{"id":60689,"date":"2016-10-26T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60689"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:34:31","slug":"public-private-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60689","title":{"rendered":"Public-Private Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Neighborhood Facebook page was discussing what will happen when non-profits are no longer paying ROW fees in St Paul. I questioned exactly what our property taxes, which continue to rise, are paying for if the ROW assessments are paying for basic city services. Now, I see- people are paying higher taxes which then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/10\/22\/north-end-salons-public-funding-becomes-private-nightmare\/\">go into grants to small businesses to hire city contractors to pay workers double wages to do shoddy work<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the whole thing; it&#8217;s a classic contractor horror story combined with a classic incompetent government story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes: Neighborhood Facebook page was discussing what will happen when non-profits are no longer paying ROW fees in St Paul. I questioned exactly what our property taxes, which continue to rise, are paying for if the ROW assessments are paying for basic city services. Now, I see- people are paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689","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=60689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60690,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions\/60690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}