{"id":1897,"date":"2017-04-19T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2017-04-19T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T02:30:23","slug":"liquor-commission-denies-licenses-for-whiteclay-beer-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/19\/liquor-commission-denies-licenses-for-whiteclay-beer-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquor Commission denies licenses for Whiteclay beer sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frank LaMere finally got the decision he\u2019s been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p>For two decades, he\u2019s called for an end to alcohol sales in Whiteclay, Nebraska, due to the dreadful consequences.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a state liquor board voted 3-0 to end the long-controversial beer sales in Whiteclay, an unincorporated village known as the \u201cSkid Row of the Plains\u201d that sells millions of cans of beer each year to residents of the officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think today that the Oglala Lakota people won. I think Nebraskans won. We\u2019ll be better for it in this state,\u201d said LaMere, a Native American activist from South Sioux City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/nebraska\/nebraska-liquor-control-commission-votes-to-deny-licenses-for-whiteclay\/article_a9e8f14e-247f-11e7-9c5f-5701953e3911.html#utm_source=omaha.com&amp;utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter%2Fbreakingheadlines%2F&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=read%20more\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha World-Herald: Frank LaMere finally got the decision he\u2019s been waiting for. For two decades, he\u2019s called for an end to alcohol sales in Whiteclay, Nebraska, due to the dreadful consequences. On Wednesday, a state liquor board voted 3-0 to end the long-controversial beer sales in Whiteclay, an unincorporated village known as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/19\/liquor-commission-denies-licenses-for-whiteclay-beer-sellers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liquor Commission denies licenses for Whiteclay beer sellers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,17,8,11,16,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}