{"id":53444,"date":"2019-09-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-new-jacc-isnt-worth-it\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:00:00","slug":"opinion-new-jacc-isnt-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-new-jacc-isnt-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: New JACC isn&#8217;t worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we are being asked to support building a huge expensive complex that we cannot afford and do not need. I read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-an-immodest-proposal-why-im-voting-no-on-proposition-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Turn by Paulette Simpson<\/a> a few days ago and was very impressed with her figures and sound reasoning on why this building is not needed. She did her homework well, and I agree we should step back and rethink what type of building we need, if any. Somehow I cannot picture thousands of people flying here from Hoonah, Angoon, Haines and Skagway to attend a performance or book convention.<\/p>\n<p>You the taxpayer will be asked to subsidize this monster forever more. It will cost thousands of dollars a month to heat, light, staff and maintain a building this size. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/new-downtown-arts-campus-could-break-ground-by-june-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Sealaska Heritage Institute plans on building a large arts campus<\/a> in the downtown area. Why would we want to compete against that? With a $5.6 million federal grant, it will be great for the Juneau economy, and I support it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dick L. Dau,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><ins>\u2022 My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/ins><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&rsquo;ll be asked to subsidize this monster forever more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":53445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53444"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}