{"id":85753,"date":"2023-08-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85753"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:34:53","slug":"them-the-eat-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85753","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overdoses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public solicitation and delivery of prostitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open drug dealing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gang activity. Robberies. Muggings. Assaults <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I’m not talking about the House DFL Caucus offices. I’m talking about the big Metro Transit stations in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what’s the remedy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Metro Transit and its big government stakeholders: murals<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Metro Transit is turning to murals in an effort to make its bus and light-rail stations more welcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest installation is at the I-35W and Lake Street Transit Station in south Minneapolis, a busy hub that’s been plagued by graffiti and where two people were wounded<\/a> in a shooting this spring. Police data also show there have been two robberies near the station this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local artist Kada Goalen spent six weeks and 90 gallons of paint transforming gray and beige concrete walls and pillars into a vibrant spectacle featuring giant songbirds against a backdrop of color.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let’s cut to the chase: what this is is not <\/em>a serious attempt to make Transit less onerous at best, dangerous at worst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s yet another transfer of money from taxpayers to the favored clients of the political class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overdoses. Public solicitation and delivery of prostitution. Open drug dealing. Gang activity. Robberies. Muggings. Assaults No, I’m not talking about the House DFL Caucus offices. I’m talking about the big Metro Transit stations in Minneapolis. And what’s the remedy? According to Metro Transit and its big government stakeholders: murals. Metro Transit is turning to murals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-crime-and-punishment","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85758,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753\/revisions\/85758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}