{"id":2610,"date":"2009-10-08T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2009-10-08T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:55:52","slug":"batting-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Batting .500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a great stat in baseball but not in journalism. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pretty good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/148524\/\">story<\/a> in today&#8217;s paper about a homeowner who doesn&#8217;t want to sell his home to the School District. I say pretty good despite the big question it glosses over &#8211; Will the School Board renege on its promise not to use eminent domain? Kerry Leider, the <strong>Clerk of the Works <\/strong>on all the School District&#8217;s building projects suggests that it won&#8217;t be employed by explaining that there&#8217;s another less desirable route into the rock pile where the school will be constructed. Let&#8217;s hope the District gets <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=f+i+salter\">FI Salter <\/a>on the case in one big hurry so that this selfish cripple can&#8217;t deny our children the third-of-a-mile walk up the new boulevard to educational nirvana! Damn NIMBYs!<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the Trib had to get the news from WDIO TV rather than its news partner Fox 21 News.<\/p>\n<p>But the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/148526\/\">story about the candidate&#8217;s debate <\/a>is, to be frank, a POS especially considering the big build up given the debate by the Trib which extolled the virtues of its being put on the Internet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/148235\/group\/Opinion\/\">&#8220;Candidate forum not to be missed&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So did the candidates talk about the exodus of kids leaving the District? transportation concerns? Funding? Programs? The construction schedule? If they did it evidently didn&#8217;t tip the scales as report worthy news. The only topic the candidates seem to have discussed was what we should call the new schools. One candidate called the question &#8220;trite.&#8221; Spoil sport.  <\/p>\n<p>Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one to have missed this <em>vital <\/em>forum or, maybe the Trib&#8217;s reporter just dozed through it. Anybody who doesn&#8217;t realize the Trib&#8217;s coverage of the Red Plan now follows the single news angle, &#8220;<em>done deal<\/em>,&#8221; either hasn&#8217;t been paying attention or dropped their subscription long ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a great stat in baseball but not in journalism. There&#8217;s a pretty good story in today&#8217;s paper about a homeowner who doesn&#8217;t want&#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-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}