{"id":10584,"date":"2019-01-08T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:48:37","slug":"a-transportation-commission-meeting-with-a-notable-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-transportation-commission-meeting-with-a-notable-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Transportation Commission meeting with a notable absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Transportation Commission is having its first meeting of the year today in Ames. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2019\/01\/iowa-transportation-commission-to-meet-in-ames-jan-8.html\">The agenda is the most pedestrian possible.<\/a> (Where&#8217;s the transfer of jurisdiction of those weird stubs still under state control?)<\/p>\n<p>But off camera, so to speak, is the difference. William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Petroski, the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>&#8216;s transportation reporter (and corrections, and gambling, and more recently Iowa Senate) since before I started to read the paper, is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mocux.thestarpress.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/from-the-editor\/2019\/01\/02\/retiring-des-moines-register-staffers-naughton-white-kilen-marturello-petroski-bolten-johnson-iowa\/2448808002\/\">most recent batch of employees<\/a> (and all former co-workers of mine) <a href=\"https:\/\/mocux.thestarpress.com\/story\/news\/local\/columnists\/daniel-finney\/2018\/12\/31\/des-moines-register-iowa-journalism-sports-ethics-newspapers-retirements-retirees\/2420039002\/\">to take buyouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Because Gannett&#8217;s websites are intertwined, the links come via the <em>Star-Press<\/em>\u00a0in Muncie IN, not to be confused with the <em>Star Press Union<\/em>, which is a mashup of the <em>Belle Plaine Union<\/em> and <em>South Benton Star Press<\/em> that Gannett also owns.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Transportation Commission is having its first meeting of the year today in Ames. The agenda is the most pedestrian possible. (Where&#8217;s the transfer of jurisdiction of those weird stubs still under state control?) But off camera, so to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-transportation-commission-meeting-with-a-notable-absence\/\">Continue reading <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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10587,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}