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<title>NCPR Daily News: 05/22/2013</title>
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<title>What the Mohawk casino deal means for the North Country</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mohawk tribal chiefs joined Governor Cuomo in Albany yesterday to announce a new deal on casino exclusivity.They signed off on settling a long-running dispute over revenues from the Mohawks' Akwesasne Casino near Massena. In return, the Mohawks will get exclusive gaming rights in the 8-county North Country region.David Sommerstein joined Martha Foley to sort out what the deal means for the North Country and the Mohawk land claim.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Voters slap down four school budgets that bust prop tax cap</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Voters in the North Country sent a clear message to school districts that tried to exceed the state property tax cap.  The answer was a resounding No.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:16:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Silver moves on from Lopez controversy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One day after the state's powerful Assembly Speaker admitted &quot;glaring failures&quot; in his handling of a sexual abuse case, the Albany establishment seemed to be moving on, with the usual round of press conferences, bill passage, and leaders meetings.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Fighting fire blight in NY&apos;s apple orchards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Agriculture is one of the most dynamic and innovative economic sectors in New York state.  All this week, the Innovation Trail team is reporting on some of the current challenges and opportunities facing upstate farmers. In this story: New York's the second biggest apple producing state in the country. But, last year production dropped dramatically due to a warmer winter, early blooms, and harsh spring frosts. But weather isn't the only challenge growers are contending with]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Wednesday&apos;s news briefs from the Associated Press</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mohawks' will keep casino exclusivity, but will pay New York State $30 million. The emerald ash borer expands to 15 counties across upstate New York. New York State's new data transparency website now has information to help people find local farmers' markets, wineries, breweries, and distilleries. More than 3,000 Ontario Hydro customers spend the night without power after last night's storm.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>How a canoe sparked a trek and a book</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Almost twenty years ago, Christine Jerome and her husband paddled a weeks-long canoe route through the Adirondacks.  They followed the path of a nineteenth-century writer and outdoorsman, George Washington Sears, known as Nessmuk to his readers.  Our book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, spoke to Chris about the new edition of her book An Adirondack Passage, the Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:59 -0400</pubDate>
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