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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>Sen. Little faces changed political climate</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20861/20121109/sen-little-faces-changed-political-climate</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 9, 2012) State Senator Betty Little ran unopposed this week and will once again represent a big chunk of the North Country in the state legislature. But she returns to office in a changed political landscape.  Her district has changed, absorbing a new chunk of St. Lawrence County. Her Republican Party also took major hits this week, losing the North Country&apos;s House seat and possibly possibly losing its long-standing majority in the state Senate. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20861/20121109/sen-little-faces-changed-political-climate">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[State Senator Betty Little ran unopposed this week and will once again represent a big chunk of the North Country in the state legislature. But she returns to office in a changed political landscape.  Her district has changed, absorbing a new chunk of St. Lawrence County. Her Republican Party also took major hits this week, losing the North Country&apos;s House seat and possibly possibly losing its long-standing majority in the state Senate. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20861/20121109/sen-little-faces-changed-political-climate">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>03:18</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>politics, election12, [loc:43.3594444 -73.6569444], , photolead, little, queensbury, topstory,</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Judge to decide how inmates will shape North Country districts</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18541/20111006/judge-to-decide-how-inmates-will-shape-north-country-districts</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 6, 2011) Attorneys were in court this week in Albany, arguing a case that could dramatically reshape the way North Country legislative districts are redrawn. A new state law requires that inmates be counted in their home communities — the places they last lived before being sent to prison. But that would shift a lot of people back to downstate Democratic districts, stripping population from districts held by North Country lawmakers like Betty Little from Queensbury and Patty Ritchie from St. Lawrence County. Republicans are hoping to overturn the law and as Brian Mann reports, the case could be settled in the next two months. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18541/20111006/judge-to-decide-how-inmates-will-shape-north-country-districts">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Attorneys were in court this week in Albany, arguing a case that could dramatically reshape the way North Country legislative districts are redrawn. A new state law requires that inmates be counted in their home communities — the places they last lived before being sent to prison. But that would shift a lot of people back to downstate Democratic districts, stripping population from districts held by North Country lawmakers like Betty Little from Queensbury and Patty Ritchie from St. Lawrence County. Republicans are hoping to overturn the law and as Brian Mann reports, the case could be settled in the next two months. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18541/20111006/judge-to-decide-how-inmates-will-shape-north-country-districts">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:02</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, adirondacks, little, prisons, incarceration, election12, vote2012, redistricting, [loc:44.3000500 -74.0854312], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Profile:  Saranac Lake&apos;s Mayor Rabideau sparks with ideas and controversy</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17867/20110620/profile-saranac-lake-apos-s-mayor-rabideau-sparks-with-ideas-and-controversy</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 20, 2011) Clyde Rabideau has emerged as one of the North Country’s most enduring, colorful and sometimes controversial politicians. Rabideau was mayor of Plattsburgh for a decade in the 1990s and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1998.  Sixteen months ago, the Democrat was elected mayor of Saranac Lake, the largest community in the Adirondack Park. His latest adventure in politics has been marked by some big successes, including a public campaign to convince the Trudeau Institute to keep its laboratories in Saranac Lake.But he has also clashed publicly and fiercely with other leaders in the North Country and his brash style is sparking criticism.  Brian Mann sat down to talk in-depth with Rabideau and has our profile. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17867/20110620/profile-saranac-lake-apos-s-mayor-rabideau-sparks-with-ideas-and-controversy">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Clyde Rabideau has emerged as one of the North Country’s most enduring, colorful and sometimes controversial politicians. Rabideau was mayor of Plattsburgh for a decade in the 1990s and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1998.  Sixteen months ago, the Democrat was elected mayor of Saranac Lake, the largest community in the Adirondack Park. His latest adventure in politics has been marked by some big successes, including a public campaign to convince the Trudeau Institute to keep its laboratories in Saranac Lake.But he has also clashed publicly and fiercely with other leaders in the North Country and his brash style is sparking criticism.  Brian Mann sat down to talk in-depth with Rabideau and has our profile. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17867/20110620/profile-saranac-lake-apos-s-mayor-rabideau-sparks-with-ideas-and-controversy">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>08:50</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, adirondacks, cuomo, albany, rabideau, little, sayward, duprey, saranac lake village, saranac lake, [loc:44.3294960 -74.1312662], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Senators challenge inmate count</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17450/20110408/senators-challenge-inmate-count</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 8, 2011) The North Country State Senators are suing to block a new law for redistricting this year.  It would count prison inmates in the districts where their home residence is, not in the North Country town where they’re held.  David Sommerstein reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17450/20110408/senators-challenge-inmate-count">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The North Country State Senators are suing to block a new law for redistricting this year.  It would count prison inmates in the districts where their home residence is, not in the North Country town where they’re held.  David Sommerstein reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17450/20110408/senators-challenge-inmate-count">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>02:22</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, albany, redistricting, adirondacks, stlv, tijf, tghl, inmates, prisons, criminal justice, little, griffo, ritchie, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Cuomo says prisons can&apos;t be a jobs program</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16942/20110106/cuomo-says-prisons-can-apos-t-be-a-jobs-program</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 6, 2011) In his speech yesterday, Governor Cuomo fired a shot across the bow of the North Country’s prison industry.  For decades, correctional facilities have been used to shore up the region’s economy, providing thousands of high paying, dependable jobs.  Inmate populations have been dropping the last few years, in part because of reforms to the Rockefeller drug laws last year.  Those laws imposed long prison sentences even on low-level, non-violent offenders.As Brian Mann reports, the new governor says using prisons as an economic development tool is unaffordable and morally wrong. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16942/20110106/cuomo-says-prisons-can-apos-t-be-a-jobs-program">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In his speech yesterday, Governor Cuomo fired a shot across the bow of the North Country’s prison industry.  For decades, correctional facilities have been used to shore up the region’s economy, providing thousands of high paying, dependable jobs.  Inmate populations have been dropping the last few years, in part because of reforms to the Rockefeller drug laws last year.  Those laws imposed long prison sentences even on low-level, non-violent offenders.As Brian Mann reports, the new governor says using prisons as an economic development tool is unaffordable and morally wrong. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16942/20110106/cuomo-says-prisons-can-apos-t-be-a-jobs-program">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>06:17</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, adirondacks, politics, prisons, criminal justice, law, legal, incarceration, jobs, cuomo, little, [loc:44.0461100 -73.5055600], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Hornbeck&apos;s Park Agency bid blocked, likely dead</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16783/20101206/hornbeck-apos-s-park-agency-bid-blocked-likely-dead</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 6, 2010) For nearly twelve months, Adirondack businessman and environmentalist Peter Hornbeck has been waiting. Hornbeck is a boat builder in Omstedville, in Essex County.  Last year, Governor David Paterson appointed him to sit on the Adirondack Park Agency’s board of commissioners.But his track record as a conservationist sparked opposition from local government groups and from Republican state Senator Betty Little. Little convinced Democrats in the Senate to delay Hornbeck’s confirmation.  Once again last week, a key committee left his appointment on the shelf.Now Governor Paterson is leaving office and Republicans appear to have won a new majority in the Senate. After all those months, Hornbeck’s bid to sit on the APA board appears to have reached a dead end. On Friday, Hornbeck told Brian Mann that he’s been in a kind of political limbo, with little information about the process in Albany or what might happen next. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16783/20101206/hornbeck-apos-s-park-agency-bid-blocked-likely-dead">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Brian Mann</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For nearly twelve months, Adirondack businessman and environmentalist Peter Hornbeck has been waiting. Hornbeck is a boat builder in Omstedville, in Essex County.  Last year, Governor David Paterson appointed him to sit on the Adirondack Park Agency’s board of commissioners.But his track record as a conservationist sparked opposition from local government groups and from Republican state Senator Betty Little. Little convinced Democrats in the Senate to delay Hornbeck’s confirmation.  Once again last week, a key committee left his appointment on the shelf.Now Governor Paterson is leaving office and Republicans appear to have won a new majority in the Senate. After all those months, Hornbeck’s bid to sit on the APA board appears to have reached a dead end. On Friday, Hornbeck told Brian Mann that he’s been in a kind of political limbo, with little information about the process in Albany or what might happen next. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16783/20101206/hornbeck-apos-s-park-agency-bid-blocked-likely-dead">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:50</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, adirondacks, environment, economy, little, adirondack park agency, outdoor recreation, boats, boat building, [loc:43.7914527 -73.9843020], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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