{"id":3974,"date":"2007-08-29T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2016-10-09T14:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:44:39","slug":"so-much-snark-from-one-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/so-much-snark-from-one-story\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much Snark From One Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/10DA9EE598C17FAD86257345007A63F0?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">City leaders pitch local control of Arch grounds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Francis Slay and former Sen. John Danforth, hoping to revamp the city&#8217;s riverfront, want to convince the public and the federal government there is only one way to do it: obtain part of the Arch grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Taking land from the National Park Service would be rare, if not unprecedented. It would require not only an act of Congress, but also broad political and public support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because Mayor Francis Slay and the &#8220;city&#8221; of St. Louis cannot give away land that it does not own to a land developer whose no-risk loan the &#8220;city&#8221; has co-signed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am being too hard on Mayor Francis Slay and the &#8220;city&#8221; of St. Louis; perhaps they want that land to solve its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/4C565BB87666CB0E8625734200164954?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Lucas Park problem<\/a>; after all, if the homeless are sleeping under the Arch, they&#8217;re only bothering tourists, not voters.  Think of it as a sort of non-monetary tax upon visitors to the city; I know municipalities like to stick it to the middle class transients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City leaders pitch local control of Arch grounds: Mayor Francis Slay and former Sen. John Danforth, hoping to revamp the city&#8217;s riverfront, want to convince the public and the federal government there is only one way to do it: obtain part of the Arch grounds. Taking land from the National Park Service would be rare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15757,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/15757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}