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Their country isn't an easy place for anyone to make a living, but it's a downright hostile environment for those with disabilities. Support has mostly come from nonprofits, but activists are pressing the government to take action.
The iconic Industrial Trust Tower in downtown Providence is empty for the first time in 85 years. Developers want to turn it into luxury apartments — and want the state and city to pay for it. But Providence — like the rest of Rhode...
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as...
The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups...
The deal for the blogging site is designed to attract younger users to the ailing Web portal. The Wall Street Journal is basing its report on unnamed sources close to the situation.
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The Essex Chain of Lakes. Photo: Carl Heilman II, courtesy Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy via Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Essex Lakes could be opened to limited motorized access
Feb 04, 2013 — New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed opening up large portions of the 69,000 acres of former Finch, Pruyn and Co. timberlands the state is acquiring from The Nature Conservancy for public recreation.
Among other things, DEC's classification plan would allow motor vehicle and limited floatplane access to the Essex Chain of Lakes tract, which would become a new canoe area.
The plan is drawing praise from local government leaders who've fought for access to the former Finch lands, and criticism from environmentalists who want more the property protected as wilderness. Go to full article
Among other things, DEC's classification plan would allow motor vehicle and limited floatplane access to the Essex Chain of Lakes tract, which would become a new canoe area.
The plan is drawing praise from local government leaders who've fought for access to the former Finch lands, and criticism from environmentalists who want more the property protected as wilderness. Go to full article
Russell: Change in school aid formula would help poorer districts
Watertown, NY, Feb 04, 2013 — Democratic Assemblywoman Addie Russell, of Theresa, thinks the current state school aid formula is broken. She says it benefits wealthier districts at the expense of poorer ones, and that legislation she's introduced would make the formula more equitable. Go to full article
Lake Placid pilot rescues dogs from the air
Lake Placid, NY, Feb 04, 2013 — A dog is a man's best friend, as the saying goes, and a Lake Placid pilot is doing his best to return the favor.
When he's not working on his patients' teeth at High Peaks Dental in Lake Placid, 48-year-old D.J. O'Neill takes to the skies in his single-propeller airplane - a red and white Cessna 185 Skywagon I, to be exact - to rescue dogs from animal shelters in other parts of the U.S. Go to full article
When he's not working on his patients' teeth at High Peaks Dental in Lake Placid, 48-year-old D.J. O'Neill takes to the skies in his single-propeller airplane - a red and white Cessna 185 Skywagon I, to be exact - to rescue dogs from animal shelters in other parts of the U.S. Go to full article
Remington-dependent Ilion braces for impact of new gun laws
Feb 04, 2013 — When New York state passed a wave of new gun-control laws on Jan. 15, it outlawed a type of assault rifle made just over an hour's drive from the state capital--in Ilion, NY. Go to full article
Newest NY Senator says she'll fight for campaign finance reform
Albany, NY, Feb 04, 2013 — New York's newest Senator, Cecilia Tkaczyk, has been on the job for just over a week now, after a two and half month long court battle over absentee ballots resulted in a... Go to full article
Theatre Review: "Metamorphoses" at the NAC
Ottawa, ON, Feb 04, 2013 — "Metamorphoses" is running at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa through February 16. The play contains adult material and is not suitable for children under 16. Running... Go to full article
Monday's news briefs from the Associated Press
Feb 04, 2013 — NYS proposal seeks to buy storm-wrecked homes and preserve land as undeveloped coastline. Poll: NY voters split evenly on "fracking". "Fracking" will be a prominent issue at... Go to full article
Getting a jump on the flower season
Plattsburgh, NY, Feb 04, 2013 — Starting seeds indoors is a mid-winter routine that gives gardeners a nice taste of the coming season: potting mix on the fingers, the fragrance of moist soil. Mostly, the... Go to full article
Tips for entrepreneurs from a guy who's succeeded twice
Potsdam, NY, Feb 01, 2013 — Continuing our occasional series on the North Country's entrepreneurs is this... Go to full article
Court upholds Quebec rule for common law couples
Montreal, QC, Feb 01, 2013 — A third of all Quebec couples have "common law" partnerships - not marriages. A ruling last week in a case that's been making its way through the courts now confirms that if... Go to full article
Wild weather: Wind, lake effect snow, record high temps
Clintonville, NY, Feb 01, 2013 — After record-high temperatures and damaging winds in much of the region the past few days, winter is back. Fire departments and highway crews answered calls all day Thursday... Go to full article
