{"id":1197,"date":"2006-06-20T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/sure_it_may_seem_insignificant_to_some.html"},"modified":"2006-06-20T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:47:52","slug":"sure_it_may_see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/sure_it_may_see.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure, It May Seem Insignificant To Some . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Legislature finally has fixed one of the last really lame blue laws &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/20\/nyregion\/20albany.html?ex=1308456000&#038;en=cb42b294ec50dfba&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Sunday morning liquor sales<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The State Legislature opened the final week of its regular session by agreeing to toughen drunken-driving laws. But lawmakers also agreed to allow beer sales earlier on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Those two agreements came on a day in which the Legislature failed to resolve the largest issues that divide lawmakers, or their disagreements with Gov. George E. Pataki, including restoring several hundred million dollars&#8217; worth of budget cuts to hospitals and nursing homes, the structure of a new office to fight Medicaid fraud, and the Legislature&#8217;s billion-dollar-a-year property tax rebate. In fact, the Republican-led Senate and the Democrat-led Assembly seem unable even to agree on what day to end the session, Thursday or Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they focused on some of the less contentious bills on their agenda, reaching agreement on a requirement that child safety alarms be installed in pools and on the measure that would allow beer sales starting at 8 a.m. instead of noon on Sundays, ending one of the last vestiges of the so-called blue laws that limit alcohol sales on Sundays.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Legislature finally has fixed one of the last really lame blue laws &#8212; Sunday morning liquor sales: The State Legislature opened the final week of its regular session by agreeing to toughen drunken-driving laws. But lawmakers also agreed to allow beer sales earlier on Sunday mornings. Those two agreements came on a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}