{"id":4132,"date":"2011-04-26T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:11:24","slug":"morning-read-is-gov-cuomo-snubbing-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/26\/morning-read-is-gov-cuomo-snubbing-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Is Gov. Cuomo snubbing the North Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110426\/NEWS03\/304269947\/-1\/news\">The Watertown Times <\/a>is running a story that questions whether our region is being heard and taking a prominent role in the various task forces that Governor Andrew Cuomo has created.\u00a0 The article reaches a pretty bleak conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The marquee task forces and teams that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has  convened to cure some of the state&#8217;s ills will do so without much north  country input.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the task forces \u2014 on Medicare, mandate  relief and agency consolidation \u2014 include no members, out of 73 total,  with a connection to Jefferson, Lewis or St. Lawrence counties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article later qualifies that judgment with a comment from Assemblywoman Addie Russell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not concerned about it, and mainly because of the prominence of  north country officials within his administration and our legislative  delegation,&#8221; said Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, D-Theresa, who  mentioned Dierdre K. Scozzafava and Darrel J. Aubertine, former north  country legislators who won top posts in the Cuomo administration. &#8220;I  wish there was some north country representation, but at the same time I  know we are represented at many levels of state government at this  point.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth commenting that state Senator Betty Little (R-Queensbury), whose district includes a big swath of the North Country, was named to the Governor&#8217;s Mandate Relief task force.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Does the North Country need a clearer voice in the Cuomo administration?\u00a0 Or are we fairly represented?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Times is running a story that questions whether our region is being heard [&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\/4132"}],"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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}