{"id":2450327,"date":"2019-10-24T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/excessive-redundancy-by-aspen-city-council\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:20:42","slug":"excessive-redundancy-by-aspen-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/excessive-redundancy-by-aspen-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Excessive redundancy by Aspen City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Why are there five members of Aspen City Council? We could save time (the boring, interminable debates) and money (four salaries) and get the same senseless results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The recent counterproductive \u201cdeadly weapons in city buildings\u201d ordinance proves the point. Employees want the right to bear arms to defend themselves; instead, they\u2019re condemned to remain defenseless at work while a \u201cunanimous\u201d council adopts a virtue-signaling non-measure that broadcasts to the universe of \u201cevil doers\u201d (George W. Bush, circa 2002) \u201cour city employees are sitting ducks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It doesn\u2019t take five neurally inactive people to accomplish this. One would be enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/excessive-redundancy-by-aspen-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there five members of Aspen City Council? We could save time (the boring, interminable debates) and money (four salaries) and get the same senseless results. The recent counterproductive \u201cdeadly weapons in city buildings\u201d ordinance proves the point. Employees want the right to bear arms to defend themselves; instead, they\u2019re condemned to remain defenseless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 11:52:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450358,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450327\/revisions\/2450358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}