{"id":17922,"date":"2013-05-01T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17922"},"modified":"2013-05-01T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:29:43","slug":"new-courthouse-griggs-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17922","title":{"rendered":"New Courthouse, Griggs County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GriggsCH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17936\" title=\"GriggsCH\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GriggsCH-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GriggsCH-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GriggsCH-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/GriggsCH.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>COOPERSTOWN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The Griggs County Commission has decided to build a new courthouse, despite voters rejecting the idea three times in a span of 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners say they don&#8217;t need voter approval if they can build a new courthouse without raising taxes. They hope to begin construction of the $3 million building in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Keith Monson says the courthouse is 130 years old and the oldest active courthouse in North Dakota. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n<p>Some county residents say their voices aren&#8217;t being heard. John Wakefield says elected officials have trampled on election results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COOPERSTOWN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The Griggs County Commission has decided to build a new courthouse, despite voters rejecting the idea three times in a span of 14 months. Commissioners say they don&#8217;t need voter approval if they can build a new courthouse without raising taxes. They hope to begin construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17938,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions\/17938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}