{"id":33451,"date":"2014-11-05T08:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=33451"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:43:31","slug":"firefighters-win-assessment-but-throws-lehigh-acres-future-out-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/11\/firefighters-win-assessment-but-throws-lehigh-acres-future-out-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters Win Assessment but Throws Lehigh Acres Future Out The Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial by Robert Anderson Publisher<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33452\" title=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"169\" \/>Firefighter may have saved their jobs but now has hurt the economy of Lehigh Acres with the largest tax increase this community has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment was but on the back of the poor and medium classes of Lehigh Acres with lies and mistruths from the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Board itself is facing multitude of election law violations. And even one local business maybe facing criminal misdemeanor petty theft charges for their activities during Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres has not recovered from the real estate bubble crash.<\/p>\n<p>With this tax assessment it also harms small and medium business and makes hard to attract other business or investment into a community that it needs badly.<\/p>\n<p>I have a little harming for the people, Chief Wayne has stated for the record he will lay off 46 men on April 1, 2015 and will not be able the hire them back into Dec 2015 that\u2019s eight months of limited services from your fire department is that what you voted for? What\u2019s your Life Worth Now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: The views\u00a0expressed by Robert Anderson as Publisher do not necessarily reflect those held by the staff of the\u00a0<em>Lehigh Acres Gazette.<\/em>\u00a0The\u00a0<em>Gazette<\/em>\u00a0provides a venue for people to express their opinions concerning any subject matter and presents this as \u201copinion,\u201d not news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial by Robert Anderson Publisher Firefighter may have saved their jobs but now has hurt the economy of Lehigh Acres with the largest tax increase this community has ever seen.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}