{"id":40240,"date":"2013-12-05T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40240"},"modified":"2013-11-28T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:33:58","slug":"buck-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40240","title":{"rendered":"Buck Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>The old Sears Roebuck building on Lake Street in Minneapolis was converted into Midtown Global Market, an indoor bazaar.\u00a0 It\u2019s been losing money for years.\u00a0 Now the mayor wants\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/233406531.html\" target=\"_blank\">another $1.8 million to bail them out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look, Mr. Mayor:\u00a0 if the project can\u2019t make enough money to fund its own operations, it\u2019s not a business: it\u2019s a hobby.\u00a0\u00a0The City has no business funding hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it\u2019s Minneapolis, so I don\u2019t care what they do in their own town.\u00a0 But whatever Minneapolis does, St. Paul wants to do, like a younger brother who whines \u201cHow come I didn\u2019t get a train?\u201d \u00a0Throwing cold water on damn-foolishness is wise, no matter where it occurs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That, and the bill is eventually going to be passed on to taxpayers in Moorhead, Wilmar and Lakeville (and any left in Saint Paul) via Local Government Aid.  <\/p>\n<p>Which is, of course, why we have Local Government Aid &#8211; so the citizens of Minneapolis can continue to be gulled into thinking their government is doing its job with the tax money they extract for life in the city.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The old Sears Roebuck building on Lake Street in Minneapolis was converted into Midtown Global Market, an indoor bazaar.\u00a0 It\u2019s been losing money for years.\u00a0 Now the mayor wants\u00a0another $1.8 million to bail them out. &nbsp; Look, Mr. Mayor:\u00a0 if the project can\u2019t make enough money to fund its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240","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=40240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40245,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions\/40245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}