{"id":19001,"date":"2017-02-20T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19001"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:06:56","slug":"cuomo-talks-toppling-taxes-defends-thruway-signs-tourism-in-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/20\/cuomo-talks-toppling-taxes-defends-thruway-signs-tourism-in-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Talks Toppling Taxes, Defends Thruway Signs, Tourism in Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/politics\/2017\/02\/16\/cuomo-williamsville-buffalo-goat-island-niagara-falls-thruway-signs-erie-county-democratic-committee.html\">Time Warner Cable News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Cuomo says he won&#8217;t stop his call for development on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, despite a petition calling for the park to remain focused on nature and having funds instead go toward other parts of the city. Cuomo says the state is still pushing forward with a request for proposals for projects that could help boost tourism there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The engine, the economic engine is tourism. That is the fundamental engine that we are reving up. We&#8217;re building hotels, we need to get people to come to Niagara Falls to fill those hotel rooms. The question is what do we do, what&#8217;s the activity, what&#8217;s the attraction? And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re putting out an RFP for, which will include Goat Island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo says funds are still going into the city for other projects, but activities on Goat Island is the priority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Time Warner Cable News: &#8230;Cuomo says he won&#8217;t stop his call for development on Goat Island in Niagara Falls, despite a petition calling for the park to remain focused on nature and having funds instead go toward other parts of the city. Cuomo says the state is still pushing forward with a request for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,54,2],"tags":[5823,661,2777,651,41,4062,11838,9873,418,9810],"class_list":["post-19001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-development","tag-funds","tag-goat-island","tag-niagara-falls","tag-rfp","tag-time-warner-cable","tag-time-warner-cable-news","tag-tourism","tag-twc-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19002,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19001\/revisions\/19002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}