{"id":2814,"date":"2008-04-14T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/niagara-falls-heritage-designation-is-almost-done-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:01:52","slug":"niagara-falls-heritage-designation-is-almost-done-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/niagara-falls-heritage-designation-is-almost-done-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"NIAGARA FALLS: Heritage designation is almost done deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1372\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature is all that stands between Niagara Falls and its designation as a National Heritage Area, a federal program that would give the National Park Service a stake in local infrastructure and development.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed the U.S. Senate Thursday as part of the Energy Lands Act. It makes the area \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; which extends from the Falls to Youngstown \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; available for an annual $1 million per year for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today, Niagara Falls has taken a giant step closer towards receiving the resources and attention it needs to maintain its position as one of the natural wonders of the world,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, said in a release. He later added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This legislation will take great strides in balancing the inequity (between the Canadian and American sides of the Falls).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature is all that stands between Niagara Falls and its designation as a National Heritage Area, a federal program that would give the National Park Service a stake in local infrastructure and development. The bill passed the U.S. Senate Thursday as part of the Energy Lands Act. It makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","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=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}