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Here’s an interesting turn of events. Some of our esteemed solons, including Justin Alfond of Portland (we keep running into that name!), are suggesting that we dump the present school budget approval process. Read about it in this morning’s Kennebec Journal here. “Money” (pardon) quote: Three lawmakers on the Education Committee have recently suggested eliminating [...] The Bangor Daily News‘s justly-famous election results pages are here. If the election and its results/aftermath have made you grumpy, why that’s good, and good for you. Everybody has an “Eeyore day“. It would be foolish to get melodramatic about a single election result. But at some time in the future, we may pinpoint yesterday as the moment when our schools finally passed over, irrevocably, into State control. Just as predictions, and election predictions in particular, are just about, or worse than, useless, so too are post-election [...] "Peaceful anti-statist animal spirits are loose in the land!" Cartoon from Boots and the Mystery of the Unlucky Vase, Edgar Everett Martin, 1943. Caption a (slight) paraphrase of Jonah Goldberg’s concluding phrase here. In yesterday’s post, we pointed out the futility of predicting electoral behavior, and then went on to make an “if…, then…” statement. Following up on that, it may be useful to think through the implications of Question 3 being defeated. What happens then? The State has already mandated a “floor” of $30,000 for teacher salaries. [...] |
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