{"id":1554,"date":"2008-12-14T15:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2008-12-14T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:24:40","slug":"weakest-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"Weakest link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What may kill the Red Plan is what will break any chain &#8211; its weakest link.<\/p>\n<p>For a year-and-a-half one of Duluth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/ordean.htm\">foremost experts <\/a>has been pointing out and offering solutions to this weakest link in the Red Plan (aside from its backbreaking and unnecessary cost) its intention to turn the Ordean site into a high school half again bigger than Duluth&#8217;s existing high schools.<\/p>\n<p>The recent revelation that a stadium is planned has begun to pry open this link. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/80484\/\">Joe Kleiman letter to the editor <\/a>represents the average Duluthian very well. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/80477\/\">Brian Ronstrom&#8217;s provocative column today <\/a>points out how much more clearly he understands the foolishness of the Ordean site than the school board. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one criticism that hadn&#8217;t even occurred to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In November 1999, we in Duluth had an opportunity to vote on a school district referendum. The focus was on athletic fields, including at Public Schools Stadium and Ordean Middle School. At Ordean, the focus was on baseball, soccer and multipurpose fields with a football\/soccer stadium. The property tax increase in 1999 dollars on a home valued at $80,000 was $15 per year for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>We in Duluth will pay until 2014 on the same fields the red plan would eliminate. The Ordean stadium is to become a parking lot while the multipurpose and soccer fields are to be replaced with a new stadium.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What may kill the Red Plan is what will break any chain &#8211; its weakest link. For a year-and-a-half one of Duluth&#8217;s foremost experts&#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\/1554"}],"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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}