{"id":33854,"date":"2018-11-27T22:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33854"},"modified":"2018-11-27T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:38:29","slug":"a-new-courts-building-on-the-horizon-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33854","title":{"rendered":"A new Courts Building on the horizon? Maybe?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33855\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1200px-Potter_County_District_Courts_Building_-_Amarillo_Texas_USA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potter County (Texas) Judge Nancy Tanner is a woman of her word.<\/p>\n<p>She told me a couple of years ago that she intended eventually to move toward the possible construction of a new Criminal Courts Building to replace the monstrosity across the street from the old courthouse in downtown Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the initiative is taking a baby step toward that direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/news\/20181127\/funds-earmarked-for-courts-building-design\">The Commissioners Court has approved<\/a> a $45,000 measure to come up with a conceptual design for a new court building.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner wants to take the county&#8217;s move forward one step at a time. It recently completed the relocation of the sheriff&#8217;s office, vacating a long-standing structure downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Next up? It might be the Courts Building.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be too harsh, but that structure is a piece of crap. I haven&#8217;t seen it in quite some time, but the last time I walked inside, I was struck by the damage to the front of the building. It is terribly crafted. The workmanship on it is abominable.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I see that building I think of how Tanner&#8217;s predecessor as county judge, Arthur Ware, has described it.<\/p>\n<p>Ware calls it &#8220;The Grain Elevator.&#8221; He hates the Courts Building, which was erected about a decade before Ware took office as county judge.<\/p>\n<p>I concur with the old Marine.<\/p>\n<p>The county needs to vacate the Grain Elevator.<\/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>Potter County (Texas) Judge Nancy Tanner is a woman of her word. She told me a couple of years ago that she intended eventually to move toward the possible construction of a new Criminal Courts Building to replace the monstrosity across the street from the old courthouse in downtown Amarillo. It appears that the initiative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new Courts Building on the horizon? Maybe?<\/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":[475,1436,3179,3677,3681,3682],"class_list":["post-33854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-ware","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-nancy-tanner","tag-potter-county","tag-potter-county-commissioners-court","tag-potter-county-courthouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854","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=33854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33856,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions\/33856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}