{"id":1268,"date":"2008-05-30T23:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T04:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2008-05-30T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T04:18:41","slug":"trib-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Trib talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone reading my blog should know I&#8217;ve been a little put out with the Trib and its coverage of the Red Plan and the Red Plan&#8217;s opposition. After a two hour lunch and some frank talk with the Trib&#8217;s education reporter I&#8217;m feeling considerably more charitable.<\/p>\n<p>I first met Sarah Horner over the phone last Summer when she called to ask me about Let Duluth Vote or why I had filed to run for the School Board. I began joking around, as is my wont with Reporters, but she was all business and I realized that she wanted straight answers from me so I sobered up. Later I happened to be dropping something off in the Trib&#8217;s offices and I made a beeline to her desk and complimented her on her tough questions. I told her that I had only one request of her&#8230;.that she show as much skepticism of the Red Plan proponants as she did its opponants. Since that time I can not complain about my treatment in any of her stories. The Let Duluth vote forces, however, have never seemed to fare as well.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah knew about my threats to the Trib and its circulation because a letter I sent to the publisher found its way onto her desk. Her chief concern was to impress upon me that she has and plans to undertake a serious investigation of some of LDV&#8217;s chief complaints. I believe her although I may have to work hard to find sources for her so that she can get some non JCI and School Board affected testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Of primary concern is our fear, LDV&#8217;s fear, that the JCI contract gives them dangerous license to manipulate the contract for their benefit at the District&#8217;s expense. I think Sarah sees the potential for conflict of interest on JCI&#8217;s part. That&#8217;s not proof but it demostrates the skepticism I asked her to level at both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone reading my blog should know I&#8217;ve been a little put out with the Trib and its coverage of the Red Plan and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}