 49th place in the nation. A spot usually reserved for the state of Mississippi.And if you think that’s bad, we just had an election that put…
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NYC Marathon
My second cousin’s step-daughter, Shalane Flanagan, is competing in her first marathon on Sunday, and today there were two articles about her in, USA Today, and NBC Universal Sports.Good Luck Shalane!
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Just what I was thinking
Came out of Cub Foods yesterday evening, and spotted a car with these two bumper-stickers on it.I’ve been of the same mind recently, and just before I arrived home, some idiot turned left directly in front of me from the oncoming right lane without signaling.