Morning, folks.\u00a0 Here’s the morning editorial recon for the North Country region.<\/p>\n
Adirondack Daily Enterprise publisher Cathering Moore was in the audience last week for the Big Tupper resort hearings.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, she published a commentary<\/a> urging the state to permit the project and asking the environmental groups to bow out.<\/p>\n By fighting to kill the ACR project, you will be killing their community, killing their economy, but mainly killing their hope for the future. If you feel, in all good conscience, that you can do this and it feels good in your gut, then there is a bigger problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is noting that Americans are living longer than ever.\u00a0 Kind of surprising, right, when all we hear day in and day out is gloom-and-doom stories about our country and world?<\/p>\n One wrinkle though, as the newspaper notes, is that some of us have it much better than others.<\/p>\n There are disparities, too: white males live an average of 75.7 years; black males, 70.9 years.<\/p>\n [Ralph Sacco, president of the American Heart Association] said: “The continuing differences between blacks and whites also highlight the need to more effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases and stroke among African- Americans.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n