An article from the New Republic raising questions about the Mayo Clinic's planned $6 billion expansion in Rochester was disparaged last night by Jay Furst, managing editor of the Rochester Post Bulletin.
Held Hostage by a Hospital: The Mayo Clinic is making Rochester, Minn., double in size—and billing residents for it
Furst points out 10 errors in the story, which was written by Ilan Greenberg -- and that, he said, is just at first glance.
Among the 10:
9/ "The local archdiocese" didn't build the new Lourdes High School: This may be the biggest howler on the list. There's only one Catholic archdiocese in Minnesota and it ain't here. The Diocese of Winona covers Rochester, and while the local churches raised money and the diocese chipped in, a lot of Rochester area people who wrote big checks for Lourdes will be surprised to read that the "local archdiocese" built it.
10/ Mayo didn't tell Ardell Brede that the city would need to cough up more tax money for DMC: I stand corrected: No. 9 isn't the biggest howler, this one is. Mayo didn't "tell" the city it would need to pump in more tax revenue. That happened at the Legislature.
After listing the errors, Furst writes:
"For a piece that's awfully aggressive, it wasn't well-vetted."
