{"id":78443,"date":"2021-06-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78443"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:57:55","slug":"expect-lots-of-headlines-about-covid-and-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78443","title":{"rendered":"Expect Lots Of Headlines About Covid And Marijuana Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the state heads toward a mid-term election with the control of both the House and Senate, to say nothing of the Constitutional Offices, at stake, a poll shows <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/poll-majority-of-citizens-dissatisfied-with-walzs-approach-to-handling-crime\/\">MInnesotans are un-thrilled with government&#8217;s handling of events<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Considering opinions on Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s approach to handling crime, the results have virtually flipped since last year in terms of approval. In June of 2020, 59% approved and 35% disapproved of the governor\u2019s approach to crime, but in June of 2021, 55% disapproved and only 39% approved&#8230;Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they visited Minneapolis less than normal in the past year, compared to 4% who said they visited the city more frequently than in the past.<\/p><p>Despite this, a majority of Minnesotans do trust law enforcement to keep the city safe \u2014 far more than they trust elected leaders in the state to do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ample reasons for dissatisfaction are obvious.  And some are not so much . More tomorrow in this space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the state heads toward a mid-term election with the control of both the House and Senate, to say nothing of the Constitutional Offices, at stake, a poll shows MInnesotans are un-thrilled with government&#8217;s handling of events: Considering opinions on Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s approach to handling crime, the results have virtually flipped since last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,7,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78443","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=78443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78443\/revisions\/78444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}