{"id":70215,"date":"2015-04-16T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70215"},"modified":"2015-04-16T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:25:41","slug":"legislature-mulling-welk-home-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70215","title":{"rendered":"Legislature mulling Welk home funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21956\" alt=\"welkhome2small\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature is at odds over how to pay for maintenance and other costs at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature two years ago included $100,000 in the State Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase of the home in Strasburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senators now want an appropriation of $135,000 over the next two years for maintenance and to pay part-time staff.\u00a0 North Dakota&#8217;s House voted against the funding.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 House Appropriations Chairman Jeff Delzer says the money must come from within the Historical Society&#8217;s budget.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sen. Robert Erbele&#8217;s district includes Strasburg. Erbele says it makes no sense for the state to buy the home and not spend money to maintain and operate it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A House-Senate conference committee is working to find a compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature is at odds over how to pay for maintenance and other costs at the boyhood home of famous band leader Lawrence Welk. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature two years ago included $100,000 in the State Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase of the home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70215","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\/70215","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=70215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70219,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70215\/revisions\/70219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}