{"id":89420,"date":"2025-03-21T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89420"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T12:33:08","slug":"all-that-doesnt-glitter-in-saint-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89420","title":{"rendered":"All That Doesn’t Glitter In Saint Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saint Paul’s “Tony Soprano”-style trash collection system – which has morphed over the past decade from individually-contracted vendors to a dozen or so vendors allocated across the city by a city plan that drove most of them out of Saint Paul, to now one single contracted vendor that sucked up to the city properly, is facing a shutdown before it really starts<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After years of bitter debates that came be called “the trash wars,”<\/a> the start of the new garbage hauler’s contract on April 1 is supposed to mark a turning point in the city’s bid to take a more central role in managing the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

t. Paul City Council members voted 5-0 on Wednesday to block the new hauler, FCC Environmental, from placing its truck yard on a lot the company purchased last summer off West Seventh Street, just blocks from the Schmidt Artist Lofts.<\/p>\n

The vote stems from a January appeal filed by a neighborhood group, which has argued the trash facility would undermine long-term plans<\/a> for residential, mixed-use, transit-oriented development in the area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lesson #1 – the most powerful people in Saint Paul are white upper middle class “artists” living off government “humanities” grants in lofts. They may be even more powerful than white progressive 60-something livelong DFL women from Mac Groveland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard as that may be to believe.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson #2 – White Saint Paul progressives apprently think that trash goes to the same place food comes from; some magical building.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saint Paul’s “Tony Soprano”-style trash collection system – which has morphed over the past decade from individually-contracted vendors to a dozen or so vendors allocated across the city by a city plan that drove most of them out of Saint Paul, to now one single contracted vendor that sucked up to the city properly, is […]<\/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-89420","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\/89420","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=89420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89423,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89420\/revisions\/89423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}