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<title>A Year of Hard Choices:  Is this the perfect time to open a new business?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 25, 2009) This morning we continue our series &quot;A Year of Hard Choices.&quot;  Last year, the North Country lost more than 1700 jobs, according to the New York Department of Labor.  The national headlines these days are full of lay-offs, bankruptcies and government bail-outs.  But down in the trenches of America&apos;s struggling economy, thousands of entrepreneurs are opening new businesses, rolling out new products and even hiring new workers.  Brian Mann has our profile of four people in this region who decided to take the plunge. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13831/20090625/a-year-of-hard-choices-is-this-the-perfect-time-to-open-a-new-business">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>For one non-profit exec, a year of hard (and scary) choices</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 6, 2009) Non-profits make up one of the biggest chunks of the North Country economy, providing jobs and services to thousands of people. But NGOs have been slammed by the deepening recession, as foundations and governments closed the tap on grants and other funding. Today as part of our Year of Hard Choices series, Brian Mann talks with Michael Washburn. Washburn has led the Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks for the last year. But he’s engineered a merger of the RCPA with another green group and plans to leave the organization by the end of the summer. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13494/20090506/for-one-non-profit-exec-a-year-of-hard-and-scary-choices">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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