{"id":13974,"date":"2012-08-30T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T10:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-08-30T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T10:53:53","slug":"republic-missouri-opts-not-to-curtail-citizen-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/republic-missouri-opts-not-to-curtail-citizen-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic, Missouri, Opts Not To Curtail Citizen Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Republic, Missouri, which has considered whether to mandate a trash collection service for its citizens instead of allowing residents to choose a trash hauler, has decided <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.kspr.com\/2012-08-27\/trash-haulers_33431834\" target=\"_blank\">not to take that small bit of liberty after all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A years long trash debate in the city of Republic created a stinky situation. City Council met Monday night to decide if the city should take over trash operations and sign business over to one company. Currently, it&#8217;s up to individuals to hire trash haulers. In a 2-6 decision, council silenced the situation and killed the measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The citizens&#8217; freedom to choose overcame the government&#8217;s self-interest arguments (save money on the road wear) and the government&#8217;s benefits for citizens arguments (it would give the citizens a lower rate).<\/p>\n<p>So a small victory for limited government this week in a small town in southwest Missouri.  Maybe that explains why it&#8217;s so hard to find news coverage of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Republic, Missouri, which has considered whether to mandate a trash collection service for its citizens instead of allowing residents to choose a trash hauler, has decided not to take that small bit of liberty after all: A years long trash debate in the city of Republic created a stinky situation. City Council [&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-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","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=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}