{"id":7968,"date":"2012-11-28T23:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2017-02-27T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:07:42","slug":"a-pertinent-aside-while-i-work-up-the-motivation-to-continue-the-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"A pertinent aside while I work up the motivation to continue the meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/251078\/group\/Opinion\/\">From yesterday&#8217;s DNT<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know this fellow but he could be channeling me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I saw the column by Duluth School Board members Ann Wasson and Bill Westholm on Nov. 23, I hoped they were offering an apology for raising property taxes almost 12 percent after assumptions on Red Plan funding went awry. Instead, in the column titled, &#8220;Running fewer schools results in savings that are applied to repaying bonds,&#8221; they offered a tremendous amount of spin on general-fund deficits and Red Plan bond repayment.<\/p>\n<p>The way I see it, the school district gambled on real estate speculation with taxpayer money and lost when it couldn&#8217;t sell buildings made excess by the Red Plan to make bond payments. As a result, bond payments have to be taken from the general fund, which now has to be replenished by higher property taxes. Obviously, the taxpayers can&#8217;t make the students suffer because of poor planning by the school district. However, I think the district does owe taxpayers an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Savageau<\/p>\n<p>Duluth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to Chicago without my computer tomorrow. If I don&#8217;t wake up and resume my meditation in the middle of the night it will be several days before I&#8217;m likely to continue it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s DNT. I don&#8217;t know this fellow but he could be channeling me: When I saw the column by Duluth School Board members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968"}],"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=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}