{"id":21999,"date":"2017-05-25T09:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:31:38","slug":"40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21999","title":{"rendered":"40 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From the DNT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4270880-bygones-may-25-2017\">&#8220;Bygones&#8221; for May 25, 1977<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A grim picture of budget year 1977-78 was presented to the Duluth School Board yesterday. School administrators told the committee of the whole the district will have about $350,000 less to work with next school year than was originally anticipated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And ever shall it be. <\/p>\n<p>1977 was my third year in Duluth and I&#8217;ve been reading the desperate headlines about the School Board&#8217;s finances every other year <em>or more<\/em> from that time to the present. Its no different this year. The challenge is always to <em>make-do<\/em> to the best of the District&#8217;s ability and remember that we have one top priority &#8211; our children.<\/p>\n<p>I have argued since the advent of the Red Plan that the tilting of our the finances so radically to buildings has made the <strong>people<\/strong> end our our schools more perilous. I stick by that statement and no amount of happy talk will improve the situation. However, hard work, creativity and a big dollop of honesty to reinforce public trust can improve things given time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weltyforschoolboard.com\/\">WeltyforSchoolBoard.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the DNT &#8220;Bygones&#8221; for May 25, 1977 A grim picture of budget year 1977-78 was presented to the Duluth School Board yesterday. School&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999"}],"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=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22003,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions\/22003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}