{"id":4031,"date":"2011-04-06T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:07:16","slug":"morning-read-adirondack-council-keeping-mum-about-apa-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/06\/morning-read-adirondack-council-keeping-mum-about-apa-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Adirondack Council keeping mum about APA favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Alexander is reporting in the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_01dc6f08-5fa0-11e0-a94f-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> about the political maneuvering that is likely to shape Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s picks for the Adirondack Park Agency board.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting detail in the report is that the Adirondack Council, a pro-environment group, says it will now keep mum about who it favors for the commission.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After failing last year to get [Adirondack boatbuilder and environmental activist Peter] Hornbeck through Senate confirmation, the council&#8217;s officials are keeping the names of those they&#8217;d like to see on the APA board quiet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We used to publicize it but we&#8217;ve decided that it doesn&#8217;t help those on the list so much,&#8221; Sheehan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it was a Democratic governor and Democratic Senate, we wouldn&#8217;t have to go to these lengths to keep it quiet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Jon notes, this will be state Senator Betty Little&#8217;s biggest opportunity to reshape the APA commission, with five seats up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Environmental Conservation Committee, she serves as a kind of gatekeeper for appointees, who need Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Alexander is reporting in the Glens Falls Post Star about the political maneuvering that [&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":[22,5583,5614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031"}],"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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}