{"id":11093,"date":"2015-09-22T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2015-09-22T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T23:07:09","slug":"matney-does-the-right-thing-as-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11093","title":{"rendered":"Matney does the right thing &#8230; as always"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/matney2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11094\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/matney2.jpg\" alt=\"matney2\" width=\"297\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Matney has been a pillar of Amarillo for far longer than the 20-plus years I&#8217;ve known him.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard today that he resigned from a downtown Amarillo board over a potential conflict of interest, my first though was: Yep, that&#8217;s Paul. He usually follows the right path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/30091061\/dai-board-member-paul-matney-resigns\">Matney joined a group<\/a>\u00a0that is promoting approval of the Nov. 3 advisory vote on whether to proceed with the multipurpose event venue. He also had served as a member of the Downtown Amarillo Inc., board, which is an arm of City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now the co-chairman of Vote For Amarillo, which is launching a campaign promoting the MPEV.<\/p>\n<p>Matney issued a statement that said, in part: &#8220;Even though I am serving Vote for Amarillo as a private and interested citizen, and not as a representative of DAI, in order to clear up any confusion, I believe the right thing to do is to resign from the DAI board. Thus, I have submitted my resignation from the DAI board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s enough confusion out there over this issue. There need not be any hint of it as it regards Paul Matney, a long-time educator and college administrator, whose last full-time job was as president of Amarillo College.<\/p>\n<p>Matney&#8217;s standing in Amarillo is beyond reproach. His resignation from he DAI board demonstrates it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Matney has been a pillar of Amarillo for far longer than the 20-plus years I&#8217;ve known him. When I heard today that he resigned from a downtown Amarillo board over a potential conflict of interest, my first though was: Yep, that&#8217;s Paul. He usually follows the right path. Matney joined a group\u00a0that is promoting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matney does the right thing &#8230; as always<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[295,1232,1436,3153,3522,5500],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-college","tag-dai-inc","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev","tag-paul-matney","tag-vote-for-amarillo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}