{"id":636,"date":"2008-01-14T23:11:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-01-14T23:11:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T04:11:26","slug":"brief-report-from-the-charter-revision-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Brief report from the Charter Revision Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the evening at a Charter Revision Commission meeting, tinkering with the fundamental law of Groton. The process starts to get interesting from here on in; the basic work is done, and now we turn to the issue of the referendum. Groton is well, if unimaginatively governed. We have relatively low taxes. We have a reasonably good, if not great, school system. The solution to this non-problem has been obvious to the tax nuts for years: budget referendum. The prime objective is to destroy the schools from which their kids have already graduated, and which they no longer need. Oops. I guess I&#8217;ve given my position away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the evening at a Charter Revision Commission meeting, tinkering with the fundamental law of Groton. The process starts to get interesting from here on in; the basic work is done, and now we turn to the issue of the referendum. Groton is well, if unimaginatively governed. We have relatively low taxes. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}