{"id":211287,"date":"2020-10-28T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211287"},"modified":"2020-10-28T07:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:42:59","slug":"bismarck-adopts-face-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211287","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck adopts face mask mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (Prairie Public Radio) \u00a0Bismarck has become the latest North Dakota city to adopt a mask mandate, to help slow the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Prairie Public Radio, heard on CSi Cable 77 reported, that the vote was 3 to 2.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate does not have any penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Nancy Guy said she proposed the mandate, because she fears if Bismarck and Burleigh County don\u2019t reduce the positivity rate, businesses and schools could again face shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Guy was joined by Commissioners Greg Zenker and Steve Marquart in voting yes.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Mark Splonskowsi was a \u201cno\u201d vote.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Steve Bakken was the other no vote. He said he still believes in personal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>About a half-dozen other cities in North Dakota have adopted a mask mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (Prairie Public Radio) \u00a0Bismarck has become the latest North Dakota city to adopt a mask mandate, to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Prairie Public Radio, heard on CSi Cable 77 reported, that the vote was 3 to 2. The mandate does not have any penalties. Commissioner Nancy Guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211289,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211287\/revisions\/211289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}