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After lots of speculation and rumor, yes it is true actor William Windom, 88, has died. It finally made the New York Times this afternoon.

Here is the L.A. Times obituary:

Windom died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Woodacre, north of San Francisco. He was 88.

Born in New York City on Sept. 28, 1923, Windom was named after his great-grandfather, a Minnesota congressman and former U.S. Treasury secretary. He attended Williams College in Massachusetts before joining the Army as a paratrooper in World War II. He later attended the University of Kentucky, among several other higher-education institutions, and decided to pursue acting.

After a billion edits, I wasn't going to put it here unless it was indeed true. Lots of times you get rumors, and they turn out not to be true.

Windom was all over television in the 1960s. He co-starred with Inger Stevens in The Farmers Daughter and was in the critically-acclaimed but short-lived My World and Welcome to It. It aired during the 1969-1970 season.

I'd like to see both shows on DVD someday. I probably will have to wait.

Here is part one of an episode My World and Welcome to It featuring Lee Meriwether:




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WCSD escapee Heath Morrison left Reno for Charlotte "coincidentally" when the latest report on graduation rates due to be released soon will show they are flat.

No wonder the district hired a CPA to replace him. They needed somebody who could manipulate figures.
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Charter schools are a disaster in Arizona, which is in a race to the bottom on education for its students.
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Teachers unions in theory are good and necessary, but I submit they all too often don't care about individual teachers and are too busy cutting deals with administrators.