{"id":1952,"date":"2009-04-15T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:11:21","slug":"the-lied-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Lying to the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/117743\/\">This story <\/a>in the Trib demonstrates yet again the lengths to which Dixon will go to keep the public misinformed. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Duluth school district has completed a voluntary environmental assessment that it says should alleviate concerns about its plans to convert Ordean Middle School into a high school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I posted a while back that <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1893\">Kerry Leider had lied <\/a>to Board member Glass about whether the District would perform an EAW. Well, apparently it has completed one. A key to staying employed on Dr. Dixon&#8217;s staff is the willingness to tell a lie.<\/p>\n<p>This is not first lie Kerry has told. He now denies <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1255\">that he ever said JCI could earn lots of money on the Red Plan.<\/a> From my May 20, 2008 post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As early as last summer Duluth&#8217;s most eminent Landscape Architect, Kent Worley, surmised that the language in this contract, which lists many payments to JCI in excess of 2%, could earn the company as much as 10% of total costs. According to one of our newest School Board members, Gary Glass, this figure was supported by our Director of Facilities, Kerry Leider. However, ever since a headline trumpeted $33 million in earnings for JCI Dr. Dixon has repeatedly maintained in print and in person that the contract specifies a 2% earnings for JCI despite the contract&#8217;s language to the contrary. The Duluth News Tribune which is reaping considerable advertising dollars from the District has not seen fit to pursue this story. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it any wonder I consider <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1949\">Dr. Dixon unscrupulous<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story in the Trib demonstrates yet again the lengths to which Dixon will go to keep the public misinformed. The Duluth school district&#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\/1952"}],"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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20771,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/20771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}