{"id":1597,"date":"2009-01-02T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:50:45","slug":"the-speck-in-my-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"The speck in my eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mimi Larson the Red Plan’s chief civilian cheerleader wrote about me in today’s letter to the editor section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here it is in full:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t assume everything school critic says is true<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was interesting how a Dec. 15 letter (\u201cShallow reporting misses the real stories\u201d) from Duluth Public Schools critic Harry Welty was followed the next day with a correction in the News Tribune regarding an inaccurate statement in the letter that Pasek\u2019s pharmacy had closed. Interesting because there were several other falsehoods in the letter related to the schools\u2019 long-range facilities plan that the News Tribune was not able to correct. <\/p>\n

To be fair, it would be time consuming for the newspaper to fact-check every statement Welty makes. But regular readers know why constant fact-checking of his material is needed. Back on Sept. 27, 2007, a News Tribune headline read, \u201cGroup hopes alternative plan will ‘confuse\u2019 issue.\u201d The subsequent story quoted Welty stating he was taking actions on the facilities plan so he could cause \u201ca lot of confusion.\u201d In the 15 months since he made that statement, he has been true to his word, confusing issues instead of making things clearer for local residents.<\/p>\n

Welty isn\u2019t trying to improve the education children receive from Duluth Public Schools. If he was, he would have worked with the district to prepare his \u201cPlan B\u201d by now, the plan that will require even more operating dollars to keep even more schools open – even when we don\u2019t need the space. He would have submitted it to the Department of Education for review by now. <\/p>\n

My advice to the News Tribune and its readers is to just assume Welty is always trying to confuse the issue. There just isn\u2019t enough space in the News Tribune to print every correction needed when Welty sends a letter to the editor.<\/p>\n

Mimi Larson”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mimi Larson the Red Plan’s chief civilian cheerleader wrote about me in today’s letter to the editor section. Here it is in full: Don\u2019t…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20848,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/20848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}