Ill wind blowing across the Northern Plains

The NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE has issued a HIGH WIND WARNING for tonight and tomorrow morning. Strong west to northwest winds of 30-45 mph with a few higher gusts are expected. Drivers (and School Boards) should be extra careful, especially drivers of high-profile vehicles (and Districts considering bond issues).

To my children and their friends looking for careers,

There is a new growth industry in rural Minnesota I thought you might want to know about.

Figure out a way to convince us rural Minnesota taxpayers that paying taxes for educational facilities is not a tax but an investment. Realize before you embark on this that most taxpayers are already paying for excess levies to keep the old doors of our old buildings open. Realize too that some of us are Open Enrollment losers and that many (over one hundred) of our former captured customers are now customers of other Open Enrollment winner districts with more modern facilities. Realize that we are living in an era of stagnant or declining enrollments.

I have the names of people on two neighboring school boards who have just lost bond issue votes by an identical margin of 37-63 per cent. They would like to hire you. Sound like a job you'd like to tackle?

The school used to be what held the town together. Now it's what divides us. You who walked these hallways. Get back here and help us solve this problem.

What's that I hear you say? Charter schools? Private schools? Church schools? Trade schools? Home Schools? Online learning?

The answer is blowing in the wind???