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<title>Cuomo says tax-free college zones an economic &quot;game changer&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 31, 2013) Governor Andrew Cuomo barnstormed across Upstate New York yesterday, trying to build political support for a new network of tax-free zones around many of the state&apos;s colleges and universities.At least eight SUNY campuses in the North Country would be eligible for the program, from community colleges in Glens Falls and Saranac Lake to larger campuses in Plattsburgh and Canton.One of the governor&apos;s first stops was at the SUNY campus in Plattsburgh, where he argued that this program could be a &apos;game changer&apos; for a regional economy that has been struggling for decades. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22089/20130531/cuomo-says-tax-free-college-zones-an-economic-quot-game-changer-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Clarkson U. junior is also business magnate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 26, 2013) Many 16-year-olds might dream about starting their own business. But it takes a special kind of teenager to turn an operation launched in his parents&apos; basement into a six-figure profit earner in just four years. After succeeding wildly with his web development and design company, North Shore Solutions, Clarkson University junior Matthew Turcotte, now age 20, is embarking on his second venture: commercial real estate. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21503/20130226/clarkson-u-junior-is-also-business-magnate">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>For locals, Cuomo&apos;s presence in Potsdam is what matters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 6, 2013) Governor Cuomo broke little new ground during a stop in Potsdam yesterday.  In a speech at Clarkson University, he revisited the themes of his State of the State message from last month, often word for word.But what mattered most to local leaders is that he was there. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21395/20130206/for-locals-cuomo-apos-s-presence-in-potsdam-is-what-matters">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Potsdam toilets: blight or art? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 25, 2013) Drive through the village of Potsdam and you can&apos;t miss a small plot that&apos;s filled with old toilets. The property owner says it&apos;s art, while village leaders wish it would just disappear. A Clarkson University digital arts professor has used the idea as inspiration for a new exhibit.Todd Moe talks with Clarkson&apos;s Steven Pedersen about Eaux D&apos; Artifice at Creative Spirit Community Arts Center in Potsdam. Pedersen&apos;s show uses video, interactive art, and images based on the public toilet display to explore ideas of place and what it means to make art. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21321/20130125/potsdam-toilets-blight-or-art">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Appreciation day informs vets of benefits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 4, 2013) There are 9,000 U.S. veterans in St. Lawrence County alone - thousands more across the North Country and across the border in Canada.An event this Saturday aims to recognize those veterans&apos; service to their country and also make sure they&apos;re aware of all the benefits they&apos;re entitled to.The North Country Veterans Appreciation Day is tomorrow at Clarkson University from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.Mike Boprey is head of Veterans Services for St. Lawrence County and is one of the event&apos;s organizers. He told David Sommerstein one of the goals is to help veterans stay in the North Country, where job prospects are few. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21187/20130104/appreciation-day-informs-vets-of-benefits">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Heard Up North: &quot;Save a bro, grow a mo&apos;&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 19, 2012) &quot;Movember&quot; is an annual, month-long event where men grow a &quot;mo,&quot; or moustache, as part of a campaign to raise awareness and money for prostate cancer and men&apos;s health initiatives. It started in Australia over a decade ago and has spread throughout the world.The rules are simple: be fully shaved at the start of the month and grow a moustache throughout the month of November. There are many different moustache styles that can be used, from fully-grown to hardly noticeable. All moustaches are accepted, no matter how much someone can grow.In that time, millions of men with a desire to do good through facial hair, and the women who support them (the Movember organization calls them &quot;mo bros and mo sistas&quot;) have raised almost $300 million.Movember isn&apos;t as well known in the North Country as in some other places, but at Clarkson University in Potsdam, it&apos;s getting bigger. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21093/20121219/heard-up-north-quot-save-a-bro-grow-a-mo-apos-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Emissions a problem in using grass as fuel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 7, 2012) North Country farmers working with Cornell Cooperative Extension have been raising switchgrass for years. This region is a good one for growing grass. And there&apos;s lots of &quot;marginal&quot; land.Switchgrass looks like a promising crop...and source of heat. But other research here shows there&apos;s a big problem with burning switchgrass pellets for heat: emissions, namely carbon monoxide. Mike Newtown teaches in the energy technology department at SUNY Canton. He says grass pellets will emit between 1,000 to 15,000 parts per million of carbon monoxide—he says about 35 parts per million of Carbon Monoxide gas would be acceptable. Working with colleagues at Clarkson University, Newtown&apos;s been researching how well switchgrass burns. They found that the pellets can be a good source of heat, measured in British Thermal Units or BTUs—but as it turns out, switchgrass just doesn&apos;t burn that well. Not nearly as well as cord wood, to name another native biofuel. Grass, he says, is just different. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21028/20121207/emissions-a-problem-in-using-grass-as-fuel">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Former marketing consultant calls social media &quot;B.S.&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 5, 2012) There&apos;s no avoiding social media these days—even if you&apos;re not on the internet, TV commercials urge you to like companies on Facebook or follow them on Twitter, newscasters read influential people&apos;s tweets on the air, and if you&apos;re not on Facebook, well, you&apos;re in for a lot of funny looks. If you run a business or an organization, pressure to have an active social media &quot;presence&quot; can be intense—but the benefits you actually get from that presence may not be anywhere near as huge as what you were led to expect. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20967/20121205/former-marketing-consultant-calls-social-media-quot-b-s-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Clarkson prof works to modernize NY state&apos;s energy grid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 27, 2012) Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced New York would invest $250 million to develop smart grid technologies to modernize the state&apos;s energy grid. IBM has just awarded a Clarkson University professor working on smart energy grid systems a $10,000 grant to help him continue his research, and develop coursework for students to train the next generation to use this hot technology. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20959/20121127/clarkson-prof-works-to-modernize-ny-state-apos-s-energy-grid">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>ADK leaders seek telecommuters inside Blue Line</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 9, 2012) &quot;Forever Wild&quot; is the term in New York&apos;s constitution that describes state forest preserves in the Adirondacks, and community leaders in and around the park are also using that term to inform their vision for economic development. Their slogan, and the name of a conference held annually at Clarkson University in Potsdam, is &quot;Forever Wired.&quot; At  the fourth conference,  they continued a push to expand broadband internet access, and economic opportunity, in the Adirondacks. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20630/20121009/adk-leaders-seek-telecommuters-inside-blue-line">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Collins: regional economic council working</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 3, 2012) The North Country Regional Economic Development Council has emerged as one of the most influential groups shaping economic activity in the region.The Council was created last year by Governor Andrew Cuomo. It helped direct more than $100 million of state aid to companies and non-profits — from the Bombardier plant in Plattsburgh to a new energy project at Fort Drum.But the councils, which are made up entirely of volunteers, have also sparked controversy. The group has backed costly railroad projects in southern St. Lawrence County and in the central Adirondacks that some critics say have questionable economic value.Brian Mann spoke recently with Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country&apos;s council and president of Clarkson University in Potsdam. Collins says the organization has already established a strong track record, helping to fund projects that are sparking new jobs and investment. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20596/20121003/collins-regional-economic-council-working">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>North Country Children&apos;s Museum starts with traveling exhibit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 25, 2012) The North Country Children&apos;s Museum is slated to open its doors in the fall of 2015. But organizers aren’t waiting three years to start reaching out to their potential audience. They’re on the road with a traveling exhibit this summer, visiting festivals and conferences with what they call their museum without walls. Jasmine Wallace ran across the robot zone booth in the middle of the busy, noisy Potsdam Summer festival earlier this month. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20189/20120725/north-country-children-apos-s-museum-starts-with-traveling-exhibit">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Moving the world:  from child soldier to community servant </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 10, 2012) In our occasional series, Moving the World, we meet people who share their skills, expertise and resources with communities around the globe. Ricky Richard Anywar has survived his share of trouble. At 14, he was abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced into slavery as a child soldier. His family was killed by the LRA. But Anywar escaped two years later. Despite what he calls an “interrupted childhood,” he earned a college degree. That led to work with the Ugandan Ministry of Education. For more than 10 years he has worked to give back to his native Uganda by empowering and reintegrating former child soldiers.Anywar is founder and executive director of “Friends of Orphans,” or FRO, which pays the school fees for former child soldiers and young mothers. It runs vocational programs, counseling groups, and HIV/AIDS clinics. Clarkson University is working with FRO to help establish a community-based radio station. A group of Clarkson business students visited Uganda and the site for the proposed radio station in May.Todd Moe spoke with Ricky Richard Anywar last week during his visit to Clarkson. He was on campus to speak to students and faculty about rebuilding war-ravaged northern Uganda. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20112/20120710/moving-the-world-from-child-soldier-to-community-servant">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Potsdam considers police force size</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 22, 2012) The Potsdam Village Board opened a public discussion on the size of the police force last night. Two positions have remained unfilled since one sergeant resigned last year, and another was promoted to chief. That’s prompted questions about how big a police force the village needs. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19861/20120522/potsdam-considers-police-force-size">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Creating healthier food cultures in schools, communities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 14, 2012) Amy Cotler is an author, chef and local food advocate, who says it&apos;s an exciting time for the locavore movement, but more needs to be done.  Cotler is author of the book, The Locavore Way, which focuses on the pleasures of locally grown food.  On Monday, she&apos;ll give the keynote address at Dig In!, a food and gardening conference at Clarkson University in Potsdam.  The event will bring together school staff, educators, parents, business owners, community leaders and health professionals.  Amy Cotler told Todd Moe that most schools, businesses and places of worship are doing a good job of developing and sustaining effective local food-based policies and practices, but, she says, they&apos;re just &quot;scratching the surface&quot;. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19492/20120314/creating-healthier-food-cultures-in-schools-communities">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Diversity expert among critics of NYPD surveillance of Muslim students</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 27, 2012) New York civil rights advocates want a meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo following a decision by the attorney general&apos;s office not to investigate the New York Police Department over its monitoring of Muslim students following the Sept. 11 attack.The Associated Press reports that in a letter yesterday, the New York Civil Rights Coalition refuses to accept the decision by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Schneiderman&apos;s office said there were legal obstacles that prevented the probe.The coalition writes that the governor must direct state authorities to investigate the surveillance.The Associated Press reported last week that the New York Police Department kept close watch on websites and blogs maintained by Muslim student associations across the northeast U.S., including at SUNY Potsdam and Clarkson University.  The surveillance reportedly took place in 2006 and 2007. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has faced a firestorm of criticism. But he continues to defend the police department, saying the city needs to be vigilant against terrorism.Susan Stebbins is an anthropology professor at SUNY Potsdam. She’s also special assistant to the president for diversity. The surveillance reportedly took place in 2006 and 2007. But Stebbins tells Julie Grant the college is just finding out about it now. (NCPR did request an interview with the New York Police Department, but didn&apos;t hear back for this story.) [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19376/20120227/diversity-expert-among-critics-of-nypd-surveillance-of-muslim-students">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Scozzafava delivers Cuomo message</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 10, 2012) Dede Scozzafava, Deputy Sec. Of State and former North Country Assemblywoman, was in St. Lawrence County yesterday. She&apos;s part of the team of top staffers sent out to deliver what the governor’s office called “regional State of the State Messages.”Scozzafava spoke at Clarkson University. She stopped in the North Country Public Radio studios on her way. She spoke with Martha Foley regional economic development councils, the proposed “energy highway,” and relief for local governments struggling to pay for expensive state-mandated services. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19092/20120110/scozzafava-delivers-cuomo-message">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Financial expert criticizes economics of shale gas exploration</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 16, 2011) Drilling companies have been criticizing New York for delaying permits to drill for gas in the state’s underground shale formations.  The Department of Environmental Conservation says it is still considering regulations, and might not issue permits until 2013.  Deborah Rogers is glad New York is asking questions before allowing this type of drilling.  Rogers has become a leading critic of the economics of shale gas exploration.  She’s an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas.  Rogers spoke Tuesday night at Clarkson University, and earlier in the day with Julie Grant. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18774/20111116/financial-expert-criticizes-economics-of-shale-gas-exploration">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Voters shake up local leadership, incumbents ousted or vulnerable from Ogdensburg to Lake George</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 9, 2011) The city of Watertown returned incumbent mayor Jeff Graham for another term last night.  And in Ogdensburg the race is still too close to call with city Mayor Bill Nelson, a Republican, holding on to a nine-vote lead over challenger Jack McGrath, an independent. But in much of the North Country, voters ushered in big changes in local leadership yesterday.In Potsdam, Clarkson professor Steven Yurgartis will take the helm as mayor after defeating Republican Sharon Hutchinson by a wide margin. From Malone to Lake George, more than a dozen incumbents were either defeated or chose not to seek re-election.  Brian Mann has our story. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18735/20111109/voters-shake-up-local-leadership-incumbents-ousted-or-vulnerable-from-ogdensburg-to-lake-george">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>NC Economic Development Council to vet draft plan Friday</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18705/20111103/nc-economic-development-council-to-vet-draft-plan-friday</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 3, 2011) Monday was the deadline for businesses and others who want a share of state money from the 10 new regional economic development councils. The councils, including the North Country Regional Economic Development Council, are now approaching a deadline of their own. Their plans are due in Albany Nov. 14. The state will choose the four plans it likes best. Those regions will get $40-million dollars for their “priority projects.”  The money is specifically focused on shovel-ready building projects and new business ventures.Friday, the North Country Council will hold its first meeting since publicly releasing its draft plan last week.  But so far, the draft doesn’t outline the region’s priority projects, and that uncertainty has led to some criticism of the council.Julie Grant spoke with co-chair Tony Collins, who is president of Clarkson University in Potsdam.   He says a council committee will vet 200 to 300 applications before sending their plan to Albany. Julie asked him if the public will see the list of proposed projects this week. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18705/20111103/nc-economic-development-council-to-vet-draft-plan-friday">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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