The title is French, my new preoccupation, meaning: I am very, very sorry.<\/p>\n
Loren called me to let me know he was very hurt by the beginning of my last post about his column describing our final Business Committee meeting.<\/p>\n
He didn’t give me time to apologize and all I could think was that I once again neglected some critical proof reading in my Christmas-time haste. It was true.<\/p>\n
I checked and edited the offending implication that I was tired of Loren lecturing me. I was in fact tired of being lectured too by some of my fellow school board members. I know, I know. Its a two way street. I offered a lecture\/warning to the new board about the likely inevitability of our District falling into Statutory Operating Debt. This is the video<\/a> and my lecture comes a little after 2 hours and 40 minutes. I tell the newly elected school board members to begin researching SOD. Annie Harala called my description of this evenings budget cuts “flippant.” <\/p>\n If Loren is in any doubt about my true feelings about his coverage of the Duluth School Board in the Reader they are these:<\/p>\n 1. I regret only that Loren never got a chance to be elected to the School Board and display his rich knowledge of our District’s financial situation. The title is French, my new preoccupation, meaning: I am very, very sorry. Loren called me to let me know he was very hurt…<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036"}],"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=24036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24040,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036\/revisions\/24040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. I’m grateful for his tenacity, dedication and toil in explaining the long and tedious school board meetings he has attended without fail for a great many years.
\n3. I will regard him as a friend and ally forever.
\n4. I pray for his forgiveness of my occasional carelessness……Annie Harala characterized it as flippancy at our last meeting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"