{"id":64841,"date":"2017-10-19T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64841"},"modified":"2017-10-18T19:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:57:56","slug":"the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64841","title":{"rendered":"The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of this blog writes:<\/p>\n

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The title of this piece<\/a> says a lot<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The title:\u00a0“Mayor: If restaurants can\u2019t be ordered to use recyclables, persuasion is a lost cause”.<\/p>\n

And it means exactly what it says:<\/p>\n

Mayor Chris Coleman\u2019s office and St. Paul\u2019s Department of Safety and Inspections are showing little enthusiasm for spending another year encouraging store owners to voluntarily switch toward recyclable and compostable to-go food containers.<\/p>\n

The city council voted 5-2 on Oct. 11 against requiring restaurants, convenience stores and other eateries to make the switch outright. Instead, council members opted to give city staff another year to help connect them to environmentally friendly container vendors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why, it’s almost as if free-market businesses, when given the “choice” over whether to cut their margins to little or no economic or environmental benefit, will choose “No thanks!”.<\/p>\n

Which just frosts the city’s rice krispies (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday, DSI staff and the mayor\u2019s office informed council members by email that after roughly a year of outreach, they would not devote another year of staff time to the effort without a guarantee that the new rules will be adopted<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You drown more flies with vinegar than honey.\u00a0 Just look at Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of this blog writes: The title of this piece says a lot The title:\u00a0“Mayor: If restaurants can\u2019t be ordered to use recyclables, persuasion is a lost cause”. And it means exactly what it says: Mayor Chris Coleman\u2019s office and St. Paul\u2019s Department of Safety and Inspections are showing little enthusiasm for spending another […]<\/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-64841","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\/64841","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=64841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64842,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64841\/revisions\/64842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}