{"id":1577,"date":"2009-10-06T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/06\/the-best-in-a-solid-field-correct"},"modified":"2009-10-06T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:56:00","slug":"the-best-in-a-solid-field-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"The best in a solid field, correct?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Canyon city commissioners have elevated Dale Davis to the post of police chief. It&#8217;s a good choice, given Davis&#8217; long history with the city, even pre-dating his nearly three decades as a Canyon police officer.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of five finalists for the job; the city received 31 applications for the chief&#8217;s job in total. City officials said Davis &#8212; a Canyon native &#8212; is the most qualified finalist by far for the job.<\/p>\n<p>I am not impugning the veracity of that view. But don&#8217;t Canyon residents deserve to know the names and backgrounds of the rest of the finalists? I would think so.<\/p>\n<p>But so far, all we know for certain is that city commissioners and City Manager Randy Criswell believe strongly in their choice for police chief.<\/p>\n<p>How about sharing the facts that back up your belief in that choice with your constituents?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canyon city commissioners have elevated Dale Davis to the post of police chief. It&#8217;s a good choice, given Davis&#8217; long history with the city, even pre-dating his nearly three decades as a Canyon police officer. He was one of five finalists for the job; the city received 31 applications for the chief&#8217;s job in total. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best in a solid field, correct?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}