{"id":1889,"date":"2005-01-25T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T22:04:23","slug":"1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue the Violins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2005\/01\/25\/MNGAUB00H01.DTL\" target=\"_new\">Rural counties keep afloat with tape and bubble gum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weaverville, Trinity County &#8212; Supervisors in this 13,000-resident county the size of Rhode Island are postponing $3 million in road repairs to keep Trinity&#8217;s debt-ridden hospital afloat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You mean Trinity County, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/Build%20Insp-Env%20Health\/Airportslink1.htm\" target=\"_new\">owns and operates five public use general aviation airports located throughout the County<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Trinity County, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/grants\/Forms\/Master%20Applic%20Prop%2010%20V12-15-03%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_new\">gives out grants<\/a> according to the directives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/grants\/Forms\/Master%20Strategic%20Plan%20-%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_new\">its Trinity County Children and Families First Commission&#8217;s Strategic Plan<\/a> [to spend money]?<\/p>\n<p>Which has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/HHS\/tobed.htm\" target=\"_new\">Department of Tobacco Education<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Which has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/Risk%20Management\/risk.htm\" target=\"_new\">Department of Risk Management<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Which has a number of parks and its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/departments\/Library\/library.htm\" target=\"_new\">Library System<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Although money might be scarce, I think that these municipalities, like most other governments, lack clear priorities.  They run out of money before they run out of ideas, but they don&#8217;t put the ideas on hold or examine their feasibility; instead, they get more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: Rural counties keep afloat with tape and bubble gum: Weaverville, Trinity County &#8212; Supervisors in this 13,000-resident county the size of Rhode Island are postponing $3 million in road repairs to keep Trinity&#8217;s debt-ridden hospital afloat. You mean Trinity County, which owns and operates five public use general aviation airports located throughout the County? [&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-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20654,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}