{"id":3303,"date":"2010-11-29T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:33:40","slug":"morning-read-2-albany-wants-to-accelerate-state-downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/29\/morning-read-2-albany-wants-to-accelerate-state-downsizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read 2: Albany wants to accelerate state downsizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special legislative session gets underway today in Albany.\u00a0 A top priority for the Democratic Paterson administration is eliminating a state law that requires the administration to give one-year&#8217;s notice before closing state facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuomo administration supports the change, but many Republican lawmakers don&#8217;t.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/521689\/Bill-would-kill-mandatory-year-s-notice-of-state-facility-closures.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise&#8217;s Nathan Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The one-year notification allows time for those directly impacted, the  employees and their families to anticipate and plan for the change,&#8221; Dan  Mac Entee, spokesman for state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury, said on  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It provides local communities that will lose a lot of  economic activity time to plan. There&#8217;s a ripple effect impacting  schools, local businesses, volunteer organizations that shouldn&#8217;t be  overlooked or disregarded.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>North Country economic development leaders worry that Cuomo could target more state prisons, and perhaps even slash budgets at Sunmount in Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special legislative session gets underway today in Albany.\u00a0 A top priority for the Democratic [&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":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303"}],"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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}