{"id":1151,"date":"2004-07-14T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:18:56","slug":"1151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/14\/1151\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Columnist in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best columnist in St. Louis is David Nicklaus, business columnist for the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>.  Check out the wisdom from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/David+Nicklaus\/B9191196916599B586256ED1003A1DEA?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Light+rail+comes+at+a+heavy+price\" target=\"_new\">his latest column<\/a> taking on light rail groupies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With what&#8217;s spent on the trains, Castelazo and Garrett figure that taxpayers could buy a Toyota Prius for each needy MetroLink rider and have $49 million a year left over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see someone in the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> examining the actual return on the copious public wealth redistribution the paper favors as a matter-of-course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best columnist in St. Louis is David Nicklaus, business columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Check out the wisdom from his latest column taking on light rail groupies: With what&#8217;s spent on the trains, Castelazo and Garrett figure that taxpayers could buy a Toyota Prius for each needy MetroLink rider and have $49 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23079,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/23079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}