{"id":1533,"date":"2008-11-17T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2017-03-02T23:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:09:37","slug":"super-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Super Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon tried hard to be cheerful about the recent operations levy referendum. Dr. Dixon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=23265&#038;section=News\">told the Budgeteer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited,&#8221; said Dixon. &#8220;To me, it sends a message. We know this community cares deeply about education. All the precincts and townships passed No. 1 by a significant margin. And I was pleased with the results for No. 2 (53.35 percent voted no, while 46.65 voted yes).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, he admitted, with only the first question passing, the district is looking at a likely deficit of $3.3 million in the next school year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just how disappointed the School Board was at the &#8220;likely deficit of $3.3 million&#8221; was better expressed by Board Chair Nancy Nilsen in a public post to the Progressive Action Website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you how disappointed I was in the results as were many many many of us.  I should have e-mailed you or called you this morning to let you know I have many of your signs.  As I was out picking up signs for Roger and the Yes Yes Yes levy, . . .&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon tried hard to be cheerful about the recent operations levy referendum. Dr. Dixon told the Budgeteer: &#8220;I&#8217;m excited,&#8221; said Dixon. &#8220;To me,&#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\/1533"}],"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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20866,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/20866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}