{"id":87284,"date":"2024-04-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87284"},"modified":"2024-04-05T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:55:27","slug":"the-thing-that-wouldnt-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87284","title":{"rendered":"The Thing That Wouldn’t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was always afraid the activists had too much control, [the FOB’s spouse] was confident that the state wouldn’t do something this stupid. But, it is getting talked about in mainstream media now<\/a>. It’s probably really going to happen, isn’t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The FOB is talking about the “Plan” being pushed by “advocates” to replace I94 between the downtowns with a “boulevard”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally at this point, of course, I’d say it’s just another racket to transfer money from the taxpayers to the non-profit and consultant “advocate” class. They can write puff-piece reports<\/a> and squalls of PR material on the indirect public dime, build entire careers out of yapping about vaporware projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the people who love to play with the levers and buttons and knobs of government have gotten their hands on this, so I’d say the odds are pretty decent that a lot more money will be spent on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obvious question is, what happens when an untstoppable money-squandering force (the drive to gut 94) meets the immovable money-squandering object (the drive to put a deck over the freeway to rebuild Rondo)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can’t both <\/em>win…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of the blog emails: I was always afraid the activists had too much control, [the FOB’s spouse] was confident that the state wouldn’t do something this stupid. But, it is getting talked about in mainstream media now. It’s probably really going to happen, isn’t it?\u00a0 The FOB is talking about the “Plan” being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,57,320,28,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-leftymoney","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mndfl","category-st-paul","category-the-nonprofit-industrial-complex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87284","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=87284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87286,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87284\/revisions\/87286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}