{"id":10793,"date":"2015-09-01T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:33:06","slug":"now-its-a-mountain-name-that-brings-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10793","title":{"rendered":"Now it’s a mountain name that brings criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You almost could have predicted this would happen.<\/p>\n

President Obama decided to rename Mount McKinley, which had been named in honor of a Republican president, William McKinley. The tallest peak in North America now is called Denali, which is a native Alaskan term.<\/p>\n

But here it comes: Ohio Republicans are angry at the mountain renaming. They think it’s a slight to a GOP president who, by the way, never set foot in Alaska, let alone climb the peak.<\/p>\n

Ohio GOP up in arms<\/a><\/p>\n

House Speaker John Boehner, who hails from Ohio, says the president shouldn’t have acted unilaterally. Other lawmakers from Ohio say they’ll try to block the name change legislatively.<\/p>\n

Oh yes. Then there’s Donald Trump, the GOP front runner for the party’s presidential nomination, who says if elected president he’ll undo Obama’s decision.<\/p>\n

Alaska’s Republicans, though, are in favor of the name change. The state’s senior U.S. senator, Lisa Murkowski, its House member, Don Young, and its junior senator, Dan Sullivan, vow to block any effort to reverse the decision.<\/p>\n

Alaska has been calling the peak Denali since 1975. The president’s action changes it in the federal registry of geographic names.<\/p>\n

Oh, but it’s now a slap in the face to a former president who happened to hail from Ohio and that it detracts from his legacy.<\/p>\n

Good grief. Can we call a halt to this partisan bickering over an issue that makes not a bit of difference, except perhaps to the native Alaskans who can recite the grand peak’s new name with their own sense of pride?<\/p>\n

What in the world is wrong with that?<\/p>\n\n

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You almost could have predicted this would happen. President Obama decided to rename Mount McKinley, which had been named in honor of a Republican president, William McKinley. The tallest peak in North America now is called Denali, which is a native Alaskan term. But here it comes: Ohio Republicans are angry at the mountain renaming. … Continue reading Now it’s a mountain name that brings criticism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5419,540,5416,2523,5417,5420,5418],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-alaska-range","tag-barack-obama","tag-denali","tag-john-boehner","tag-mount-mckinley","tag-ohio-gop","tag-william-mckinley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}