{"id":878,"date":"2009-09-16T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-09-16T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:37:38","slug":"even-the-city-is-somehow-saved-at-the-last-minute-unlikely-we-gotta-make-some-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Even if the city is, somehow, saved at the last minute (unlikely), we gotta make some changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-879\" href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?attachment_id=879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-879\" title=\"1359822\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1359822-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"1359822\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1359822-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1359822.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state legislation that would save our bacon (temporarily) is stalled in the Senate. \u00a0On Friday, 3,000 pink slips will go out and we&#8217;ll in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyw1060.com\/Preparing-to-Pull-the-Doomsday-Trigger\/5230509\">the express lane to Shitsville<\/a>. \u00a0At this point, it does not look like there will be an eleventh hour compromise.<\/p>\n<p>This catastrophe did not happen overnight. \u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\/cms\/news\/government-politics\/2009\/09\/16\/reform-group-sees-opportunity-in-recession\/17949\">recent article on whyy radio<\/a> highlighted a study by our local political watchdog group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seventy.org\/COS_HM_Home.aspx\">The Committe of Seventy<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seventy.org\/OurViews_Tackling_True_Reform.aspx\">The study<\/a> outlines a lot of issues that hold back city government and contribute to situations like the current mess. \u00a0One of the issues is one-party rule. \u00a0Even though it&#8217;s my party, I still see how the lack of options contributes to the intractable corruption.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that, should we somehow dodge this bullet, a bullet, by the way, that most people don&#8217;t seem to care much about, then we, as a city, must look these recommendations and others and get our heads out of the mud, before we stop breathing altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state legislation that would save our bacon (temporarily) is stalled in the Senate. \u00a0On Friday, 3,000 pink slips will go out and we&#8217;ll in the express lane to Shitsville. \u00a0At this point, it does not look like there will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[697,818,820,819,810,821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}