{"id":996,"date":"2008-10-09T08:08:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/sward-thomasson-vision\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T15:26:09","slug":"sward-thomasson-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/sward-thomasson-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Sward &#038; Thomasson vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The BOCC needs to recruit small business in the county, veteran-based businesses, and an agricultural-based local farmers&#8217; market. We need to seek grant money from the State of Colorado for developing cellulosic ethanol from indigenous switchgrasses and set up small distillation coop facilities. We need to utilize the dry and windy eastern half of the county to bring in the production of clean electricity via wind and solar technologies. We also need to develop our historical sites within the county, and sponsor a vibrant day tourism industry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From:<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sward-thomasson-flyer.pdf\" title=\"What Patty Sward &amp; Robert Thomasson Will Do To Fix It\">What Patty Sward &amp; Robert Thomasson Will Do To Fix It<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>A farmer&#8217;s market where there are no truck farms.\u00a0 State subsidies and state coops.\u00a0 Power technologies that require state subsidies to be economic.\u00a0 A handful of local historic sites.\u00a0 A vibrant day tourism industry to attract the tourist segment that likes to watch switchgrass grow when they&#8217;re not skiing in the mountains.\u00a0 Maybe we can find some descendants of indigenous Americans to claim some land for a casino. Look out Central City, we&#8217;re going to need some of your tour buses.<\/p>\n<p>Come on people!!!\u00a0 This stuff is beyond pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The BOCC needs to recruit small business in the county, veteran-based businesses, and an agricultural-based local farmers&#8217; market. We need to seek grant money from the State of Colorado for developing cellulosic ethanol from indigenous switchgrasses and set up small distillation coop facilities. We need to utilize the dry and windy eastern half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bocc","7":"category-economics","8":"category-politics","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}