{"id":350,"date":"2013-09-27T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=350"},"modified":"2013-09-27T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:51:48","slug":"heads-up-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2013\/09\/27\/heads-up-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads Up Dover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article in Seacoast Online: <a href=\"http:\/\/fosters.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=%2F20130919%2FGJOPINION_0102%2F130919177%2F-1%2FFOSOPINION\">An education conversation: A time for all of Dover to engage<\/a>, <em>&#8220;Dover Listens will host a Community Conversation on Education this year. Planning and information sharing will take place this fall, and thoughtful, extended conversations will be organized for <strong>January and February of 2014<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article states in part that <em>&#8220;Dover Listens is a nonaffiliated, diverse group of citizens whose sole purpose is to provide a safe and fair forum for its diverse residents to get informed, discuss community issues, and ultimately help shape the future of Dover. Ensuring and securing a range of perspectives is critical to our mission.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They neglected to tell you that &#8220;Dover Listens&#8221; is the PR firm for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitestatefuture.org\/regions\/strafford-region\/\">Strafford Regional Planning Commission<\/a> which is basically an unelected board of lobbyists for HUD&#8217;s mission for Dover and other towns and cities in the area. <\/p>\n<p><strong>If you do not attend and steer the conversation yourself, you will be sent in a predetermined direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please watch the SRPC&#8217;s webpage for the dates of these 2014 sessions on Education. You might find that something you already voted down, being brought up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article in Seacoast Online: An education conversation: A time for all of Dover to engage, &#8220;Dover Listens will host a Community Conversation on Education this year. Planning and information sharing will take place this fall, and thoughtful, extended conversations will be organized for January and February of 2014.&#8221; The article states in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}