{"id":37445,"date":"2019-06-12T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37445"},"modified":"2019-06-12T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:02:06","slug":"let-the-kids-lemonade-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37445","title":{"rendered":"Let the kids&#8217; lemonade flow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=lemonadestands%20%23GregAbbott%20%23TexasTribune&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lemonade20Stand20IS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37446\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lemonade20Stand20IS-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lemonade20Stand20IS-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lemonade20Stand20IS-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lemonade20Stand20IS.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has taken up the cudgel for the state&#8217;s budding entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott signed a bill that makes it illegal for cities and homeowners associations to force children to shut down their lemonade stands.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I have been tough on the governor and the Legislature for snatching local-control issues out of locals&#8217; hands. This one, though, makes me smile.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, authored the bill that prohibits the closure from cities and local neighborhood groups. Kids like to sell non-alcoholic drinks to raise money for all manner of causes: field trips, gifts for Mom and Dad, or just plain vacation money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/06\/10\/texas-greg-abbott-signs-bill-declaring-childrens-lemonade-stands-legal\/\">As the Texas Tribune reports<\/a>, support for the legislation grew after two East Texas siblings were forced in 2015 to shut down a lemonade stand they had set up to raise money for a Father&#8217;s Day gift.<\/p>\n<p><em>The injustice of it all!<\/em> I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya, those youngsters needed the strong arm of the state. Well, those who will come along to raise money for their own parents will have the protection of state law.<\/p>\n<p>The warning now has been sent to city halls and neighborhood association busy-bodies: Leave the kids alone! In fact, you need to buy a glass of the cool drink yourselves to help the up-and-coming business tycoons meet their financial goals.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=lemonadestands%20%23GregAbbott%20%23TexasTribune&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has taken up the cudgel for the state&#8217;s budding entrepreneurs. Abbott signed a bill that makes it illegal for cities and homeowners associations to force children to shut down their lemonade stands. Yes, I know I have been tough on the governor and the Legislature for snatching local-control issues out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the kids&#8217; lemonade flow!<\/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":[18],"tags":[2006,4653,4728],"class_list":["post-37445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445","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=37445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37447,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445\/revisions\/37447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}