{"id":235,"date":"2008-11-11T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/11\/can-america-or-the-north-country-afford-a-fresh-start\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:51:00","slug":"can-america-or-the-north-country-afford-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/11\/can-america-or-the-north-country-afford-a-fresh-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Can America (or the North Country) afford a FRESH START?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re talking this week about new directions for the country and the North Country following last week&#8217;s historic elections.<\/p>\n<p>A recurrent question is:  Can we afford it?  With the economic crisis apparently deepening, can our society think big about its future?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Bill McKibben asks in today&#8217;s interview on NCPR.  And here&#8217;s a comment left by a reader here on The Ballot Box:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am wondering what impact the &#8220;fresh start&#8221; in the State Senate, and resulting Democratic Party dominance of state government, will have on the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>You have discussed speculation on this before, but now that the Dems are in control, how likely are resources we once received to diverted downstate, and with what results?<\/p>\n<p>This especially worrying in view of the current economic crisis in NYS government.  Sorry to be a bummer, but regionally, that is the big issue with me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think these are fair questions.  This is a hopeful time for many people, but it&#8217;s also a frightening time. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Are there new ideas that can move our communities forward?  Leave  a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re talking this week about new directions for the country and the North Country following [&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\/235"}],"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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}