{"id":1879,"date":"2010-04-23T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/23\/evidence-that-the-albany-trough-is-really-drying-up\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T11:59:00","slug":"evidence-that-the-albany-trough-is-really-drying-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/23\/evidence-that-the-albany-trough-is-really-drying-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that the Albany trough is really drying up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=924493&amp;category=STATE\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting today that the amount spent on lobbying actually declined last year.  Fewer scraps to fight for?  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s only the second time that lobbying expenditures have fallen since the state started keeping records in 1978. The other drop came between 1999 and 2000, when expenditures went from $72 million to $66 million.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the drop was attributed to a bad economy in 2009, say observers &#8212; including some lobbyists. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting today that the amount spent on lobbying actually declined last [&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\/1879"}],"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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}