{"id":4276,"date":"2011-05-22T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:54:46","slug":"sunday-opinion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/22\/sunday-opinion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s commencement day for graduates of St. Lawrence Universityand SUNY Potsdam. universities. They&#8217;re getting advice, respectively,\u00a0 from NBC newsman Tom Brokaw, and Art Schoer, a Potsdam alum who&#8217;s a founder of the Actor&#8217;s Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0201_editorials\/x57646572\/Editorial-Economic-diversification-needed\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> has advice for the Akwesasne Mohawks: diversify the reservation economy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We aren&#8217;t judging the morality issues involved in the heavy dependence  on gaming and cigarette revenue. This is a business issue, and the  economy would be stronger if the tribe had more major income producers  to provide income and jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/article_4fc8c7a6-840e-11e0-aa7c-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> is continuing an exit poll taken as people emerged from voting on school budgets Tuesday. The picture won&#8217;t be much better, if any, for schools next year, the paper says, &#8220;Next year could be even worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It urges people to start setting longterm priorities for their schools now, and asked voters which three (of12) NON-mandated offerings they&#8217;d save:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember, you only get three: Enrichment programs (K-8); variety of elective course offerings (grades 9-12); art programs (beyond mandates); music programs (beyond mandates); foreign languages (beyond mandates); class sizes; interscholastic athletics; extracurricular clubs and activities; classroom technology upgrades; field trips; staff development to improve teaching and learning; and advanced academic programming (AP courses, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Tough one, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are you telling YOUR school board?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s commencement day for graduates of St. Lawrence Universityand SUNY Potsdam. universities. They&#8217;re getting advice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5687],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}