{"id":1496,"date":"2008-09-30T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:28:58","slug":"watching-the-incredible-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Watching the incredible boondoggle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Tarnowski&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=74801&#038;section=Opinion\">Point of View column<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mince any words today in the Trib. A smart fellow who was principal at both Ordean and Central, two locations which will be utterly transformed by the Red Plan, he has a far better head for this District than anyone currently in charge of the District. <\/p>\n<p>His column goes on to propose a much larger fix for the area&#8217;s governments but the the first paragraph reflects local sentiments perfectly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Watching the incredible boondoggle created when the Duluth School Board adopted the red plan \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in concert with Johnson Controls, and without apparent consideration for the public good \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it occurred to me and others that a system to plan and build a unique infrastructure for the Duluth area needs to be developed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Tarnowski&#8217;s Point of View column doesn&#8217;t mince any words today in the Trib. A smart fellow who was principal at both Ordean and&#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\/1496"}],"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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}