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<title>Story 2.0:  Power for the US, a changed river for the Cree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 7, 2011) As we’ve been hearing in John Dillon&apos;s report, there is a debate raging over the future of Hydro Quebec’s power projects and their impact on the environment.  Brian Mann has traveled repeatedly to Cree Crounty in northern Quebec, talking with local leaders about the way industrial power projects are changing their villages and the landscape.This morning as part of our series Story 2.0, we’ll revisit his report from 2007. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17262/20110307/story-2-0-power-for-the-us-a-changed-river-for-the-cree">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: Are farms really the problem on Lake Champlain?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 2, 2010) Lake Champlain is back in the news this week, as politicians from New York, Vermont, and Quebec signed a new compact aimed at cleaning up the lake. Phosphorous pollution has been a growing problem for decades, triggering noxious and potentially toxic algae blooms. A new film about the problem, called Bloom, airs tonight on Mountain Lake PBS.Brian Mann first reported in-depth on this debate in 2007.  In today&apos;s Story 2.0, we revisit Brian’s trip to talk to the major players in the valley. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16763/20101202/story-2-0-are-farms-really-the-problem-on-lake-champlain">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: Job hunting &quot;worse than ever&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 21, 2010) Millions of Americans whose unemployment benefits have run out are breathing a sigh of relief. The Senate is poised to pass legislation today restoring the benefits. The measure would then go to the House for a final vote. It is expected to pass then go on to President Barack Obama later this week.A continuing fear of social services folks is what happens when unemployment benefits do run out.  The jobless rate still hovers around 10%, and that doesn’t include people who have stopped looking for a job out of frustration.  Last December, the staff at One Stop Career Center in Canton predicted &quot;a tsunami of job seekers&quot; this year.  It turns out they were right.  In our ongoing series Story 2.0, we&apos;ll revisit the One Stop Career Center.  But first, here&apos;s an excerpt from David Sommerstein’s story from last winter. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16007/20100721/story-2-0-job-hunting-quot-worse-than-ever-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: purple boxes part of losing battle to save ash trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 17, 2010) The purple boxes are up on ash trees again this summer. They’re traps for the emerald ash borer, an invasive bug that has devastated ash stands in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. In this state, the insect’s been confined to western New York. Today we revisit the fight against the emerald ash borer. David Sommerstien has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15825/20100617/story-2-0-purple-boxes-part-of-losing-battle-to-save-ash-trees">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0 - a journalism student finds a job after a long search</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 17, 2010) A Story 2.0 today, where we follow-up with people we’ve reported on in the past.  Last year as a part of our Year of Hard Choices series, we met Sarah Minor, a photojournalism graduate from Syracuse University.  She was living with her parents in St. Lawrence County while looking for a job.  It was 2008 and 2009, the depth of the Recession, and newspapers were laying off reporters and photographers in droves.  She moved to Chicago and got a part-time job with Suburban Life.  The company owns 14 weekly papers in the area.  She adapts print stories for the website, researching sidebar topics and adding links to stories.  And she gets to do the occasional photo shoot.  Last week, Sarah was hired full-time.  She spoke with David Sommerstein during one of her first morning commutes as a full-time worker. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15655/20100517/story-2-0-a-journalism-student-finds-a-job-after-a-long-search">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>STORY 2.0:  After A year of Hard Choices, checking in on the region?s economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 4, 2010) North Country Public Radio kicked off its “Year of Hard Choices” look at the impact of the Great Recession last year with a conversation with economist Greg Gardener.Gardner has been a student of the North Country economy since coming to the region over 15 years ago. He teaches at SUNY Potsdam. He and his wife live outside Watertown. He says the year looked about like he had thought it would…unemployment is up, there’s been pressure on the private sector, but the region had an OK tourism year…”we got leaned on hard,” he said, but it wasn’t catastrophic.But Gardner told Martha Foley there was a troubling erosion of what’s traditionally been the region’s buffer against hard times. Public sector jobs: from prisons to schools to local government. They’re threatened, and hurts the North Country. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15610/20100504/story-2-0-after-a-year-of-hard-choices-checking-in-on-the-region-s-economy">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  Iraqi?s struggle to reach Winter Olympics leads through Lake Placid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 8, 2010) Iraq has never sent an athlete to the Winter Olympics. Back in 2005, before the games in Torino, Italy, Brian Mann profiled skeleton sled racer Faisal Gazi Faisal, from Baghdad.  Once again this year, Faisal is fighting to win a berth at next month’s Winter Games in Vancouver.  Brian caught up with him in Lake Placid and found that his struggles and setbacks have mirrored the turmoil back home in Iraq. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15049/20100108/story-2-0-iraqi-s-struggle-to-reach-winter-olympics-leads-through-lake-placid">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: In prolonged time of need, food bank still provides</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 10, 2009) As the unemployment rate in much of the North Country remains just under 10%, more families are struggling to put food on the table.  Thousands of people live with food insecurity - that means at some point, they don&apos;t know where their next meal will come from.  Demand at the region&apos;s food pantries and kitchens is up.  But the Food Bank of Central NY says it&apos;s been planning for this kind of crisis for years, and it&apos;s still ready and able to fill the demand.  Todd Moe and David Sommerstein revisit a story from 2008. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14868/20091210/story-2-0-in-prolonged-time-of-need-food-bank-still-provides">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: heating oil prices less volatile</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 8, 2009) This morning, in our Story 2.0 series, we’ll update the cost of home heating oil. In the North Country, the price per gallon is hovering around 2.50, a little lower than 2005 through 2007. That&apos;s a relief to homeowners, and their suppliers. Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14302/20090908/story-2-0-heating-oil-prices-less-volatile">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  Lake George bat cave nearly depopulated by &apos;white nose syndrome&apos;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 18, 2009) State Conservation biologist Al Hicks says the old Graphite Mine in the town of Hague near Lake George has seen its population of Little Brown Bats nearly wiped out. Hicks spoke over the weekend at a gathering of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy in Newcomb. He said the hibernaculum, which sits in a Nature Conservancy Preserve, has been infected by a deadly bat disease called &quot;white nose syndrome.&quot;&quot;The Graphite Mine was the largest Little Brown colony counted in the world, with about 200,000 animals,&quot; Hicks said.  &quot;Our guess walking through was that there was about 3,000 animals left.&quot;Hicks first raised the alarm about white nose syndrome in 2007.  He said the latest research indicates that the disease continues to spread in all directions. &quot;We have not seen any clear evidence yet of any kind of resistance,&quot; he added.  &quot;The animals that are surviving from one year to the next appear to be animals that simply got lucky and didn&apos;t get infected.&quot; White nose is now killing bats in at least nine states.  Hicks predicted that under the worst case scenario &quot;an entire order of mammals&quot; would be wiped out from the United States.As part of our Story 2.0 series, we revisit Hicks&apos; trip to Aeolus Cave in Vermont last winter. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14178/20090818/story-2-0-lake-george-bat-cave-nearly-depopulated-by-apos-white-nose-syndrome-apos">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  A family farm stays true to its mission</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 17, 2009) Today we give you another installment in our “Story 2.0” series, where we revisit a story from the NCPR news archives.  This time, we check in with Ray and Stephanie Hill and their small dairy farm in West Potsdam.  Here’s an excerpt from a May 2008 story by reporter Kinna Ohmann. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14173/20090817/story-2-0-a-family-farm-stays-true-to-its-mission">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: the hows and whys of ash borer research</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 22, 2009) New York scientists have been on the alert for the Emerald ash borer since it appeared in Michigan in  2002. Gregory Warner went to the Syracuse in 2005 to track the beetle with DEC researchers. In our latest Story 2.0, here’s what he found out about how they were looking for the beetle, and more on why they’re worried. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13808/20090622/story-2-0-the-hows-and-whys-of-ash-borer-research">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A Year of Hard Choices: Checking in with the Carpenters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 24, 2009) Yesterday in the first installment of our Year of Hard Choices series, we heard economics professor Greg Gardner say manufacturing jobs have been the early victims of the recession in the North Country.  General Motors in Massena and Covidien in Watertown are shutting down entirely.  Alcoa and New York Air Brake have laid off workers.  Corning halved its workforce in 2008.  That means hundreds of people around the North Country can no longer rely on a steady wage.  They’ll spend less at stores, theaters, restaurants, and car dealerships.  Their lean times trickle down to local businesses, which may then suffer layoffs of their own.  Sharlene Carpenter got her pink slip from Corning in late December, just a few months after her husband, Randy, lost his job at a local pallet mill.  For today’s installment in our Year of Hard Choices series, we check back with Sharlene and Randy Carpenter at their home in Heuvelton.  As David Sommerstein reports, their time off of work hasn’t been so bad, but tough choices loom ahead. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13215/20090324/a-year-of-hard-choices-checking-in-with-the-carpenters">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: Making pellets from switchgrass</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 11, 2009) The federal stimulus package and President Obama’s budget provides billions dollars for green energy, including a 6 billion dollar loan guarantee program for renewables and biofuels.  On a much smaller scale, an innovative biofuels project is making headway in the North Country.  In our Story 2.0 series, we catch up with dairy farmer Tom Lee, who&apos;s making pellets from switchgrass grown on marginal farmland. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13142/20090311/story-2-0-making-pellets-from-switchgrass">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: kosher plant closed for lack of cleanliness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 24, 2009) Last Friday, state agriculture agents shut down the kosher cheese plant in Ogdensburg.  Agents seized more than 25,000 pounds of cheese deemed unfit for human consumption because of high bacteria levels.  The agency is trying to find out where that cheese was sold.  The plant was run by a California company, Ahava, which filed for bankruptcy.  But it&apos;s owned by the city of Ogdensburg, after its former owner failed to pay water and sewer bills.  The city wants to give the plant a new life, so it can save its 80 jobs and milk contracts for farmers.  For our Story 2.0 series, David Sommerstein reports on the plant&apos;s history, and its future. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13045/20090224/story-2-0-kosher-plant-closed-for-lack-of-cleanliness">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0:  Avian flu pandemic still a risk, as public attention wanes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 18, 2009) A scientist at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake will receive $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue studying the effects of aging on vulnerability to the influenza virus. The Trudeau Institute is one of the leading infectious-disease laboratories in the world.  Six years ago, researchers first started raising alarms when a dangerous strain of influenza known as &quot;avian&quot; or &quot;bird flu&quot; first started killing people in Asia.  Since then, the threat of a flu pandemic has dropped off the front pages.Last week, lawmakers in Washington cut more than $800 million from the Federal stimulus bill that had been slated for influenza research.  But scientists say the threat of bird flu is as great as ever.  People are still dying in Asia and researchers still haven&apos;t perfected a vaccine.  This morning, Brian Mann revisits the influenza issue, as part of a series we call Story 2.0. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13009/20090218/story-2-0-avian-flu-pandemic-still-a-risk-as-public-attention-wanes">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: drunk driving still problem at Fort Drum</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 11, 2009) Last year, Fort Drum began posting the names and photos of soldiers who were arrested for drunk driving while intoxicated in the post newspaper.  The unusual step was taken by Drum’s commanding general when he was alerted to high DWI rates among his soldiers.  Today, Major General Michael Oates says the situation has not improved.  He’s taken another unusual step: asking his troops for answers on his blog.  Martha Foley and David Sommerstein revisit this story for our series, Story 2.0. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12960/20090211/story-2-0-drunk-driving-still-problem-at-fort-drum">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: Governor Paterson wants to change the Rockefeller drug laws</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 9, 2009) The governor&apos;s State of the State Address this week triggers our latest installment of Story 2.0.  It&apos;s a new series, revisiting stories that North Country Public Radio has covered in the past. Martha Foley and Brian Mann revisit New York&apos;s Rockefeller-era drug sentencing policies, and how coming change may impact the prison system. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12759/20090109/story-2-0-governor-paterson-wants-to-change-the-rockefeller-drug-laws">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: CITGO to suspend free fuel to Akwesasne?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 7, 2009) A piece of news yesterday brings us the next installment of our new series, “Story 2.0”.  We’re revisiting stories from the North Country Public Radio archive to see what’s happened since.  CITGO, the U.S. branch of the national oil company of Venezuela, is stopping shipments of free heating oil for poor families in America’s cities.  That word came yesterday from the non-profit organization that distributes the fuel.  CITGO also donates free heating oil to native tribes, including the Akwesasne Mohawks.  The company has given away $1.5 million in heating oil to Mohawk families.  David Sommerstein was there in 2006 when CITGO began the program, sparking some geopolitical controversy. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12741/20090107/story-2-0-citgo-to-suspend-free-fuel-to-akwesasne">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story 2.0: pursuing a deer disease, and those who ate the venison chili</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 5, 2009) To kick off the new year, we begin a new occasional series.  It’s called Story 2.0.  We’ll review stories our news team has filed in the past.  Then we’ll follow up with the people we interviewed to find out what’s happened since.  Today, chronic wasting disease.  The fatal deer disease was discovered in two wild deer in Oneida County in April 2005.  It was the first time it had been found east of Illinois.  Wildlife officials were worried the disease would spread throughout the deer herd in New York and the Northeast.  But so far, no new cases have been found.  Chronic wasting disease has no known effect on people.  All the same, it rattled some when it was discovered that one of the contaminated deer was served at the Verona Fire Department’s sportsmen’s dinner.  David Sommerstein traveled to Verona for our story back in 2005.  He updates the story with Martha Foley. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12721/20090105/story-2-0-pursuing-a-deer-disease-and-those-who-ate-the-venison-chili">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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