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Mark Wilson's self portrait
(10/30/08) During Tuesday's Morning Edition we heard editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters talk about the campaign season. Here in the North Country, we have our own resident editorial cartoonist. Mark Wilson, of Saranac Lake, started drawing political cartoons while in college during the 1980 presidential campaign season. His cartoons appear in newspapers regularly across the region and on our website. Todd Moe spoke with him about satirizing politicians, policies and the long presidential campaign season.
Eliot Spitzer and running mate David Paterson at Democratic Convention. Sketch: Mark Wilson
(05/31/06) Eliot Spitzer has a commanding lead as the campaigns begin in earnest, and many analysts predict a Democratic sweep of all the major statewide races this fall. Mark Wilson is a political cartoonist covering the party conventions for NCPR this week. Martha Foley spoke with him early this morning. He said there is a real - if unfamiliar -- sense of impending success among the Democrats in Buffalo.
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Blacksmith David Woodward sets in place the final piece of the weather vane he made for the Adirondack Carousel in Saranac Lake, which opens Saturday at 1 pm with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo: Mark Kurtz.
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