{"id":3172,"date":"2006-06-17T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2017-12-16T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T13:14:03","slug":"after-two-year-study-government-consultants-come-to-shocking-conclusion-new-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/after-two-year-study-government-consultants-come-to-shocking-conclusion-new-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"After Two Year Study, Government Consultants Come to Shocking Conclusion: New Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I could easily save the county government some time and money for <i>any<\/i> topic that it commissions committees or outside firms to study by cutting right to the answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/974C61D6A5E32A59862571900016C718?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">higher fees or taxes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After studying the issue for more than two years, St. Louis County is finally ready to talk trash.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis County Health Department officials met this week with the County Council to begin discussing updates to the existing solid waste ordinance. <b>The Health Department wants to increase recycling by requiring trash companies to include such services in their minimum bill.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By raising the trash rates to encourage recycling, the County hopes to&#8230;..what?  Educate people?  I guess they reason that, since they&#8217;re compelling residents to pay, unvisibly, monthly, that residents will change their daily behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Let me help the county skip the next two year study, and get right to where they&#8217;re going to go anyway: <b>criminal penalties and fines for throwing glass into the garbage can<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I could easily save the county government some time and money for any topic that it commissions committees or outside firms to study by cutting right to the answer: higher fees or taxes: After studying the issue for more than two years, St. Louis County is finally ready to talk trash. St. Louis 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-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","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=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18699,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/18699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}