{"id":388,"date":"2004-09-01T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/journal-watch-part-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T19:34:37","slug":"journal-watch-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/journal-watch-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Watch, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ABQjournal Opinion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/1OP9-\n\n01.HTM\">ABQjournal Opinion: &#8216;State of the Art&#8217; Road May Be Headed South<\/a> [har-har]<\/p>\n<p>After U.S. 550 was completed, the Heartland <\/p>\n<p>Institute, a conservative think-tank hailed the arrangement. &#8220;One key factor in the project&#8217;s success is that the state is not telling <\/p>\n<p>Koch how to build the road, &#8230; (allowing) innovative practices often not available to the public sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>Journal Editorial deals with problems with US550, formerly NM44. In 521 words, they fail to mention Gary Johnson once. This is the <\/p>\n<p>virtual Gary Johnson Memorial Highway, a road many saw as a great big thank you to conservative Republicans in the Four Corners. Gary <\/p>\n<p>cheated and violated process to build this road in an outrageously unorthodox manner, all the while promising that this was the <\/p>\n<p>innovative way to do things (borrow and stick us with the bill later). Now we see this was not merely incompetence but criminal. Not that <\/p>\n<p>Gary will be held in any way accountable nor brilliant Republican innovations discredited. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal Opinion: &#8216;State of the Art&#8217; Road May Be Headed South [har-har] After U.S. 550 was completed, the Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank hailed the arrangement. &#8220;One key factor in the project&#8217;s success is that the state is not telling Koch how to build the road, &#8230; (allowing) innovative practices often not available to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/journal-watch-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal Watch, Part 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}