{"id":270,"date":"2004-04-07T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"inglewood-rejects-wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/inglewood-rejects-wal-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"Inglewood Rejects Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go Inglewood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-walmart7apr07,1,4983110.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Voters in Inglewood Turn Away Wal-Mart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bid by the world&#8217;s largest corporation to bypass uncooperative elected officials and take its aggressive expansion plans to voters failed Tuesday, as Inglewood residents overwhelmingly rejected Wal-Mart&#8217;s proposal to build a colossal retail and grocery center without an environmental review or public hearings. <\/p>\n<p>With all votes counted Tuesday evening, 4,575 Inglewood residents had voted in favor of Wal-Mart&#8217;s plan, while 7,049 had voted against it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are a lot of winners here: grocery workers, city planners, elected officials, local residents, small businesses and poker players. Really? Poker players? Yeah. They would have dumped their supercenter right in HPark&#8217;s parking lot. Not cool.<\/p>\n<p>This measure failed, but it&#8217;s yet another example of why direct democracy is a bad idea. We need to do something about this whole initiative thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Inglewood. Voters in Inglewood Turn Away Wal-Mart A bid by the world&#8217;s largest corporation to bypass uncooperative elected officials and take its aggressive expansion plans to voters failed Tuesday, as Inglewood residents overwhelmingly rejected Wal-Mart&#8217;s proposal to build a colossal retail and grocery center without an environmental review or public hearings. With all votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}