{"id":3476,"date":"2011-01-04T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2011-01-05T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:02:27","slug":"dec-leaderless-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/04\/dec-leaderless-again\/","title":{"rendered":"DEC leaderless again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/51846\/iwanowicz-is-out-other-agencies-lose-top-aides\/\">The Albany Times Union<\/a> is reporting that Governor Andrew Cuomo has accepted the resignation of Peter Iwanowiz, acting head of the Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s an orderly transition,\u201d [Governor Cuomo] said. \u201cWe\u2019re continuing to search and  to look, and we\u2019re looking all across the country to find the best  talent that we can.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He added this to reporter Jimmy Vielkind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising, but the New York State government doesn\u2019t have the  best reputation, and there hasn\u2019t been an actual clamoring of people to  join the administration, and I think you\u2019ll see that change as the  state government regains credibility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DEC took big hits to its budget and staffing levels under Governor David Paterson.\u00a0\u00a0 We should learn soon who will lead the agency, and who will take over as regional directors in Regions 5 and 6 here in the North Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times Union is reporting that Governor Andrew Cuomo has accepted the resignation of [&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\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}