{"id":1733,"date":"2010-03-11T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/11\/is-saranac-lake-dying\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:37:00","slug":"is-saranac-lake-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/11\/is-saranac-lake-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Saranac Lake dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First a big red-letter disclosure:  This post involves Saranac Lake, my home village, where my wife Susan is a candidate for village office.  <\/p>\n<p>But Saranac Lake is also my community, so I waded into the fray this week with a <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/511695.html?nav=5041\">guest commentary for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question I asked:  Is Saranac Lake dying?  That&#8217;s the argument being made by some locals, including Harrietstown supervisor Larry Miller.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Republicans running for village office in Saranac Lake laid out their campaign platform last month, they argued that our community is &#8220;on the verge of failure.&#8221; In a letter to the editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Harrietstown Supervisor Larry Miller echoed this claim, writing, &#8220;If the village continues down the current path it is destined for failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That sounds terrifying. Fortunately, this gloomy portrait of Saranac Lake is factually, provably wrong. As a journalist, I have visited, researched and written about small towns for 25 years. Compared with most of rural America &#8211; not just in the Adirondacks or upstate New York &#8211; our village is thriving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussion is drawing a lot of attention at the Enteprise&#8217;s website and I thought readers of the In Box might be interested in checking it out.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aatvny.org\/content\/Generic\/View\/1\">a lot more information about the health of Adirondack communities, here<\/a> where the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages has compiled a fascinating report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a big red-letter disclosure: This post involves Saranac Lake, my home village, where my [&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\/1733"}],"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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}