Technique: circular reasoning through self-referential sourcing
Several of the site's "sources," including the "Citizens Report" labeled an independent analysis, are the author's own prior Medium posts. Key documents are also hosted on the site's own domain rather than linked to the district's originals on BoardDocs, which makes it harder for a reader to check the primary record directly.
Coyne's own LinkedIn profile confirms the pattern. It lists Britten Coyne Partners as his consulting firm, and the "Citizens Report" is published on Medium under that same Britten Coyne name. The independent-sounding title sits on top of a self-published, self-branded document.
A caution on this entry's scope: re-hosting a document is not fabricating it, and several figures sometimes dismissed as self-sourced are in fact district-record numbers — the 527-of-921 change orders without a stated reason and the roughly $5 million in administrative allocations both appear in the district-hosted Moss Adams report (Observations 14 and 2). The circular-sourcing problem applies to the Citizens Report's own analysis and estimates, not to every number it repeats. Where possible, check the district-hosted originals directly.