In an election year, the popular question in pop politics is “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” But I have another to add:<\/p>\n
I haven’t been to the library in a while, gentle reader, so when my beautiful wife and I went in late last week, I was surprised to see a little security guard station with a security guard in it at the entrance to the library proper, past the gift shop, the bathrooms, and the meeting room entrances. I mentioned it on the way out, and my wife agreed that she hadn’t seen it before, either.<\/p>\n
Yesterday after church, we stopped at the Hy-Vee, which is almost the most la-di-dah of groceries in Springfield. At 9:30 on a Sunday morning, Hy-Vee had an armed security guard walking around the front of the store.<\/p>\n
Now, this was not atypical for the store where I worked back in the day, but that store was in a neighborhood in transition. Why are all of the neighborhoods seemingly transitioning these days? And why are security guards proliferating?<\/em><\/p>\n And is there any particular persuasion of elected official who might have an impact on reversing that trend? Hint: It’s not the former prosecutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an election year, the popular question in pop politics is “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” But I have another to add: I haven’t been to the library in a while, gentle reader, so when my beautiful wife and I went in late last week, I was surprised to see […]<\/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-32940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940","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=32940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32942,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32940\/revisions\/32942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}