{"id":18094,"date":"2016-04-13T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2016-04-13T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:00:43","slug":"quote-of-the-day-728","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-728\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Indiana.png\" alt=\"Indiana\" width=\"253\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Indiana.png 253w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Indiana-150x117.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>\u201cThis casino project takes a significant piece of property off the tax rolls, and this is a problem for a county that has the dubious distinction of having the highest percentage of tax-exempt properties in the whole state.\u00a0I think if you sign this agreement tonight, you\u2019re at risk of selling your soul, if not the heart of <strong>St. Joseph County<\/strong>, for two cents on the dollar and some shiny lollipops.\u201d &#8212; <em>casino opponent <strong>Kelly Havens<\/strong>, speaking against a\u00a0<strong>Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/news\/local\/south-bend-council-approves-casino-deal\/article_af188ea4-004f-11e6-b5f9-cf98677cd204.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">gaming development<\/a> in <strong>South Bend<\/strong>. Land for the casino and tribal village still needs to be taken into trust by the federal government<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis casino project takes a significant piece of property off the tax rolls, and this is a problem for a county that has the dubious distinction of having the highest percentage of tax-exempt properties in the whole state.\u00a0I think if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-728\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,31,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18095,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}