{"id":3016,"date":"2020-11-04T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawtondailynews.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2020-11-04T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:24:50","slug":"small-business-owners-buck-gretchen-whitmers-shutdown-we-dont-have-any-other-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enidpost.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/04\/small-business-owners-buck-gretchen-whitmers-shutdown-we-dont-have-any-other-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Small business owners buck Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s shutdown: &#8216;We don&#8217;t have any other option&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON, Okla. &#8211; For Amy Heikkinen, serving customers in her coffee shop is as much a fight for survival as an act of civil disobedience against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.<\/p>\n<p>Ms.\u00a0Heikkinen\u2018s Cafe Rosetta in Calumet remains open in violation of a Nov. 25 cease-and-desist order from the health department for breaking the governor\u2019s COVID-19 ban on indoor dining. By staying open, she\u2019s racking up fines at a rate of $1,000 per day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t [stay open], we aren\u2019t going to survive,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have any other option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The struggle of this tiny coffee shop on Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula mirrors the plight of restaurants and bars from New York to California where a coronavirus surge spurred governors and mayors to shut down businesses again, rippling more pain across the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic began, more than 110,000 or 17% of America\u2019s restaurants have closed permanently or long term, according to the National Restaurant Association.<\/p>\n<p>Congress made small-business help a major plank of emergency COVID relief bills, making more than $700 billion available in federal loans, but that money only went so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON, Okla. &#8211; For Amy Heikkinen, serving customers in her coffee shop is as much a fight for survival as an act of civil disobedience against Michigan Gov. 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