A Reading from the letter of Lance to the Barabooians

And there was much wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

And the peoples cried out for a referendum.

And the Legislature was blamed for the troubles of the day:

Audience member Peter Bildsten told the legislators, "I want to remind you that these 'trying times' were imposed on us by the legislature back in the early '90s," when revenue caps became law. That move was a "power grab" to dictate to local school districts how much they could spend, he said. "You were going to force us to go to referenda."

So, wait a minute…the budget is tight because of the state’s revenue caps?

So…they weren’t tight before the revenue caps?

Somebody remind me – were schools sated with money before the revenue caps became law in 1993?

And then there's the other side of that question: were it not for the revenue caps, just how much would our schools be spending today?

All this and more in my latest column, and no, I didn't excerpt the best part.