{"id":13520,"date":"2015-05-14T16:53:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13520"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:02:19","slug":"keep-your-eye-out-for-tomorrows-dnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13520","title":{"rendered":"Keep your eye out for tomorrow&#8217;s DNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote and distributed a letter and two possible resolutions for next week&#8217;s meeting to the five majority school board members last night and this morning. Next week&#8217;s meeting is set up to exact retribution against Art Johnston for escaping the majority&#8217;s attempt to remove him without just cause. One of the board members took the package to the Duluth News Tribune today.<\/p>\n<p>This took me by surprise when I showed up to give the Editor a peek at the self same resolutions. Let&#8217;s say my resolution is just as incendiary as anything the Board threw at Art Johnston over the past eleven months. However, I have far more confidence in the validity of the allegations in my resolutions than in those aimed at Art Johnston. <\/p>\n<p>I talked for an hour and a half with the editor and the Trib&#8217;s education reporter. I left the meeting uncertain as to what I would do next week. I told them that the discussion we had left me torn between two powerful impulses. On the one hand I see great value in putting the Board&#8217;s focus back on the needs of our school children. Now that Art has been saved from this travesty of justice perhaps I too should refocus. On the other hand fairness demands that I expose the tactics of Art&#8217;s accusers and stick up for the First Amendment rights our Board has tried to obscure with grossly exaggerated claims of misconduct. I&#8217;ll be doing a lot of thinking over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I told the Trib they have the goods and left it up to them to report the story as they saw fit. What they report may alter my course either way. I may want to give my eight loyal blog readers my response to whatever the Trib publishes. (Actually it was 637 readers on Tuesday when I could get no sleep and decided to write a couple resolutions to even the playing field instead of tossing an turning all night.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote and distributed a letter and two possible resolutions for next week&#8217;s meeting to the five majority school board members last night and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520"}],"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=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}