{"id":3011,"date":"2010-10-19T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2010-10-19T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:05:56","slug":"dec-memo-describes-bleak-picture-of-a-gutted-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/19\/dec-memo-describes-bleak-picture-of-a-gutted-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"DEC memo describes &#8220;bleak picture of a gutted agency&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/default\/article\/DEC-warns-governor-against-further-cuts-712419.php\">The Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting on an internal memo it acquired that describes the state&#8217;s environmental agency as very nearly dysfunctional because of staff and budget cuts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many of our programs are hanging by a thread. The public would be  shocked to learn how thin we are in many areas,&#8221; it states. &#8220;DEC is in  the weakest position that it has been since it was created 40  years\u00a0ago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the last two years, the Environmental Conservation has been targeted for massive lay-offs, hitting more than 1-in-5 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts have called into question the DEC&#8217;s ability to manage millions of acres of state land in the Adirondacks, as well as other crucial environmental projects statewide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/default\/article\/DEC-warns-governor-against-further-cuts-712419.php\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting on an internal memo it acquired that describes the state&#8217;s [&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":[884,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}