{"id":2290,"date":"2007-11-16T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/new-border-id-plan-called-good-for-falls-economy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T12:12:12","slug":"new-border-id-plan-called-good-for-falls-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/new-border-id-plan-called-good-for-falls-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"New border ID plan called good for Falls economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1135\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News that the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security will accept a secure drivers&#8217; licence at land border crossings is being met with cautious optimism by at least one Niagara stakeholder who has long been in support of finding alternatives to passports for travellers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very good news for the tourism industry and for Niagara Falls,&#8221; said Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce president Carolyn Bones late Thursday night. &#8220;It&#8217;s long, long overdue. It&#8217;s something a number of people have been pushing for for a number of years, including the Chamber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the government will implement a rule in 2008 making high-tech drivers&#8217; licences bearing a person&#8217;s country of birth and the so-called &#8220;passport lite&#8221; passcards with biometric information on them approved documents alongside the Nexus card and passports as acceptable documents at the Canada-U.S. border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: News that the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security will accept a secure drivers&#8217; licence at land border crossings is being met with cautious optimism by at least one Niagara stakeholder who has long been in support of finding alternatives to passports for travellers. &#8220;It is very good news for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/2290","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}