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Listener Comments to NCPRRecent In Box Blog commentsRecent Comments on NCPR News Stories(Click link above comment to find the original news story; make new comments at the original story location)Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:58:48 GMT I stop whenever i can to help turtles. Moving big snappers isnt that difficult. Ive personally seen people purposely run over turtles, when the turtles were on the shoulder. Its ridiculous the disrespect people have for wildlife. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:57:22 GMT I was disappointed that the article did not comment on the role of corporate economics. Not that corporations are good or bad but that they evolve to maximize profit without regard to the welfare of the producer or consumer. I'm not in favor of socialization or government control but something needs to happen to balance the corporate dynamic in the economy. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:05 GMT YEA FOR THE GOVERNOR!!!! Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:00:13 GMT hE CROSSED THE ROAD BECAUSE HE HAS THE RIGHT TO. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:27:05 GMT Good. Houses to be built and maintained to help support the Adirondack economy will hopefully replace prisons. And those second houses may well become first houses after their owners find out this place isn't just for vacations. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:23:57 GMT Very well organized story that covered the issue as it affects the farmers and consumers. Yes, consumers. They are paying too much for milk at the store. Farmers aren't getting paid enough. Dean Foods, a major dairy processor, announces an increase of profits while farmers income is halved. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:23:53 GMT as it stands replubican or democrat, isn't it obvious now that it doesn't matter anymore or never did from what I am seeing. we should try being human first and leave all the seperation behind because Washington doesn't care either way weather your rep or dem so wake up. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:37:53 GMT Really good job David. A Farm and Food Security Conference is being planed for August. The message must continue to stabilize milk prices on the farm level. Apex pricing is when the consumer price remains stable and manufactures margins balloon at the misfortune of the farmer. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:19:00 GMT What you have stated has to be one of the most ignorant, and feeble comments I have ever read. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:51:57 GMT "Why did the turtle cross the road?" Maybe it had to lay it's egg's If it was your cat or dog you would give a damn. So lets help the frogs and the turtle's out a little. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:22:24 GMT Hey, it's not the turtle's fault that man stuck a road in the middle of its natural habitat. I think it's a great idea to remind people to watch out for these beautiful creatures! Turtles are meant to live a long life, but we'll see that quickly end if we keep squashing them with our vehicles. There are alot worse things that Government is spending our dollars on than a few road signs! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:18:02 GMT It sounds like you enjoyed the shows. I've added your review to this brand new website I've created. It aggregates all the reviews from the festival. http://stratfordfestivalreviews.com/ Keith Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:36:17 GMT I recently spotted one of those turtle signs.....just landed the fact home that not only this total waste of money (signs) is taking place, but the wastefulness taking place in gov't is even more sickening and depressing. Our country will never recover from such wasteful practices.........PLEASE get out and vote at the next election! Put 'common-sense' back our lives~ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:14:51 GMT TO SEE WHAT WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:46:16 GMT I agree,,,,,,,Farmers work long hard hours for nothing in return. Stop importing and use local produce,,meat and dairy products Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:20:18 GMT As I was listening to the Adirondack News Roundtable I was struck by the lack of interest demonstrated for Brian's comments about the expectations by Northcountry residents that people external to the area should pony up the funds to enable schools and employment opportunities for the locality. Brian brought the subject up more than once utilizing various approaches to no avail. I have also broached the subject with acquaintances and relatives in the past several years and the response by locals is virtually always the same, disbelief. I grew up in the Northcountry and left for employment in the early 60's returned to a job at Plattsburgh AFB in the late 70's left when the BRAC decided to close it in the late 80's came back in the early 2000's. As Brian pointed out the best jobs were/are government jobs which are not supported by local taxes. Though not discussed in this meeting the Alcoa electricity subsidy and the subsidies for the short haul airlines in the area have been previously covered by NCPR. The local consensus appears to be anything that produces local jobs is "good"; any thoughts or concerns that it may be unfair to expect outsiders to foot the bills for these jobs is "bad". Those themes were glaringly apparent during the news roundtable today. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:13:06 GMT i grew up on this rez and what this place has evolved into is embarassing.the drugs,the suicides,driveby shooting while sunday mass is being conducted,breakins,no body cares! the border guards should be armed look at the dangerous elements they have to contend with come on!john boots was saying how the border guards will have itchy trigger fingers it's ironic that he says that,iin 1990 his son stacey shot up that customs building with an AK47,they spent megs bucks to make that building bullit proof! if the border guards do not carry weapons how will they be able to defend themselves? by the way the island is also refered to as criminal island and the tent is none other than the BEER TENT for obviuos reasons! open the bridge let people pass! Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:40:19 GMT I'M DISGUSTED WITH MR. MCHUGH I CALLED HIS OFFICE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THEY WERE IN SESSION AND SPOKE WITH ONE OF HIS OFFICE STAFF MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON. I ASKED HER HOW HE WAS VOTING ON THIS BILL AND HER COMMENT WAS THAT I DON'T KNOW? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING HE'S IN SESSION AND YOU DON'T KNOW. SHE THEN ASKED IF I WANTED TO LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR HIM AND I DID, I SAID I HOPE HE VOTES NO FOR IT AND DOESN'T FEEL OBLIGATED TO VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA'S BILL TO PAY HIM BACK FOR HIS APPOINTMENT. AND SHE STATED HE DOESN'T AGREE WITH HIM ON MOST OF HIS ISSUES. I SAID GOOD NIGHT.THEN I HEARD ON MONDAY ON THE CONSERVATIVE RADIO STATIONS THAT HE VOTED YES FOR IT I WAS SICKENED!!! I CALLED HIS WASHINGTON OFFICE TODAY AGAIN AND TOLD HIS STAFF MEMBER I WAS TRULY DISAPPOINTED THAT HE HAS MOVED SO FAR TO THE LEFT AND TO THINK I VOTED FOR HIM ON THE CONSERVATIVE LINE LAST YEAR. IT'S TIME FOR HIM TO STAY IN WASHINGTON DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME COMING AROUND THIS JULY 4TH, YOUR AN INSULT TO THE REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY. PS LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN THAT IS DISENFRANSIED WITH THE WHOLE SYSTEM AND BECOMING AN AMERICAN FIRST WITH SOME COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!1 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:12:51 GMT I attempted to cross on Sunday and the bridge was closed. Can you please tell me the status and Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:18:20 GMT LETS START BY VOTEING OUT EVERY INCUMBENT WHEN THEY COME UP FOR ELECTION,THESE PEOPLE ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR EGOAND OWN AGENGAS THEN THEY ARE ABOUT WORKING FOR US ,THE PEOPLE THEY WERE ELECTED TO SERVE, GET RID OF THEM ALL!BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS!! Recent Comments from the In Box Blog(Click link above comment to read the original In Box post; make new comments at the original post location)
noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:14:30 +0000 BRFvolpe I consider myself an envirnmentalist but the apa and albany have a long history of completely ignoring the will of residents of the adirondacks and stifling job creation. The best thing that could happen for nny would be the reform or abolition of the apa. noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:08 +0000 I have to disagree with your claim that state government is extremely responsive to the public will. NY state government is extremely responsive to the will of legislative leaders and in particular shelly silver. He completely controls the agenda and essentially wrote the state budget. It's been a long time since NY state government was responsive to the will of the people and not just the agendas of the legislative leaders. Upstate residents in particular have no voice in state government. The APA being an infamous example of this. Compared to NY state legislature Congress has done a wonderful job. noreply@blogger.com (JohnB) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:42:31 +0000 So did you expect anything different? At least they have tried to move past blaming the victims and then the government and then policing and after that the lawyers and now in some places its the insurance people - why not have a different go at blaming women now that they are no longer able to blame the children. The options are narrowing but I still don't think they quite get it yet. Hopefully when they get through blaming all and everything else they will take a look at how they are going to fix things up even though that is something which keeps slipping below their radar. noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:58:35 +0000 I love this concept, George: Orthodox atheism. -Brian, Saranac Lake noreply@blogger.com (Mike) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:57:52 +0000 If the Catholic church is to survive it must evolve like the rest of human society. This week's NYTs Book Review cover story about "The Evolution of God" gives some insight to this topic. Mike from Lyons Falls noreply@blogger.com (George Nagle, Morehouse Lake) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:43 +0000 There is always a tension in relligious communities between innovators and traditionalists. Witness St. Paul's dressing down St. Peter. This Vatican inquiry is but one example. A well known sceptic recently provoked division within an organizaion of atheists which had asked him to speak. As he is a self described agnostic some of the atheists objected as he isn't of the true non-belief. noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:57:34 +0000 The article also contains a link to a paper that examines Reiki with respect to Catholic doctrine. Quite interesting. noreply@blogger.com (BRFvolpe) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:10:18 +0000 Good forum - refreshing to hear folks talking about Adirondack problems with a vision of how to work together toward solutions, instead of the usual griping about taxes and how the APA, DEC, and Albany are out to get us. noreply@blogger.com (Jim) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:11:58 +0000 Unfortunately in the next election the major parties will put up the same bunch of candidates and any candidates who offer real change will have no visibility or real chance of getting elected. noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:55:59 +0000 Murphy will be fine as long as he votes as he is told. McHugh voted as one would expect when trying to impress a soon-to-be boss. I am certain he was thinking forward to his confirmation hearing, wanting to look like he was playing for the right team. Doc in Gouverneur noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:52:11 +0000 You are spot-on with the comment that the mid-term elections will be a referendum on Pres. Obama agenda. My fear is that the administration will not come through on their campaign promises. Patience tends to be in short supply when times are tougher and the American people may not respond well if they feel that they have been duped. The Democrats need to take full advantage of their clear majority and ram as much of their legislation and projects through the system as quickly as possible. I have many concerns that this won't happen due to infighting within the party. It is encouraging that Speaker Pelosi is taking a hard line with the party defectors. Hopefully, she can bring them back into the fold and have them voting along party lines. The threats around support (or lack thereof) for upcoming elections should prove to work in her favor. This type of leadership allowed them to secure enough votes to puch the Cap and Tax bill through the House. With any luck, it will move quickly through the Senate. (The addition of the Minnesota comedian should help.) We need the same type of force to push through the healthcare legislation. Each and every American should be able to have health insurance. Anything less than 100% would be considered failure. An older gentleman related a story to me over the weekend. He described raising a family of six on a North Country farm. He explained that he always had health insurance for his family. He explained that he did so by sacrificing some of the things that most folks consider to be necessities today. He said, "I always made sure we had health insurance, but you never saw a new vehicle, four-wheeler or boat sitting in my backyard. I had my priorities straight." This type of attitude is rare these days and that is one of the reasons that we need government-run healthcare. Our government needs to protect people from themselves. Congress needs to push healthcare reform through as quickly as possible. They need to quit worrying about how to fund it. Those with the ablility to pay will fund the program. If they don't like it, then they can leave. It's time to be PATRIOTIC. I have been somewhat pleased with the movement to get our troops out of Iraq, while I do feel that it has been too long in coming and will not proceed fast enough. Now is the time to strike and strike hard to push the Prsident's agenda through. Don't listen to the whining about running up the score. Just shrug and say, "Too bad. We won." Hammond noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01:25 +0000 Sent my own version, but basically the same to Suzi Oppenheimer. UGH - this is ridiculous! noreply@blogger.com (Betty) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:22:29 +0000 Will fax to Joe Griffo's office. Beyond the pale! Legislative Office Building Rm 302 Albany, NY 12247 (518) 455-3334 Fax: 426-6921 noreply@blogger.com (Chris) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:19:58 +0000 Nice post, Brian... noreply@blogger.com (Pete Klein) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:29:15 +0000 For myself, I don't buy into Global warming but do believe we need to cut back on polution. Will it cost some? Sure. But it will cost less than the taxes I pay to smoke cigarettes. noreply@blogger.com (Pete Klein) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:23:52 +0000 If I remember but for the record, Pete Klein from Indian Lake, reporter for the Hamilton County Express and author of Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County, The Dancing Valkyrie and The Vampire Valkyrie. noreply@blogger.com (Pete Klein) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:20:19 +0000 Thanks for doing the hard work, Brian. I'll send my letter to Sen. Little noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:20 +0000 Brian -- great letter. I copied and printed mine, and sent it off straight away. Let me help your readers with a bit of contact information (assuming they mostly share my Senator): Senator Aubertine 317 Washington Street 4th Floor Watertown, NY 13601 315-782-6357 (fax) Email: aubertin@senate.state.ny.us It would take just one courageous senator to stand up, put politics aside, cross the aisle and provide the quorum needed to get the people's business done. That's the reality. The rest is just rhetoric. Get back to work, Senator Aubertine. -- Mitch from Carthage noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:31:39 +0000 http://northcountrynow.com/nc-this-week/story-of-day/full-story.asp?uid=2762&area=NCNow+News Thankfully, this is not another death. Just another casualty of the ATV's. noreply@blogger.com (David Sommerstein) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:56:02 +0000 I believe every commenter should have to give their NAME as well as where they're from. Posting strong opinions on controversial topics anonymously is cowardice. The viciousness of the comment threads about the closed bridge in Cornwall are disgraceful and not in keeping with NCPR's community ethic. I believe this wouldn't have happened without anonymous commenting. If someone has a compelling reason to be anonymous (such as threat of economic livelihood or bodily harm) s/he should e-mail one of us directly, explaining the situation and we can post the comment without the name once anonymity has been granted. These are the rules we use in our stories - why should comments be totally different? noreply@blogger.com (Mike) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:47:38 +0000 Boy! Everybody is going to know who I am if I include my town in my comment. Is it OK if I shift my location to the next little town next door? Mike, from Greig noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:47:36 +0000 It may provide a difference in how comments are viewed. Are you 'close" to the discussion or are you viewing from a "distance"? Writing from Hammond noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:15:04 +0000 Thanks Brian- We have seen a number of purple boxes hanging in the trees near Pierrepont, and now I know what they are for. Lisa noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:30 +0000 I think it was actually only 1 vote over the minimum needed to pass it, of 218. noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:21:38 +0000 It apppears Murphy is one of many responsible for the last minute, 3 AM changes rammed in that no one had a chance to read and likely bought his vote - http://www.poststar.com/blogs/?p=27014&cat=259 where he states: ?I had been battling with the authors of the bill about making sure that our paper mills were treated fairly. And we finally reached an agreement with that at the last minute,? This guy may be a newcomer, but is just as corrupt as the rest. Regardless of your views on the content, the manner in which this bill was railroaded through without proper vetting is irresponsible at best, and should outrage to all who strive for fair treatment of all viewpoints. Murphy's first term needs to be his last. |
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