{"id":764603,"date":"2026-04-30T22:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:59:18","slug":"phoenix-can-show-compassion-without-sacrificing-safe-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764603\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix can show compassion without sacrificing safe parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 On Wednesday, May 6, Phoenix City Council will vote on the amended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenix.gov\/content\/dam\/phoenix\/parkssite\/documents\/safemedicaltreatment\/3.27.26%20Medical%20Treatment%20and%20Food%20Distribution%20in%20Parks%20Ordinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Safe Medical Care and Food Distribution Ordinance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will not support policies that introduce needles into our parks or allow certain types of large-scale food distribution that take away from the safe, family-centered spaces our parks are meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>Our parks are more than open spaces. They are where our children play, where families gather and where our community comes together. I have heard from many of you, especially our neighborhood leaders, who have worked tirelessly to clean up, invest in and reclaim these spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 On Wednesday, May 6, Phoenix City Council will vote on the amended Safe Medical Care and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,245,29126,237490,21678,313997,313996,313995,313998,5312,1589,78288,313994,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-764603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-children","tag-compassion","tag-dignity","tag-equity","tag-family-centered","tag-large-scale-food-distribution","tag-needles","tag-neighborhood-leaders","tag-parks","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-city-council","tag-safe-medical-care-and-food-distribution-ordinance","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764603","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=764603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}