{"id":679102,"date":"2026-03-24T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:23:14","slug":"respect-rural-voices-keep-industrial-projects-where-they-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/679102\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect rural voices: Keep industrial projects where they belong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/stories\/letters-arizona-must-prepare-for-freight-system-its-economy-depends-on,670982?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">response to David Martin<\/a> of Phoenix regarding BNSF, I can\u2019t help but notice a troubling pattern: Many of the loudest voices supporting the industrialization of rural Arizona don\u2019t actually live here.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who call places like Wittmann home chose this life intentionally. We value open space, quiet nights, clean air and the freedom to raise our families and animals without the constant hum of industry surrounding us.<\/p>\n<p>Rural living isn\u2019t an accident. It\u2019s a choice rooted in preserving a way of life that is quickly disappearing. We ride horses at sunset, we know our neighbors and we enjoy a level of peace that simply cannot coexist with a massive intermodal hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 In response to David Martin of Phoenix regarding BNSF, I can\u2019t help but notice a troubling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":679103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,83645,285813,51186,77956,285811,51838,1589,285809,39863,67597,285812,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,285810],"class_list":["post-679102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-bnsf","tag-cartel-crime","tag-environmental-degradation","tag-increased-traffic","tag-industrial-noise","tag-light-pollution","tag-phoenix","tag-rural-arizona","tag-rural-infrastructure","tag-rural-living","tag-transient-populations","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wittmann"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116286023797349042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}