{"id":2860,"date":"2010-10-04T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2010-10-04T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:49:11","slug":"morning-read-new-yorks-property-tax-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/04\/morning-read-new-yorks-property-tax-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: New York&#8217;s Property Tax Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/propertytaxes\/new-yorks-property-tax-nightmare\/224\/\">The Albany Times Union<\/a> lays out the argument bluntly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Property taxes in New York state  are a confusing, unfair,  labyrinthine disaster. As a result of unfair  and inappropriate tax  burdens, regular folks are losing their homes or  finding themselves  teetering on the brink of financial disaster. And no  one in government  is doing anything to stop to stop the nightmare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article published on-line lays out gripping stories that illustrate how soaring property tax rates are impacting people with low incomes.\u00a0 One example cited is that of Clarence Petty, who lived on Corey&#8217;s Road near Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems as if everybody knew Clarence Petty, the late conservationist  that some called \u201cthe Adirondack man.\u201d Even Hillary Clinton posed for a  picture with him once. But few realized that the man who fought so hard  to preserve the land \u2013 the wilderness of the Adirondacks \u2013 was in fear  of losing his own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/propertytaxes\/adirondacks-clarence-petty\/1\/\">Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times Union lays out the argument bluntly: Property taxes in New York state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860"}],"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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}