{"id":64041,"date":"2017-08-08T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64041"},"modified":"2017-08-07T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:42:24","slug":"foreman-said-these-jobs-are-going-boys-and-they-aint-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64041","title":{"rendered":"Foreman Said &#8220;These Jobs Are Going, Boys, And They Ain&#8217;t Coming Back&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coopers Super Valu, the longtime West Seventh \/ Highland Park anchor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/08\/07\/highland-park-coopers-foods-will-close-and-sibley-plaza-feels-the-blow\/?utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1502107956\">is closing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while the city&#8217;s establishment will do its darnedest to suppress any mention of it, city &#8220;social justice&#8221; policy is at least in part the culprit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSales here have been shrinking,\u201d said Cooper, who noted that difficult union negotiations, <strong>record-keeping related to the city\u2019s new sick-leave mandate<\/strong>, the decline in strip mall tenancies and the store\u2019s pension liabilities were of no help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strip malls come and go &#8211; and Sibley Plaza seems to be on the &#8220;..and go&#8221; side of the equation &#8211; but as the city pours money into Lowertown and upper West Seventh, it&#8217;s orgy of regulations is \u00a0causing problems in parts of town where prosperity is a little more strained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coopers Super Valu, the longtime West Seventh \/ Highland Park anchor, is closing. And while the city&#8217;s establishment will do its darnedest to suppress any mention of it, city &#8220;social justice&#8221; policy is at least in part the culprit: \u201cSales here have been shrinking,\u201d said Cooper, who noted that difficult union negotiations, record-keeping related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64041","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=64041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64042,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64041\/revisions\/64042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}