{"id":1063,"date":"2007-09-20T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2007-09-20T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:24:08","slug":"another-fine-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Another fine letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Frank just passed on the email he sent to the Education Commissioner. Its a fine letter:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I urge you to look into what will be foisted on to the Duluth taxpayers<br \/>\nin the very near future if the proposed agreement\/contract between the<br \/>\nDuluth School Board and Johnson Controls is allowed to stand. <\/p>\n<p>The notion that a body of citizens not be allowed to vote on something<br \/>\nthat will affect them all for a long time to come is distasteful and not<br \/>\nat all consistent with what the founding fathers had in mind when this<br \/>\ncountry was founded.  It will set an ugly precedent for all school<br \/>\ndistricts in the state which I believe will come to haunt state<br \/>\ngovernment.  Duluth is already struggling with the effects of the city<br \/>\ngovernment retiree health care issue.  It&#8217;s magnitude is around $300<br \/>\nmillion dollars.  If this plan referred to above is allowed to stand<br \/>\nwithout voter input, then a long term debt of equal or greater magnitude<br \/>\nwill be added to the citizens of Duluth. <\/p>\n<p>It may be true that Duluth needs a plan of this scope to address its<br \/>\neducational infrastructure, but not at the expense of examination in the<br \/>\nlight of ballot box. <\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Frank just passed on the email he sent to the Education Commissioner. Its a fine letter: &#8220;I urge you to look into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}