{"id":46795,"date":"2014-08-29T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46795"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:22:05","slug":"smoke-up-minnesotas-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46795","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo:  The Dayton Economy Just Keeps Getting Better And Better!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just keep repeating it to yourself, DFLers; the Dayton economy is awesome!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=21243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21243\" title=\"chanting_points_200px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chanting_points_200px.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dayton economy is awesome!<\/p>\n<p>The Dayton economy is awesome!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance-commerce.com\/2014\/08\/sobering-month-for-homebuilders\/\">Housing starts are off 15 percent in August<\/a> (the full story appeared on MPR last night &#8211; but naturally isn&#8217;t available online today):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Confidence in the local homebuilding market took a hit in August, as permits for new single-family houses declined 15 percent from a year ago and permits for new multifamily units were down 78 percent.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the price of farm land &#8211; one of the key indicators and drivers of the farm economy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2014\/08\/25\/farmland-prices\">is slipping in Minnesota<\/a>. \u00a0But hey, at least they&#8217;ll be getting <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolchat.areavoices.com\/2014\/07\/17\/minnesota-farmland-taxes-expected-to-rise\/\">taxed more<\/a> for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just keep repeating it to yourself, DFLers; the Dayton economy is awesome! The Dayton economy is awesome! The Dayton economy is awesome! Housing starts are off 15 percent in August (the full story appeared on MPR last night &#8211; but naturally isn&#8217;t available online today): Confidence in the local homebuilding market took a hit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,108,117],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-46795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-chanting-points-memo","category-dayton-dustbowl","tag-mngov-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795","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=46795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48262,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46795\/revisions\/48262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}