Minnesota Teachers Gathered to Review a Twelve Thousand Dollar School Board Decision

sign the delivery receipt for the uncertified medical supplies.

The county registry clerk, a young woman with a plastic holiday pin on her collar, did not look up from her monitor when I tapped my knuckles on the counter.

“Twenty dollars for the certified search fee,” she said, her voice flat.

I pulled a twenty-dollar bill from my purse and pressed it continue reading …