{"id":1344,"date":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/24\/the-post-star-offers-local-government-some-advice-no-raises\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:34:00","slug":"the-post-star-offers-local-government-some-advice-no-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/24\/the-post-star-offers-local-government-some-advice-no-raises\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Star offers local government some advice: no raises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/article_9501f5bc-d8b2-11de-bdda-001cc4c002e0.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star frames the question<\/a> of local government boards giving themselves raises:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any politicians who propose pay raises for themselves while laying off workers and denying raises to others is simply just &#8230; what&#8217;s the word? &#8230; unbelievable.     <\/p>\n<p>Yet some members of the Glens Falls Common Council are tentatively  testing the waters for such a pay raise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The editorial does wrestle with a nagging concern for many local boards:  convincing people to work long hours in a controversial, often heated environment, for little pay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Raising a councilman&#8217;s $10,000 compensation by $300, as a 3 percent raise would do, isn&#8217;t going to get any better candidates. If you want a better class of candidates to consider running, you&#8217;d have to double that pay, not bump it up by a couple hundred dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?  Should local officials earn more?  Less?  Should symbolic issues like this matter to voters?  Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how the Glens Falls Post-Star frames the question of local government boards giving themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}