{"id":231884,"date":"2026-06-30T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231884\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:15:20","slug":"city-council-hears-first-and-second-reading-on-prepared-food-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231884\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council hears first and second reading on prepared food tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Magnolia had two readings of ordinances last week that would allow residents to vote on a 2% sales tax on prepared food at the November election.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinances were proposed by the Magnolia Advertising and Promotion Commission to help increase the quality of life in Magnolia and to add a community center with an aquatic center.<\/p>\n<p>       <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.magnoliabannernews.com\/subscription\/magnolia-banner-news\/bn-30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" id=\"aspect\" class=\"bee-center bee-autowidth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782832520_869_original.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    Comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Magnolia had two readings of ordinances last week that would allow residents to vote on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-231884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}