{"id":35189,"date":"2019-02-01T00:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35189"},"modified":"2019-02-01T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:20:31","slug":"go-for-it-potter-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35189","title":{"rendered":"Go for it, Potter County!"},"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\/2019\/02\/court-building.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35190\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/court-building-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/court-building-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/court-building-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/court-building.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Ware, the former Potter County judge, has a great name for the building shown here. He once told me he has referred to it as &#8220;The Grain Elevator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ware hates the building, which serves as the district courts structure for Potter County. Indeed, the structure erected in the early 1980s is a dog, a dump, a heap. The picture shown here doesn&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>Walk through the front door and you see poor workmanship. The interior of the structure is not nearly as functional as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, the Potter County Commissioners Court has voted 4-1 to authorize $54 million in certificates of obligation to build a new courts structure. Commissioner Mercy Murguia was the lone &#8220;no&#8221; vote; she doesn&#8217;t like the cost of the structure and the debt the county will incur by issuing COs.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a dog in that fight, but I do believe the county is correct to march forward toward erecting a new structure to house the district courts, the district clerk, the district attorney and the 7th Texas Court of Appeals. Sure, the county could have called for a bond issue election, but it might fail. County Judge Nancy Tanner believes the county is in dire straits with a building that is so poorly constructed.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Tanner has all but invited the public to walk through the building to see for itself why the county needs to replace <em>The Grain Elevator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I concur with Judge Tanner. Take a look. It&#8217;s a dump. The building needs to go.<\/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>Arthur Ware, the former Potter County judge, has a great name for the building shown here. He once told me he has referred to it as &#8220;The Grain Elevator.&#8221; Ware hates the building, which serves as the district courts structure for Potter County. Indeed, the structure erected in the early 1980s is a dog, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go for it, Potter County!<\/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":[9],"tags":[7890,475,3179,8345],"class_list":["post-35189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-7th-court-of-appeals","tag-arthur-ware","tag-nancy-tanner","tag-potter-county-courts-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189","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=35189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35191,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189\/revisions\/35191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}