This conservative prefers facts, and this newspaper (this is another example) prefers to obscure them when it does not benefit the partisan message it now tries to promote.

This amounts to FINALLY paying a way overdue bill. Money was taken away from schools to help balance the budget, with a promise to pay it back later. This forced school districts--and ultimately this comes from TAXPAYER'S pockets--to cash out any rainy day savings and to borrow money to pay their day to day bills.

The "I'll pay you later" plan pulled back billions to help keep the state budget afloat--but at a cost to pay back down the line.

This is one of the "kick the can down the road" solutions the legislature--led by republicans --came up with.

This conservative believes in paying bills when they are due, and absolutely does not think that trumpeting the fact that you finally paid them--late--should be viewed as something to pat ANY legislator on the back for.

Particularly Paul Gazelka!

If you want to get some accolades Paul, get into the discussion of reforming the state aid to schools formula, so that these small school districts in this article don't have to suck more money from local taxpayers in property taxes. This hits poorer rural school districts MUCH harder than rich suburban metro districts--a point that was NOT lost on the republicans while pushing the "pay our bill later" plan.

I will gladly pay you Tuesday if you buy me a hamburger today?

Speaking of schools, I just heard from a very good source that Razidlo and 181 is planning on building a $700,000 "warehouse" that will be attached to Forestview. They are also planning on moving the special ed people from that building by Riverside to Washington, complete with a refurbish of their new offices. They are then going to bull-doze the building by Riverside and make it a parking lot!!!! ARE THEY SERIOUS??? Just after we approved an operating levy???? If this is true, there needs to be a march on Razidlo's office. I hope the new school board members have the courage to say no, especially in this uncertain time.

Does anyone else wonder what kinds of payouts Brainerd and other area schools will receive? If any?
The article said: "school districts across the state" . . .
Just wondering . . .

It's the building to west of Riverside, between N.W. 3rd and 4th

Thanks for the reminder ProudRINO.

That's kind of like a bank robber wanting a pat on the back for not getting caught robbing a bank.

Ask little Johnny. Thats his area.

Do you suppose the school districts will now hold a reverse levy to give us back the money they took from us in the last bond levy election now that they got their money back from the state. I imagine they wouldn't have needed that last levy if they would have had their money from the state. They insisted that the state give them their money back so it would be only fair that the schools give the taxpayers out money back.

that much property puts Dutch into the 1% and he needs to start paying his fair share and quit whining. He voted for BHO and needs to go over the cliff first!

You already know he is the 2nd best lib on here. I vote we take him to Canada ice fishing. 3 go in & 2 come out?? Let's see how tough that old football player really is ehh??

Hein1 is another 1%er!!!!!

& No it's not me. Has to be somebody wearing my skin again. Darn 1%erter's can afford to do that Ya know!!!

Groovy...

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Scribbs you are the 2nd person down that line. 30 yrs ago. So now your're saying that's a bad thing??LOL You would have to let me inform the little one's.

Hein sure was fun!! Keep an-eye on that native thing for me. It really could interesting there.

You local school taxes are going up to cover the loss of state aid Sverre. While school funding can get a bit complex there is a simple relationship here. It goes back to funding formulas for our schools as set down by the state legislature. Years ago, as part of a bi-partisan led effort to insure every MN kid had a decent education whether they lived in small poor rural district or rich urban suburban one--schools were agreed to be funded in great part by taxes managed by the state.

In recent legislatures, as the state budget has been in trouble they have reduced promised payments to schools with a promise to pay them back later.

So you have schools budgeting and hiring and planning to pay future bills with one expected $$ figure suddenly told sorry--we won't give you all of that figure right away, we'll get it to you later.

So schools, to keep the doors open and educate kids, have to find that money somewhere.

This was a known [filtered word] for tat response to the republican legislators behind these proposals (though to be fair democrats voted for it too), the difference being that it was acceptable to the republicans as their votes and power base comes more from rich urban school districts. And it allowed them to use tactics just like Gazelka has here--they can falsely deflect blame for local school tax hikes as not being tied to the legislature.

And then--incredibly to me--have the GALL to ask for a pat on the back when the promised money come back to the districts--albeit LATE.