{"id":241296,"date":"2013-02-21T02:42:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241296"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:13:22","slug":"workers-businesses-benefit-from-keystone-xl-pipeline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241296","title":{"rendered":"Workers, Businesses Benefit from Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=241128\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-241128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/thumb_Keystone-Pipeline-map2-150x118.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Keystone-Pipeline-map2\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-241128\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 It continues to generate its share of controversy. But KETK reports a lot of people are moving to East Texas to work on the Keystone XL Pipeline. That\u2019s giving our local economy a boost. After working all day, the laborers spend their hard-earned money in local restaurants. Dick\u2019s Cajun Bar and Grill in Mt. Selman is a favorite spot for the pipeline workers to hang out. Also, the area\u2019s drawing positive comments from the newcomers. Laura Grife is from Minnesota, but she\u2019s made East Texas her temporary home; she currently resides in Jacksonville. Grife says, \u201cI love Texas; this winter has been really nice. When you look at all the weather like where I\u2019m from, Minnesota, this has been like a summer.\u201d Another worker says the \u201cpeople are wonderful; Southern hospitality is awesome.\u201d Yet another is struck by the East Texas scenery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 It continues to generate its share of controversy. But KETK reports a lot of people are moving to East Texas to work on the Keystone XL Pipeline. That\u2019s giving our local economy a boost. After working all day, the laborers spend their hard-earned money in local restaurants. Dick\u2019s Cajun Bar and Grill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Workers, Businesses Benefit from Keystone XL Pipeline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 12:44:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241381,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296\/revisions\/241381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}