{"id":110,"date":"2005-04-10T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/09\/my-letter-appeared-in-the-sun-trib-today\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T20:47:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T01:47:40","slug":"my-letter-appeared-in-the-sun-trib-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/10\/my-letter-appeared-in-the-sun-trib-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"My letter appeared in the Sun-Trib yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/02\/school-levy-letter-to-the-editor\/\">My letter on the school levy<\/a> situation appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morrissuntribune.com\/\">Morris Sun-Tribune<\/a> yesterday.  It was in good company, sitting next to a nice letter from a group that had been involved in a Blandin foundation grant noting that a strong educational system was important for almost all aspects of our community&#8217;s help and long-term well-being.<\/p>\n<p>There was also an editorial related to these issues, but which focussed primarily on comments made at the <a href=\"http:\/\/morrisqualityschools.org\/?p=31\">last School Board meeting<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/morrisqualityschools.org\/?p=27\">here<\/a>), pointing out that the paper had done quite a bit to publicize the issues.  He also mentioned the value of the information available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/morrisqualityschools.org\/\">MARQS web site<\/a>.  Since our wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\">WeatherGirl<\/a> is the web-mistress for the site, she was rightfully pleased.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My letter on the school levy situation appeared in the Morris Sun-Tribune yesterday. It was in good company, sitting next to a nice letter from a group that had been involved in a Blandin foundation grant noting that a strong educational system was important for almost all aspects of our community&#8217;s help and long-term well-being. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/10\/my-letter-appeared-in-the-sun-trib-yesterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My letter appeared in the Sun-Trib yesterday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/08\/01\/schools-are-more-important-than-pools\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"Schools are more important than pools","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"1 Aug 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Below is a letter to the editor of the Morris Sun-Tribune that appeared in the 27 July 2005 edition (requires registration :-( ) under the title (of their choosing) of \"Pool or no pool, support levy\". This was written by Sub-Evil Boy and I while we were in Wisconsin, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":102,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/02\/school-levy-letter-to-the-editor\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":1},"title":"Morris needs to re-pass the school levy:  A letter to the editor","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"2 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"The following is a letter to the editor that I intend to send to our local paper regarding the current school funding issues (also here). Comments and questions always welcome. (I should mention that as an anti-spamming measure, all comments have to be approved before they appear on the page,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":768,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":2},"title":"We can all make history come alive","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesty of Status-Q, I've just run across this amazing and wonderful little project: WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier. Bill Lamin is posting the letters his grandfather (Harry Lamin) wrote home from the front of WWI as a blog. Each letter is posted 90 years after (to the day) Harry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":141,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/30\/a-draft-of-a-strib-letter-on-the-id-silliness\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":3},"title":"A draft of a Strib letter on the neo-creationism silliness","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just spent way too long flailing away in the horribly cramped confines of 150 words trying to write a letter to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on the whole ID-in-schools silliness. I wrote about a zillion drafts, and WeatherGirl expertly poked holes in one after another, sending me back to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":145,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/08\/my-letter-didnt-appear-in-the-strib-but-some-better-ones-did\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":4},"title":"My letter didn&#8217;t appear in the Strib, but (some) better ones did","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 May 05","format":false,"excerpt":"The Minneapolis Star-Tribune printed 11 letters today sent in response to their \"invitation to readers on ID\/evolution\". Mine was not among them, but most of those that they did print were definitely better than mine anyway so I'm totally cool with it. The bulk of the letters (8 of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My writing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My writing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/writing\/my-writing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":225,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/08\/30\/i-dont-know-_when_-i-last-laughed-that-hard\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":5},"title":"I don&#8217;t know _when_ I last laughed that hard!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Aug 05","format":false,"excerpt":"My sister just hooked me with with the First United Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster whose devoted members believe the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. 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