{"id":389,"date":"2004-09-01T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/journal-watch\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T19:35:49","slug":"journal-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/journal-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Las Cruces Puts Runway Damage at $1 Million\" \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/216167nm09-01-04.htm\">ABQjournal: Las Cruces Puts Runway Damage at $1 Million<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City <\/p>\n<p>officials said airport staff warned members of the president&#8217;s advance team and a pilot that runway 4\/22 did not have the weight-bearing <\/p>\n<p>capacity to handle the big cargo jets or the Boeing 757 the president flew in on. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Republican?] Mayor Bill Mattiace said the <\/p>\n<p>incident could be a &#8221;blessing in disguise&#8221; if the city is able to gain federal funding to build a stronger, longer runway. [mjh: <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;federal funding&#8217;? As in &#8216;money stolen from taxpayers&#8217;?]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, I&#8217;m relieved to see (in my own anecdotal, unscientific <\/p>\n<p>way) that the Albuquerque Journal finally mentioned the damage Bush&#8217;s recent visit did to an airport runway in Las Cruces (a few days <\/p>\n<p>after the story broke). I&#8217;m even stunned it made it to page one (well below the fold, proving it is still not as important as Kerry&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>crime against commuters). Notice this headline writer doesn&#8217;t mention Bush.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for <a title=\"mjh's Blog: Cheap \n\nShots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/000373.htm\">the editorial<\/a> demanding Bush pay for the repairs. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Las Cruces Puts Runway Damage at $1 Million City officials said airport staff warned members of the president&#8217;s advance team and a pilot that runway 4\/22 did not have the weight-bearing capacity to handle the big cargo jets or the Boeing 757 the president flew in on. &#8230; [Republican?] Mayor Bill Mattiace said the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/journal-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal Watch<\/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-389","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\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}