{"id":1505,"date":"2007-10-26T06:34:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2007-10-26T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:34:01","slug":"details-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Details, Details?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Coleman is a monkey for the local chamber of commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He notes (at the behest of local car dealers) that Flatiron – the company building the new 35W River Bridge – has bought a bunch of new trucks.<\/p>\n

In Colorado.\u00a0 With Colorado registrations.<\/p>\n

A Flatiron spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment, but permit me to sum up the situation here: Buying Colorado trucks for a high-profile project in Minnesota that still carries the emotional pangs of death and destruction? Dumb, Flatiron.<\/p>\n

This is a company that was judged to have better public “outreach” than the local firms that lost out on the project, despite submitting lower bids. Would a Minnesota company buy a shiny new fleet for the project from, say, Colorado?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Depending on Minnesota’s business tax laws, or conditions of one deal or another the Minnesota company had cut with taxpayers?<\/p>\n

I mean, the short answer is this; I have no idea why they’d buy and register their new fleet of trucks in Colorado.\u00a0 One might think that there must be some state tax-related reason to buy trucks there, in their home state and the state in which they are incorporated, rather than here.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, while the bridge collapse was indeed an emotional cataclysm for Minnesota, I don’t care if the engineers and ironworkers involved in the reconstruction share those emotions<\/em> or not.\u00a0 Indeed, I’d just as soon they kept emotion out of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Coleman is a monkey for the local chamber of commerce. He notes (at the behest of local car dealers) that Flatiron – the company building the new 35W River Bridge – has bought a bunch of new trucks. In Colorado.\u00a0 With Colorado registrations. A Flatiron spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}