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## Some Leelanau History

February 6th, 2009 | Tags: center, court, education, for, Goldschmidt, history, invitation, leelanau, Neil, school
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I came across some interesting files today. The first one is an invitation from The Leelanau School to Ohio (ex)Governor Neil Goldschmidt (click for the full version)

The other one is a court document from the Michigan State Court of Appeals referencing a case the school was involved in. Here’s an excerpt:

” Respondent also contends that the MTT erred by failing to consider the effect of a tax
exemption for the Prince Center on competing establishments. In support of its argument,
respondent relies solely on Leelanau Center for Education v Leelanau Twp, 5 MTT 388 (Docket
No. 96752, February 26, 1988). Although in that case the MTT compared the premises at issue
with other private camps, no rule of law required the MTT in the instant case to make such
comparisons. Thus, respondent’s argument that the MTT legally erred by failing to consider the
effect of a tax exemption on any competing establishments is unavailing.”

Does anybody know what this case is about? Does anybody have a copy of the case? I’ve heard that Leelanau has been involved in lawsuits/cases several times before, but this is the first time I’ve come across such information online. As always, you can send an email to leelanautalk{at}gmail.com. We keep our sources secret. Leaking a really sensitive document? You might want to try Wikileaks.

Till next time,

adb

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Quick News Update New Headmaster of Leelanau: Matt Ralston

1. a friend
   March 18th, 2009 at 17:38
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   does ADB still go to Leelanau? I could have sworn he graduated….move on dude.

2. a friend
   March 18th, 2009 at 17:39
   Reply | Quote | #2

   Also, for a site that promotes free speech, why are you moderating comments?

3. adb
   March 19th, 2009 at 00:20
   Reply | Quote | #3

   > a friend :

   > Also, for a site that promotes free speech, why are you moderating comments?

   Comments aren’t normally moderated and they usually get posted immediately. Sometimes our anti-spam filter thinks your post isn’t legit so it holds it for moderation. We’ll automatically approve anything that isn’t spam. Since we launched this new blog, we’ve had about 300 attempts by spammers to make comments and excluding one other comment, yours was the first to cause a false positive.

   After looking into it a bit more, it looks like all comments are now moderated by default. This is because we installed a plugin that locked down what users can do, but it wasn’t supposed to automatically moderate everything. We tried un-installing the plugin but that didn’t fix the problem. Even my own comments are being moderated. We’re talking with the developer to see what’s up. Until then, all comments will be moderated : (

   The site might be getting a complete re-design this summer anyways. Drupal works a lot better than Wordpress (what we currently use) for what we need, so we’ll probably switch back to that. All of the articles/photos/comments/whatever from this site will transfer over.

   Thanks for alerting us to this problem and I’ll fix it as soon as I can.

   adb

4. cgdawdvv
   June 24th, 2009 at 22:52
   #4

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