{"id":6449,"date":"2015-12-16T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/frustrated-residents-want-ban-in-place\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:20:29","slug":"frustrated-residents-want-ban-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/frustrated-residents-want-ban-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated residents want ban in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">In response to Dana Ralph (City Council) about banning fireworks in Kent, I\u2019m certain your letter only fueled the frustration of voters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Now we need to attend a workshop on Jan. 19 to support a ban?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">What\u2019s next, another study group or advisory vote? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">I understand the need to be thoughtful about new laws, but given the history of this problem (I am a 25-year resident) and all the prior commentary, I would think it would not be this difficult to draft a law. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Simply look at what all the other surrounding cities have done, and you have an easy blueprint.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">I truly wish I could say I trusted what the council would do with the overwhelming public desire to ban fireworks in Kent, but I strongly suspect they will drag their governmental feet yet again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">If you want to appease the frustrations of the voters, take action soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Greg Honeycutt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Dana Ralph (City Council) about banning fireworks in Kent, I\u2019m certain your letter only fueled the frustration of voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}