{"id":5283,"date":"2012-01-04T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:42:00","slug":"andrew-cuomo-takes-a-bow-are-we-applauding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/04\/andrew-cuomo-takes-a-bow-are-we-applauding\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo takes a bow.  Are we applauding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A victory lap.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the basic narrative for today&#8217;s state of the state address, which NCPR will air beginning at 1:25 this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo pushed through a huge raft of reform legislation in his first year.\u00a0 By any measure, it&#8217;s a remarkable slate of accomplishment, especially in Albany &#8212; a state capital once viewed as ungovernable.<\/p>\n<p>One question, of course, is how much pain the Empire state still has to endure as the recession winds to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Siena Research Institute reported yesterday that consumer confidence has finally begun to rally in New York.\u00a0 That could bring higher retail sales, and more economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>But if Cuomo presses for more concessions from public employee unions, he could find himself in a full-scale battle with groups that tend to be allied with the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 How do you rate the governor&#8217;s first year in office?\u00a0 And do you think New York state is on the right track?\u00a0 What do you hope to hear in today&#8217;s speech?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A victory lap.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the basic narrative for today&#8217;s state of the state address, which [&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":[6548,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283"}],"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=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}