{"id":5654,"date":"2012-03-08T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2012-03-09T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:25:25","slug":"the-honorable-member-of-congress-from-north-country-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/08\/the-honorable-member-of-congress-from-north-country-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The honorable member of Congress from North Country Public Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Queesnbury Congressman Gerald Solomon used to proudly accept the moniker of &#8220;&#8216;the Congressman from General Electric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2012\/03\/will-ncpr-have-its-own-congressional.html\">Adirondack Almanack, Mark Wilson<\/a> is asking &#8212; tongue firmly in cheek &#8211;whether NCPR will soon &#8220;have its own Congressional district&#8221; under a new redistricting plan released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson points out that the proposed 21st congressional district closely matches the broadcast area of North Country Public Radio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, the maps  are so closely aligned, one would be hard-pressed to find another  Congressional district (not counting Vermont and other single district  states) where a single broadcaster has such identical and unrivaled  coverage.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this convergence of maps raises a  clear question to Bill Owens, Matt Doheny and (potentially) Doug  Hoffman: Is your membership paid up?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to make a joke about Super PACs and this month&#8217;s big NCPR membership drive&#8230;but no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2012\/03\/will-ncpr-have-its-own-congressional.html\">Check out Mark&#8217;s NCPR-NY21 map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Queesnbury Congressman Gerald Solomon used to proudly accept the moniker of [&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":[6550,20,4877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654"}],"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=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}