{"id":1119,"date":"2009-10-08T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/08\/more-on-shrinking-the-north-countrys-big-government\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:29:00","slug":"more-on-shrinking-the-north-countrys-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/08\/more-on-shrinking-the-north-countrys-big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"More on shrinking the North Country&#8217;s big government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how Queensbury supervisor Dan Stec described it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/08\/news\/local\/doc4acd1e2ae8d04191826016.txt\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are not going to close this budget gap without breaking some eggs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The newspaper is reporting today on Warren County&#8217;s plan to ax seventeen jobs in the next budget &#8212; and to slash funding to non-profits that draw income from the county.<\/p>\n<p>Total savings:  $920,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Post Star&#8217;s article provides another great snapshot of how the region&#8217;s government-heavy economy is being reshaped by the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Governor David Paterson also announced a plan this week to slash $500,000,000 from state programs, with SUNY campuses and state prisons taking the biggest hit. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Necessary belt-tightening?  Inevitable?  Or a dangerous blow to a region with unemployment already in double digits?<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how Queensbury supervisor Dan Stec described it to the Glens Falls Post Star: &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}