{"id":2066,"date":"2009-05-04T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2009-05-04T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:05:11","slug":"some-splainin-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"Some splainin to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its always fun to wake up to your own voice on Minnesota Public Radio. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Kelleher did a <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/05\/01\/duluth_schoolplans\/\">nice little story <\/a>about the $70,000 that the Duluth School District finds itself obligated to pay to write up a proposal for a Plan B that no one thinks will ever go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Grover got most of the air time explaining how such a bizarre situation could occur. <\/p>\n<p>My wife gave me some grief for my comment that the District would have a lot of &#8220;splainin to do&#8221; when it went to court. I was being cute and quoting that line from Dezi Arnez from the old <strong><em>I love Lucy <\/em><\/strong>show. She thought it wasn&#8217;t politically correct meaning I suppose that I might have offended Minnestoa&#8217;s Cuban population. <\/p>\n<p>MPR&#8217;s written text of the story cleans that all up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welty and a handful of others are suing the district and the project&#8217;s lead contractor. Welty said the district awarded the hefty contract illegally. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not bid out,&#8221; Welty explained. &#8220;This was pre-arranged. We think this is clearly illegal, and we think the school district is going to have a lot of explaining to do to the judge.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MPR is a high class operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its always fun to wake up to your own voice on Minnesota Public Radio. Bob Kelleher did a nice little story about the $70,000&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}