The Sunday Providence Journal features the current legal squabble over school funding in Portsmouth on page B1, and leads with a story about a harassing phone call I got from a supporter of the PCC.

The story does a good job at making PCC leaders look like reality-denying cranks. Check out Pete McIntyre's head-scratching quotes.

I'm thrilled that Rhode Island's newspaper of record has delivered a stinging smackdown to the local anti-school spin machine, and I'm obviously chuffed to be quoted.

Portsmouth divided over school spending
By Gina Macris
PORTSMOUTH — When taxpayers — led by the powerful Portsmouth Concerned Citizens — cut $1.1 million from the town’s school budget last summer, resident John McDaid wrote a letter to the editors of local newspapers comparing the PCC to the nation’s first suicide bomber, a Michigan man who in 1927 blew up a school full of children — and himself — because his taxes were too high.

After McDaid’s letter was published, he received an anonymous call from a man who called him “scurrilous and stupid.”
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You can surf the archives here to see the "Bath Schoolhouse Massacre" letter that got the PCC so annoyed:
America’s first suicide car bomber wasn’t fighting capitalism, globalization, or even MTV. He blew himself up over property taxes for education.

He was upset because his tax rate was too high, you see.
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Or read my side of the harassing phone call.