Before I got a chance to read today’s Trib I had to rush off and give another pint of blood. They gave me my six gallon donor pin when I finished. I’m feeling light as a feather.
When I did sit down to my paper I couldn’t find my daily cartoons at first. Someone had purloined them. “Oh well,” I thought, “at least the news on the Red Plan provided some humor.”
After sequestering the Trib’s education reporter with architects for two hours yesterday to insure a good story in today’s Trib about the preliminary plans for the two new High Schools the administration showed the plans to the School Board. This is the same School Board that Mary Cameron said wasn’t a “rubber stamp” board at last Tuesday’s school board meeting.
In the old days when the Board was a Board the administration would never have dared to give information out to the Press first. If it inks like a rubber stamp. If it stamps like a rubber stamp…..its a rubber stamp.
But the critics just won’t go away. A letter to the editor today pretty well punctures the financial rationale for all these marvelous building plans: Carol music says in part:
“To sell Central for $10 million and spend $48 million or more to replace it is beyond ridiculous. What a waste! All of this is at the expense of the citizens of Duluth. Why sell prime real estate for $10 million and spend $48 million unnecessarily? It doesn’t make sense.”
If we are stuck with the darned thing at least today’s changes at Ordean go a long way to correcting the worst aspects of the plan and follow many of Architect Kent Worley’s recommendations to make the Ordean site bearable.
