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<title>NCPR Daily News: 05/16/2012</title>
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<title>All Before Five: 5/16/12</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New York voters overwhelmingly approved school district budgets yesterday—but many are concerned about what cuts in education spending are doing to our schools. And, in our traditional work series, a guitar builder who uses old methods to make some unique and modern instruments.]]></description>
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<title>Voters say yes to most school budgets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was school budget day in New York State yesterday. Voters from one side of the state to the other had their say on their local district's spending plan for the coming year.It was a tough year for the schools, with a continuing loss of state education aid, and a new state-imposed limit on property taxes used to fund many of the programs and positions local communities value. The vast majority of budgets passed in the North Country; most including significant cuts in teachers and programs.  Martha Foley talked with Brian Mann for a survey of the regional results.]]></description>
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<title>BOCES plans Franklin County cuts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[People across the North Country gave wide approval yesterday to budgets for their local school districts. It's been a difficult year for many school administrators because, for the first time, they've had to craft budgets that stay within the state's cap on increases in the local property taxes that help fund the districts.Some have had to resort to cutting programs or staff. One budget for the next school year that wasn't put to a vote yesterday will result in more than 40 layoffs of teachers and teaching assistants in BOCES programs in northern Franklin County. Chris Knight reports.]]></description>
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<title>Assembly, Senate leaders seek moral high ground on minimum wage </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Democrats in the State Assembly approved a bill Tuesday to increase the state’s minimum wage. The Republican leader of the State Senate offered a spirited defense of his position opposing the measure, but did not rule the issue out altogether. In Albany, Karen DeWitt has the story.]]></description>
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<title>Guitar maker Tracy Cox embraces traditional techniques to make modern instruments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While reporting on traditional work the last couple of weeks, we learned about a North Country craftsman who builds stringed instruments and applies inlay to them in a way that is the same as it has been done for generations.  It wasn’t long before Joel Hurd, a guitar enthusiast himself, was on his way to Parishville to meet Tracy Cox.]]></description>
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<title>Into the woods for morel mania</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Those who love edible wild mushrooms, cousins of the grocery store variety, also enjoy the annual spring hunt for one of the most elusive — the morel. May is morel month in the North Country.Todd Moe joined an outing of mushroom collectors at Paul Smiths College last spring. The group held a friendly contest to see who could find and pick the largest quantity of morels. By the end of the hunt it was clear you don't have to have to go out looking for morels with a meal in mind. Just learning to identify each mycological species is a challenge.A reminder about looking for edible mushrooms: even distinctive yellow morels have look-a-likes that are poisonous. The slightest doubt about a mushroom is warning enough not to eat it.]]></description>
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