{"id":574,"date":"2007-03-14T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/14\/standing-astride-history-yelling-stop\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T09:54:12","slug":"standing-astride-history-yelling-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Standing Astride History, Yelling Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small north &#8216;burb of Spring Lake Park <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/142\/story\/1047379.html\">stands up and is counted against a statewide smoking ban<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To the delight of some and the embarrassment of others, the City Council last week voted 4-1 in favor of a resolution that said the city &#8220;is opposed to a statewide smoking ban without exceptions recognizing the personal and property rights of all individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bob Nelson and City Council members Jeanne Mason, Bill Loesch and Dale Dahl voted for the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a small city, with about 7,000 people. If we lose a couple bars, we have to transfer that to the taxpayers,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any way to recoup money like that. If we lose a business, we have to raise property taxes.&#8221;I&#8217;m an auxiliary member at the VFW &#8212; they go all over the world to fight for freedom and they come back and can&#8217;t even have a cigarette in their own club,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There might be hope out there.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, not much of it is at the state capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small north &#8216;burb of Spring Lake Park stands up and is counted against a statewide smoking ban: To the delight of some and the embarrassment of others, the City Council last week voted 4-1 in favor of a resolution that said the city &#8220;is opposed to a statewide smoking ban without exceptions recognizing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}